“Well, I told her that there was no use in her getting dressed before dinner if she was going to wait three hours,” responded Daisy’s mamma.
— from Daisy Miller: A Study by Henry James

Schenden , v. to harm, ruin, disgrace, PP, S, S2, W2, S3; shenden , PP, C2, H; scenden , S; ssende , S2; sende , S; shende , pt. s. , S; schente , S; schent , pp. , S, S2, C, W2, G; shent , PP, C2.—AS.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

She darts forth in agony, and with woman's wailing and torn hair runs distractedly towards the walls and the foremost columns, recking naught of men, naught of peril or weapons; thereon she fills the air with her complaint: 'Is it thus I behold thee,
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

To this he replied, "Dulcinea is a maiden still, and my passion more firmly rooted than ever, our intercourse unsatisfactory as before, and her beauty transformed into that of a foul country wench;" and then he proceeded to give them a full and particular account of the enchantment of Dulcinea, and of what had happened him in the cave of Montesinos, together with what the sage Merlin had prescribed for her disenchantment, namely the scourging of Sancho.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

For by their necessity the gods were compelled to invent the arts of metal-working, weaving, [carpentery], jeweling and many other useful appliances for the human race. doc>
— from Japanese Fairy World Stories from the Wonder-Lore of Japan by William Elliot Griffis

Duchess I thank thee, my Lord Justice, heartily; I like your law: and now I pray dispatch This public outlaw to his righteous doom; What is there more?
— from The Duchess of Padua by Oscar Wilde

Witman and Johns, two of the hands, reflected disparagingly once on the quantity of work that Tommy had done lately.
— from Saddle and Mocassin by Francis Francis

"That unhappy boy," said Sir William, "is more than ever devoted to his religious duties; nor do I believe that any priest-ridden poor devil in the dark ages ever made such use of the scourge and the penance."
— from Devereux — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The Reflexion is awful—and in this point of view, How trifling, how ridiculous, do the little, paltry cavellings, of a few weak or interested men appear, when weighed against the business of a world.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

"We can scarce travel together," he replied, drily.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 01 by Walter Scott

They chose to halt at the small, shabby tenement-house by the river, through the doorway of which the bridal pair disappeared with a reeling, eccentric gait; for Mr. O'Rourke's intoxication seemed to have run down his elbow, and communicated itself to Margaret.
— from A Rivermouth Romance by Thomas Bailey Aldrich

But Haki had received such severe wounds that he foresaw that his remaining days would be few.
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu