Sleep thou who art born to sleep, or do as thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent with my character.” “Be not angry, master mine,” replied Sancho, “I did not mean to say that;” and coming close to him he laid one hand on the pommel of the saddle and the other on the cantle so that he held his master’s left thigh in his embrace, not daring to separate a finger’s width from him; so much afraid was he of the strokes which still resounded with a regular beat.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

In one or two of his plays, notably in Troilus and Cressida , we are almost painfully conscious of this suppression; we feel an intense intellectual activity, but at the same time a certain coldness and hardness, as though some power in his soul, at once the highest and the sweetest, were for a time in abeyance.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Appellatives which denote a collection of single things are called Collectives : as, turba , crowd ; exercitus , army .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

A MYSTERY O N the evening of Easter Sunday the actual Civil Councillor, Navagin, on his return from paying calls, picked up the sheet of paper on which visitors had inscribed their names in the hall, and went with it into his study.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is my design, if the enemy keep quiet and allow me to take the initiative in the spring campaign, to work all parts of the army together, and somewhat toward a common centre.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It’s th’ sensiblest toy a child can have.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Besides, when the women are at their last prayers, it is to this day a noted saying, that after cheese comes nothing.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

" He brought out a lump of basalt of a considerable size, constructed in the middle so that a cord could be easily attached to it.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The lovers and the children were standing together, all clinging close, not for fear, but for love.
— from The Enchanted Castle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Colours pretty well everywhere, and a few flakes of flour gold, just enough to send the average cheechalko crazy, but no real 'pay' outside of this little gulch.
— from The Magnetic North by Elizabeth Robins

This being a measure of a very extraordinary nature, all the members were ordered to attend the house on the day fixed for the second reading; at the same time all charters, commissions, and authorities, by which any power relative to a military jurisdiction, or the exercise of martial law, had been granted or derived from the crown to the said company, were submitted to the perusal of the members.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Even the sacred mosque of St. Sophia, the ancient Christian church, so long closed against the Christians' feet, now, upon great occasions, again opens its doors to the descendants of its Christian builders.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

She kept the books at a merchant's office, and sometimes they went to a tea-shop and sometimes to a cheap concert.
— from Kit Musgrave's Luck by Harold Bindloss

"They permit the boat to come soe neere as they might ffire directly downe upon her, and soe they alsoe commanded Carver on Board & secured him.
— from Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

to look forward, and Mrs. Lot to look aft—all of these subordinated to a central committee of safety headed by Cleopatra and Calpurnia.
— from The Pursuit of the House-Boat Being Some Further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes, Esq. by John Kendrick Bangs