"Bot it is otherwise of ane tame and dantoned horse; gif any man fulishlie rides, and be sharp spurres compelles his horse to take the water, and the man drownes, the horse sould not be escheit, for that comes be the mans fault or trespasse, and not of the horse, and the man has receaved his punishment, in sa farre as he is perished and dead; and the horse quha did na fault, sould not be escheit.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

I found that during my absence from Hampton the institute each year had been getting closer to the real needs and conditions of our people; that the industrial teaching, as well as that of the academic department, had greatly improved.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Next day the prince did not say a word to his daughter, but she noticed that at dinner he gave orders that Mademoiselle Bourienne should be served first.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I am inglorious and poor, composita paupertate , but I live secure and quiet: they are dignified, have great means, pomp, and state, they are glorious; but what have they with it?
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

It was evident that Madame Danglars was suffering from that nervous irritability which women frequently cannot account for even to themselves; or that, as Debray had guessed, she had experienced some secret agitation that she would not acknowledge to anyone.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He was precocious in all things: at a very early age he would mimic everybody; at five, he would sit at table, and drink his glass of champagne with the best of us; and his nurse would teach him little French catches, and the last Parisian songs of Vade and Collard,—pretty songs they were too; and would make such of his hearers as understood French burst with laughing, and, I promise you, scandalise some of the old dowagers who were admitted into the society of his mamma: not that there were many of them; for I did not encourage the visits of what you call respectable people to Lady Lyndon.
— from Barry Lyndon by William Makepeace Thackeray

As these all contained alcohol, or some other stimulant, she found that they all did her good while she took them; and so she was always chasing the phantom of good health, and losing it because she was too poor to continue.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Wherein the end of everything doth consist, therein also doth his good and benefit consist.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

In the second place, he knew that without system, the exertions of the men would be in vain; but the admirable directions he gave employed every man in what he was best able to perform without impeding his neighbour, whilst every part of the labour advanced simultaneously.
— from Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez, Vol. I by Ross, John, Sir

By this time all discipline had gone by the board, no one thought of such a thing as office work and, amid the chaos, sailors' councils appeared, with which Koch had to treat.
— from The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 by Henry Baerlein

So far as is known, the report from which they are drawn has gone unchallenged.
— from The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis De Witt Willcox

and when hungry, tired, and dejected, he gave current to his grief, as when I found him in the midst of his heart-breaking sorrow?
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XI.—April, 1851—Vol. II. by Various

The next day a boy burst in, with his face as white as a sheet, and told the terrified Britinnus that a dog had gone mad, had sprung among the hounds, and had bitten not only some of them and some of the farm-cattle, but also Myrtilus, the muleteer, and Hephæstion, the cook, and Hypatius, the footman.
— from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

It fell short, but the action did her good.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

If he got through 'th less 'n six times a day he got off cheap, an' once I got up an' give him a little attention at night.
— from David Harum A Story of American Life by Edward Noyes Westcott