The great thing is to spend the rest of our time cheerfully; but what time?
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The sauces to go with it were unusually varied and delicate—” “Permit me, your Excellency, it seems to me you are not so careful either in the selection of reading matter,” interrupted the first Official, who secured the Gazette again and started to read: “One of the oldest inhabitants of Viatka has discovered a new and highly original recipe for fish soup; A live codfish ( lota vulgaris ) is taken and beaten with a rod until its liver swells up with anger...” The Officials’ heads drooped.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

the Feildses told me that three of the indians whom they pursued swam the river one of them on my horse.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

When these men were about to set sail, the rest of our troops, headed by the alcaldes and regidors of the town of Vera Cruz, repaired to Cortes and begged of him to issue an order that no one should leave the country, an order which both the service of God and his majesty required, declaring that they considered every one merited death who could think of such a thing, surrounded as we were by such numerous enemies, nor could we look upon them in any other light than men who wished to desert their commander and his standard in the midst of battle and in the moment of the greatest danger.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

There are many criteria, derived from its matter as well as its form, showing the recent origin of the tenth book.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

They say that Rizal objected only to a disavowal of Freemasonry, stating that in England, where he held his membership, the Masonic institution was not hostile to the Church.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

So they retired out of the reach of the darts, and did no longer endeavor to hinder the impression of their rams, which, by continually beating upon the wall, did gradually prevail against it; so that the wall already gave way to the Nico, for by that name did the Jews themselves call the greatest of their engines, because it conquered all things.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Then Rachel came in, and in her simple language, repeated it over again—dwelling emphatically on the kick that sent Tibeats rolling over on the ground—whereupon there was a general titter throughout the crowd.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

No family relishes the idea of having porterhouse or sirloin steaks taken right out of their lives, so some other device is necessary, such as a charcoal broiler or the old-fashioned, long-handled broiler held over the fireplace coals or, in winter, those of the furnace.
— from If You're Going to Live in the Country by Thomas H. (Thomas Hamilton) Ormsbee

'Why, then,' said Pyrrhus, 'we will sit down and spend the rest of our time merrily and contentedly.'
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

In the dislike of natives shown by some Europeans there was something to remind one of the American feeling in regard to colour, though of a [Pg 37] much milder type; but I was not prepared for the degree in which the feeling prevailed in reference to Eurasians, though I might have been had I remembered that the slightest tinge of African blood, a tinge to many eyes not perceptible, had been considered in America a fatal taint.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

Long rows of poplars marking the straight highways, clumps of pollard willows scattered around the little meres, snug farm-houses, with kitchen-gardens and brilliant flower-patches dotting the level plain, verdant pastures sweeping off into seemingly infinite distance, where the innumerable cattle seemed to swarm like insects, wind-mills swinging their arms in all directions, like protective giants, to save the country from inundation, the lagging sail of market-boats shining through rows of orchard trees—all gave to the environs of Zutphen a tranquil and domestic charm.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

Here also is a mutilated stone figure supposed to represent one of the Blanchminster ( anglice , Blackmonster) family.
— from Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

And in a spring that rises out of the sea near the shore he was able at last to mingle his waters with those of the one for whom he had lost his godship.
— from A Book of Myths by Jean Lang

Where the grass is longer, the record of some furious gale is permanently fixed—swaths and ripples seeming to roll onward, or to break into green foam.
— from The Log of the Sun: A Chronicle of Nature's Year by William Beebe

Here, seeing the rule of observing the Passover requireth, that it should be eaten with their shooes on their feet, which argueth rather standing than lying upon a bed : it may be demanded, Whether Christ transgressed not against the first Institution thereof, in the manner of his sitting at the table?
— from Moses and Aaron: Civil and Ecclesiastical Rites, Used by the Ancient Hebrews by Thomas Goodwin

Taking the cartridge belt of Jig he shook the revolver out of the holster and pumped a shot into the ground.
— from The Rangeland Avenger by Max Brand