72 Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“Doctor,” she went on, “did the sister tell you that M. le Maire has gone to get that mite of a child?” The doctor recommended silence, and that all painful emotions should be avoided; he prescribed an infusion of pure chinchona, and, in case the fever should increase again during the night, a calming potion.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Horrid affair that, wasn’t it?—diamonds, did you say?—terrible wretches those Kickapoos!—we are playing whist , if you please, Mr. Tattle—however, this is the age of invention, most certainly the age, one may say— the age par excellence —speak French?—oh, quite a hero—perfect desperado!—
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I would not that men should refuse, in the employments they take upon them, their attention, pains, eloquence, sweat, and blood if need be: “Non ipse pro caris amicis Aut patria, timidus perire:” [“Himself not afraid to die for beloved friends, or for his country.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

y are z ” may be expressed as the Alternative Proposition “Either some
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Every house is open to them, and provision everywhere set before them."
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

He wrote expositions of many books of the Old Testament, and performed especial service in editing the newly revised Bible in Norwegian, which is now used in the churches of that country.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

* Note: We read in the "Chronicle of the Conquest of Constantinople, and of the Establishment of the French in the Morea," translated by J A Buchon, Paris, 1825, p. 64 that Leo VI., called the Philosopher, had prophesied that a perfidious emperor should be precipitated from the top of this column.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Christian leaned forward: “It must be right to get as near truth as possible; every step gained is something.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

He is but re-echoing the axiom “ Pecunia est sterilis ,” etc., maintained all too long in learned Catholic circles.
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Even the deformities and unfavorable side of Scholasticism, the many absurd questions upon which the Scholastics divided, even their thousandfold unnecessary and accidental distinctions, their inquisitiveness and subtleties, all sprang from a rational principle, and grew out of a spirit of investigation, which could only utter itself in this way under the all powerful ecclesiastical spirit of the time.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

John IX recognized that the emperor was the only one who could prevent these abuses and so enacted that all papal elections should take place in the presence of the emperor’s representatives.
— from A Source Book for Mediæval History Selected Documents illustrating the History of Europe in the Middle Age by Oliver J. (Oliver Joseph) Thatcher

These are the regulations for admission of teachers to all public elementary schools—that is to say, all schools in receipt of a grant from the Education Department, including National, British, Wesleyan, Roman Catholic, and Board Schools.
— from How Women May Earn a Living by Mercy Grogan

The pharmaceutist should always bear in mind that a perfect extract should be a concentrated, solid mass, representing, as near as possible, in medicinal efficacy, the materials from which it has been prepared, and capable of being redissolved, so as to form a solution closely resembling that from which it has been derived.
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume I by Richard Vine Tuson

The results of such sanatorium treatment of heart disease are often evident not only to the patient by an increase of general muscle strength, the ability to do ordinary things and perhaps even sustain muscular effort without dyspnea and cardiac discomfort, but also to the physician by the physical signs.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

Mix these well in a pint of Pine Tar and place about one tablespoonful of the mixture as far back on the tongue as possible every six hours.
— from The Veterinarian by Charles James Korinek

And though his government expires at the end of three, four, or five years, he generally makes a handsome fortune, as all places are in his gift, both in the government and the army throughout all Peru, except such as are sent out or nominated by the king.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 11 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Robert Kerr

Here I've got now so't I kin take a plain, everyday sort o' picture jest about as well as he did—a little streakid sometimes, perhaps, and more or less pinholes—but still pretty middlin' fair on an average, and then, darn my buttons if they don't all stop comin'.
— from Marsena, and Other Stories of the Wartime by Harold Frederic