They live very friendly with the Natives, and have many of them of both Sexes, to be their Grometta ’s, or Servants: The Men are faithful, and the Women so obedient, that they are very ready to prostitute themselves to whomsoever their Masters shall command them.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

It relates to a very remarkable and odd sight, seen by Lewis Thomas Jenkin’s two daughters, described as virtuous and good young women, their father a substantial freeholder; and seen not only by them but by the man-servant and the maid-servant, and by two of the neighbours, viz., Elizabeth David, and Edmund Roger.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Whensoever by some present hard occurrences thou art constrained to be in some sort troubled and vexed, return unto thyself as soon as may be, and be not out of tune longer than thou must needs.
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Odin is also said to have married Saga or Laga, the [ 39 ] goddess of history (hence our verb “to say”), and to have daily visited her in the crystal hall of Sokvabek, beneath a cool, ever-flowing river, to drink its waters and listen to her songs about olden times and vanished races.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

CHAPTER XII THE DIVISION OF THE LAWS If the whole is to be set in order, and the commonwealth put into the best possible shape, there are various relations to be considered.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

though you won’t think THAT a very romantic simile.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

By a contrivance now common, and indeed traceable to a very remote period of antiquity, they were made changeable in aspect.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The air was dense with the fumes of bad tobacco, and vapours reeking of beer and garlic issued from every mouth.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Inconstant they are in all their actions, vertiginous, restless, unapt to resolve of any business, they will and will not, persuaded to and fro upon every small occasion, or word spoken: and yet if once they be resolved, obstinate, hard to be reconciled.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

(I personify them in fictitious shapes, but they are very real.)
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"Sir," said he, viewing the Major with eyes that glittered between languid-drooping lids, "though my—enforced presence here runs counter to certain determined purposes of mine, yet I am so much of a philosopher as to recognise in this the hand of Fate and to find therein a very real satisfaction, for I have long been possessed of a most earnest desire to kill you—as indeed I think I should ha' done years ago but for a slip of the foot."
— from Our Admirable Betty: A Romance by Jeffery Farnol

The Consul called in Ḥájí ‘Alí-‘Askar and told him: “These thieves are very rich.
— from Memorials of the Faithful by `Abdu'l-Bahá

In general terms they may be said to range about as follows: The Comanches , Jetans, or Nauni, consisting of three tribes, the Comanches proper, the Yamparacks, and Tenawas, inhabiting northern Texas, eastern Chihuahua, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Durango, and portions of south-western New Mexico, [636] by language allied to the Shoshone family; [637] the Apaches , who call 474 themselves Shis Inday, or 'men of the woods,' [638] and whose tribal divisions are the Chiricaguis, Coyoteros, Faraones, Gileños, Lipanes, Llaneros, Mescaleros, Mimbreños, Natages, Pelones, Pinaleños, Tejuas, Tontos and Vaqueros, roaming over New Mexico, Arizona, north-western Texas, Chihuahua and Sonora, [639] and who are allied by language to the great Tinneh family; [640] the Navajos , or Tenuai, 'men,' as they designate themselves, having linguistic 475 affinities with the Apache nation, with which indeed they are sometimes classed, living in and around the Sierra de los Mimbres; [641] the Mojaves , occupying both banks of the Colorado in Mojave Valley; the Hualapais , near the headwaters of Bill Williams Fork; the Yumas , on the east bank of the Colorado, near its junction with the Rio Gila;
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Mrs. Winstanley sank into a low basket-chair, like a hall-porter's, which a friend had sent her from the sands of Trouville; and Vixen ran off to the stables to see if Arion was in any way the worse for his long round.
— from Vixen, Volume II. by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

And now, gentlemen," continued the Prince, in a louder tone, and visibly relieved, "lift your glasses to the prosperity of this magnificent regiment, whose officers unite in themselves the best names in the land, and whose subalterns and rank and file present a shining example of the most faithful fulfilment of duty—here's to the regiment.
— from Life in a German Crack Regiment by Baudissin, Wolf Ernst Hugo Emil, Graf von

Then, there are various rooms reserved for the Committee or Royalty; the delightful smoking-room, with its splendid log-filled fireplace and its alcoves and corners; the magnificent dining-hall, characteristically decorated, its walls clothed with Norwegian tapestry of a singularly happy design.
— from Norway by Beatrix Jungman

Quite a large number of people are so constituted as to hear sounds as if colored, a deep tone perhaps seeming dark blue, the sound of a trumpet a vivid red, etc.
— from Psychology: A Study Of Mental Life by Robert Sessions Woodworth

Now having left them a most comfortable dinner, or supper, and which answered for both; with a bottle or two of vin du pays , and some true and veritable Rhenish wine, the warder of the citadel wished his inmates [Pg 87] a good night.
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

I've already written them a very rude letter about Mr. de Morgan's "It Never Can Happen Again."
— from Books and Persons; Being Comments on a Past Epoch, 1908-1911 by Arnold Bennett

For the twenty years in which its spirit ruled, during the reign of Alexander II, the reforms begun under its influence amounted to a veritable revolution.
— from Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. LIX, No. 4, 1914 by Samuel Joseph