This is only a transformation of a story still preserved in the Panchatantra .
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

“Not if thou burst,” said he. Profecto non Deum, quern cogitare non possunt, sed semetip pro illo cogitantes, non ilium, sed seipsos, non illi, sed sibi comparant?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

quasi Sirenum scopulos praetervehare , if they like thee not, let them pass; or oppose that which is good to that which is bad, and reject not therefore all.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I kem on the camp just in time to see Splinters pass in his checks, and he wasn't sorry to go either.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

'I have been a liar, and among liars from a little child,' said the girl after another interval of silence, 'but I will take your words.' After receiving an assurance from both, that she might safely do so, she proceeded in a voice so low that it was often difficult for the listener to discover even the purport of what she said, to describe, by name and situation, the public-house whence she had been followed that night.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks; O, if thine eye be not a flatterer, Come thou on my side and entreat for me- As you would beg were you in my distress.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

"Indeed," she pursued, "I positively doubt sometimes, I do assure you, whether while matters are still unsettled, and the sixth or Great Seal still prevails, I may not one day be found lying stark and senseless here, as I have found so many birds!"
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The events which took place in Vienna and Berlin, with their apparently momentous results, only moved me as interesting newspaper reports, and the meeting of a Frankfort parliament in the place of the dissolved Bundestag sounded strangely pleasant in my ears.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

“Well, I certainly think you have treated Roy shamefully,” said Phil in exasperation.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Professor Schneider, in a Latin volume published at Leipsic, in 1788, 46 thus enumerates the qualities of a good falconer: “Sit mediocris staturæ; sit perfecti ingenii; bonæ memoriæ; levis auditu; acuti visûs; homo magnæ vocis; sit agilis et promptus; sciat natare,” &c. &c. Each falconer had his own particular call, but it was generally somewhat like— “Hillo, ho, ho, boy! come, bird, come!”
— from The Ornithology of Shakespeare Critically examined, explained and illustrated by James Edmund Harting

“Well, sir,” said Pat, “I am not quite sure, but I think they call them insinuators .” Kitchener had a hearty laugh.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

she said presently in a trembling voice.
— from Amethyst: The Story of a Beauty by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

I have seen several patients in this disease, of which the following are the circumstances.
— from Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I by Erasmus Darwin