As to the widow's share, the counsel say, 'We hold it just the daughters each should pay One third to her upon demand, Should she not choose to have it stand Commuted as a life annuity, Paid from her husband's death, with due congruity.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Poor wandering Hetty, with the rounded childish face and the hard, unloving, despairing soul looking out of it—with the narrow heart and narrow thoughts, no room in them for any sorrows but her own, and tasting that sorrow with the more intense bitterness!
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Thus the first rule would imply the addition “and, if either Cole or Lang takes only one condiment, then Barry takes salt.”] pg193 7. (1) Brothers, who are much admired, are apt to be self-conscious; (2) When two men of the same height are on opposite sides in Politics, if one of them has his admirers, so also has the other; (3) Brothers, who avoid general Society, look well when walking together; (4) Whenever you find two men, who differ in Politics and in their views of Society, and who are not both of them ugly, you may be sure that they look well when walking together; (5) Ugly men, who look well when walking together, are not both of them free from self-consciousness; (6) Brothers, who differs in Politics, and are not both of them handsome, never give themselves airs; (7) John declines to go into Society, but never gives himself airs; (8) Brothers, who are apt to be self-conscious, though not both of them handsome, usually dislike Society; (9) Men of the same height, who do not give themselves airs, are free from self-consciousness; (10) Men, who agree on questions of Art, though they differ in Politics, and who are not both of them ugly, are always admired; (11) Men, who hold opposite views about Art and are not admired, always give themselves airs; (12) Brothers of the same height always differ in Politics; (13) Two handsome men, who are neither both of them admired nor both of them self-conscious, are no doubt of different heights; (14) Brothers, who are self-conscious, and do not both of them like Society, never look well when walking together.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

The one evening paper in Melbourne, The Herald , usually devoted some space to sport, but it was not published till too late in the day to be of any value to race-goers and punters.
— from The Chronicles of a Gay Gordon by J. M. (Joseph Maria) Gordon

"I think it's at least a thousand hours until day," said Bill Breakstone at last.
— from The Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

, we were not wrong in supposing that this would be a good opportunity for studying the habits, " usages de société " and what not, of a tolerably large party (fifty was to be the number) of the better class of French propriètaires .
— from Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 365, March, 1846 by Various

it tuk two gemmens to tote him up de steps.”
— from Kennedy Square by Francis Hopkinson Smith

"But I owe it to Danny," they heard Uncle Darcy say.
— from Georgina of the Rainbows by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

Madame du Barry thought herself utterly disgraced; she returned home, and remained two hours, alone, abandoned to the utmost distress.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

To her utter dismay she came quite suddenly upon the King, [pg 62] who called out to her, "Miss Burney!"
— from Peeps at Royal Palaces of Great Britain by Beatrice Home

The Cambridge men are perhaps the favourites at present, but, though they have undoubtedly done some fast times, their furrows are apt to be very erratic.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, August 3, 1895 by Various