I shall see whether you will submit to an appeal, to which Tullus Hostilius, a Roman king, submitted."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

In truth Wordsworth hardly knows how to be stern, as Dante or Milton was stern; nor has he the note of plangent sadness which strikes the ear in men as morally inferior to him as Rousseau, Keats, Shelley, or Coleridge; nor has he the Olympian air with which Goethe delivered sage oracles.
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley

To him a red knight sends a challenge; I think he wants to fight.
— from The Mediaeval Mind (Volume 1 of 2) A History of the Development of Thought and Emotion in the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor

Miss Herbert was the housekeeper, and Rosalind knew she was at church; but when she tried to explain, the old man shook his head, and taking from his pocket a tablet with a pencil attached, he held it out to her, touching his ear as he uttered the one word "Deaf."
— from Mr. Pat's Little Girl: A Story of the Arden Foresters by Mary Finley Leonard

All I ask of you is to have a regular Kentucky supper for me some night with——but never mind what with, it will be sure to be what I want if Molly cooks it."
— from Molly Brown's Orchard Home by Nell Speed