What I shall think is good?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

He remained there a short time in great favour.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

It suffices to say that in general the school has been the institution which exhibited with greatest clearness the assumed antithesis between purely individualistic methods of learning and social action, and between freedom and social control.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Yet surely this is great folly, since you may retire into yourself at any hour you please.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

The old gentleman would not spend time in getting up, but crawled backwards like a crab, with great speed, till he had got over the threshold, mumbling exorcisms all the way.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

admirable, estimable; praiseworthy &c. (approve) 931; pleasing &c. 829; couleur de rose[Fr], precious, of great price; costly &c. (dear) 814; worth its weight in gold, worth a Jew's eye; priceless, invaluable, inestimable, precious as the apple of the eye. tolerable &c. (not very good) 651; up to the mark, unexceptionable, unobjectionable; satisfactory, tidy. in good condition, in fair condition; fresh; sound &c. (perfect) 650.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

They bestow more than ordinary pains in coating certain parts of their buildings with a kind of earth, so pure and shining that it gives the appearance of painting.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

"How do you know he is a Lascar?" said the Indian gentleman, smiling a little.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

"How we got out of the Slough and through the Wicket Gate by resolving to be good, and up the steep hill by trying; and that maybe the house over there, full of splendid things, is going to be our Palace Beautiful."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Here I was for the rest of time—with nothing to do day after day but housework and sewing and reading, while father sat by the fire, with his little roulette machine and Monte Carlo averages and paper and pencil, working out the wonderful system that is going to make our fortune.
— from Far-away Stories by William John Locke

She thought it grand, and was never tired of hearing her husband tell of his gentle family, the Folyats.
— from Round the Corner Being the Life and Death of Francis Christopher Folyat, Bachelor of Divinity, and Father of a Large Family by Gilbert Cannan

"Be that as it may," said Sancho, "'pledges don't distress a good payer,' and 'he whom God helps does better than he who gets up early,' and 'it's the tripes that carry the feet and not the feet the tripes;' I mean to say that if God gives me help and I do my duty honestly, no doubt I'll govern better than a gerfalcon.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, Part 29 by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

She answered steadily: “He shall never know,” and after another interval Darrow said: “This is good-bye, then.”
— from The Reef by Edith Wharton

On the north side there is good land in two places, where two farmers, each with four horses, would have enough to do without much grubbing or clearing at first.
— from Peter Stuyvesant, the Last Dutch Governor of New Amsterdam by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

I became suddenly aware that I had forgotten to remove the tidy, and retired in confusion, but heard Belle's conclusion of the interview: "Just wait a second till I give you a line to the matron of the House of Refuge.
— from The Making of Mary by Jean N. (Jean Newton) McIlwraith