For 'every one having his own' is the great object of government; and the great object of trade is that every man should do his own business.
— from The Republic by Plato

And the Eldest Magician said, ‘I cannot make you play the play you were meant to play, Pau Amma, because you escaped me at the Very Beginning; but if you are not afraid, come up and we will talk about it.’
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

Todo el mundo se apea y se confunde entre la multitud; el millonario va expuesto a ser pisoteado por
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Let us, then, substitute the titles found applied to the Son in the New Testament, to the Father, and observe the effect:— "My Son is greater than I." (John vii.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

So Sir Hugh stepped to the edge of the platform and spoke in a loud clear voice, and thus he said: That each man should shoot seven arrows at the target that belonged to his band, and, of the fourscore yeomen of each band, the three that shot the best should be chosen.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

These three were naturally up to every mischief, so that with one voice, bawling boisterously, "You children of doubtful mothers, have you taken up arms?"
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

In the evening, Montoni sat late, carousing with his guests in the cedar chamber.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

She wished that the earth might stand still, and the paralyzed elements cease from their natural functions, that the progress of time might stop, that the Day of Judgment might come, and that she might thus be brought before an unearthly tribunal, and so escape the intervening shame and misery of any earthly judgment.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The hostess, who was busy in various fizzing and stewing operations over the fire, preparatory to the evening meal, stopped, with a fork in her hand, as Eliza’s sweet and plaintive voice arrested her.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

"I have been to the enchanter Merlin," she said very humbly.
— from The Book of Stories for the Story-teller by Fanny E. Coe

What I had once written I could write again, and if they wished to ensure my silence it must be by more drastic methods.
— from The Power-House by John Buchan

“The fact that you had a thousand dollars, or any large sum about you, and that you recklessly exhibited it in the dining-room of a hotel, was quite enough to excite my suspicions.”
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic

Calvert laid his hand on the elder man's shoulder.
— from Calvert of Strathore by Abbe Carter Goodloe

The men of the East may search the scrolls For sure fates and fame, But the men that drink the blood of God Go singing to their shame.
— from G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study by Julius West

Merrily sounded the cock’s shrill horn, and brightly shone the early morning sun, when a party of young sportsmen set out to the field, armed with their guns and game-bags.
— from The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg Second Edition by Unknown

I do not ask thee to enter my service, or to receive wages, or to do work for me any other than a daughter may.”
— from The Chaplain of the Fleet by James Rice