"I guess he'd have mentioned, if it was," said the old farmer; and he removed his chair back to the corner, leaving Dominicus quite down in the mouth.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

After every meal, during more than an hour, he sipped three or four small glasses of brandy, which stupefied him by degrees, and then his head drooped on his chest, he shut his eyes, and went to sleep.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

From the time that poisoned arrows have been found in Cupid's quiver, an estranging, hostile, nay, devilish element has entered into the relations of men and women, like a sinister thread of fear and mistrust in the warp and woof of their intercourse; indirectly shaking the foundations of human fellowship, and so more or less affecting the whole tenor of existence.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

Whenever any of these grave personages in hoops and high heels used to make their appearance at Hackton, or in Berkeley Square, it was my chief pleasure to frighten them off; and I would make my little Bryan dance, sing, and play the diable a quatre, and aid him myself, so as to scare the old frumps.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

Some five or six miles beyond the landing-place, to the right, was a ruinous Presidio, and some three or four miles to the left was the Mission of Dolores, as ruinous as the Presidio, almost deserted, with but few Indians attached to it, and but little property in cattle.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“So the old fairy led her into the castle, and, though it was still the middle of the night, the Queen could see plainly that it was far more beautiful than she had been told, which you can easily believe, Prince,” said the White Cat, “when I tell you that it was this castle that we are now in.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Note 116 ( return ) [ A drug supposed to ooze from embalmed bodies.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

Ran M. E. Winge The giant’s wife, however, prevailed upon her husband to welcome Tyr and Thor, and he slew three oxen for their refection; but great was his dismay to see the thunder-god eat two of these for his supper.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

Now came in sight, three or four blocks farther on, a heap of something on the track.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Soon after this the fort on Red Bank, (which had bravely repulsed the Enemy a little time before) was avacuated, the Gallies ordered up to Bristol, and the Capts. of such other armed Vessels as thought they could not pass on the Eastward side of Wind mill Island, very precipitately set them on fire.
— from The Life Of Thomas Paine, Vol. 1. (of 2) With A History of His Literary, Political and Religious Career in America France, and England; to which is added a Sketch of Paine by William Cobbett by Moncure Daniel Conway

They will not so much as vouchsafe to inquire whether he speaks true or false; this would be too exact, and by consequence below them.
— from An Architect's Note-Book in Spain principally illustrating the domestic architecture of that country. by Wyatt, M. Digby (Matthew Digby), Sir

For some ten or fifteen minutes the game went on smoothly, nothing but small hands coming out, which produced little betting.
— from The New Boys at Oakdale by Morgan Scott

"I don't know what she is now," said Slade, a slight touch of feeling in his voice—"heart-broken, I suppose.
— from Ten Nights in a Bar Room by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

He had suffered three or four strokes of apoplexy or palsy, and had experienced daily tortures from cramp, rheumatism, and increasing lameness.
— from The Country of Sir Walter Scott by Charles S. (Charles Sumner) Olcott

I might say two only, for formerly there were but five in all, and, for many years past, the secret has been well preserved by the deaths of the principal participators in it.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

The ex-slaves need Christian education and elevation, and we come as Christian brethren and say to our friends at the South: We will take one corner of the mantle of Christian education, if you will take the other, and we will go forward , with our faces lifted to Heaven, and will throw that mantle over the emancipated slaves.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 35, No. 8, August, 1881 by Various

[142] "Extemporaneous," Latin, ex , from; and tempus , time, at the same time, or from the same time.
— from Creation or Evolution? A Philosophical Inquiry by George Ticknor Curtis

"Now, now, my cherished!" said the old French lady, gathering her to her ample bosom, "what is it that has come to you?
— from The Law of the Land Of Miss Lady, Whom It Involved in Mystery, and of John Eddring, Gentleman of the South, Who Read Its Deeper Meaning: A Novel by Emerson Hough