It's apropos of smell, he said, that the stench one perceives here is, so to speak, moral—he-he!
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

[2] The “pepper” again, as pointed out in several other places, here is some spice of agreeable taste as are used in desserts today.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

was at enmity with Agamemnon the Achaeans were easier to deal with, and I would have gladly camped by the ships in the hope of taking them; but now I go in great fear of the fleet son of Peleus; he is so daring that he will never bide here on the plain whereon the Trojans and Achaeans fight with equal valour, but he will try to storm our city and carry off our women.
— from The Iliad by Homer

His coat and shirt, burnt in a score of places, hung in singed fragments round him.
— from Back to Billabong by Mary Grant Bruce

"Calais, Oct. 12th," are the words that now appear on the slip of paper he is scanning.
— from The Transgressors Story of a Great Sin A Political Novel of the Twentieth Century by Francis Alexandre Adams

Dickens is one of the great artists of the world, and he is so, in spite of the fact that in certain spheres, in the sphere of Sex, for instance, or the sphere of Philosophy, he is such a hopeless conventionalist.
— from Visions and Revisions: A Book of Literary Devotions by John Cowper Powys

[318] Some officious pen has indeed stricken out from the MS.
— from History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 by Henry Martyn Baird

Yet he paid him homage; he painted a series of pictures, Hogarthian in subject, and proved to the satisfaction of everybody, one would think, the absolute superiority of Hogarth.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

To reject the recorded evidence on this subject is to reject all human testimony whatever; for no fact in sacred or profane history is supported by a stronger array of proofs.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

To the second Dyson proposed to add, whereby the execution of an Act of the last session of Parliament has in such provinces been defeated .
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

Even in private life how many scores of people have I seen, who, although they roll in wealth, yet deem themselves so poor, there is nothing they will shrink from, neither toil nor danger, in order to add a little to their store.
— from The Symposium by Xenophon