RODRIGUEZ The duke and duchess had no reason to regret the joke that had been played upon Sancho Panza in giving him the government; especially as their majordomo returned the same day, and gave them a minute account of almost every word and deed that Sancho uttered or did during the time; and to wind up with, eloquently described to them the attack upon the island and Sancho's fright and departure, with which they were not a little amused.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Vessons tolerated her presence for the sake of the subacid remarks it enabled him to make, but chiefly because of the sardonic pleasure it gave him to remember how soon his resolve would be put into action.
— from Gone to Earth by Mary Gladys Meredith Webb

She brought her maid with her, and they took some papers I gave her then and there straight on to the bank, I believe.”
— from Spinster of This Parish by W. B. (William Babington) Maxwell

Once she brought a cloud by some expressions of gratitude for my having, as she put it, given her this great opportunity to realize her dream of studying with Pasteur.
— from A Man's World by Albert Edwards

The duke and duchess had no reason to regret the joke that had been played upon Sancho Panza in giving him the government; especially as their majordomo returned the same day, and gave them a minute account of almost every word and deed that Sancho uttered or did during the time; and to wind up with, eloquently described to them the attack upon the island and Sancho’s fright and departure, with which they were not a little amused.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

He mucked five out of every six passes I gave him, too, and the ball wasn’t a bit slippery.
— from The Gold Bat by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

Patty was beside herself at the sight of it, and seizing hold of my prick wanted to suck it, which I did permit for a moment or two, for the sake of the lubrication: then whispering the dear girl what I wanted, she pointed its glistening head to Gertie's fundament, as I seized hold of my aunt's hips and pushed gently.
— from Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and exciting story, and More forbidden fruit; or, Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle by Anonymous

The Rose is, as we know, crowned queen of the flowers, and has her own separate place in the garden; but as the Lily kindly fraternizes with all her sister-flowers, and is easily Queen among the social perennials , I give her the first place in this catalogue of my border favorites.
— from A Garden with House Attached by Sarah Warner Brooks

After a moment, spent perhaps in gathering his thoughts, he started off in a new direction and covered six inches of ground, knocking into every blade of grass and every tiny obstruction on the way.
— from Four in Camp: A Story of Summer Adventures in the New Hampshire Woods by Ralph Henry Barbour

Ironically, as years passed and original sources grew obscure, it became the tendency to attribute scenic papers in great houses to Jackson.
— from John Baptist Jackson: 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut by Jacob Kainen

It would have been more Christian in the first place, and more politic in the second place, if Government had taken measures to prevent any explosion at all.
— from An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Mary Frances Cusack