His title, schoolmaster, would very naturally seem derived from the name bestowed upon the harem itself, but some have surmised that the man who first thus entitled this sort of Ottoman whale, must have read the memoirs of Vidocq, and informed himself what sort of a country-schoolmaster that famous Frenchman was in his younger days, and what was the nature of those occult lessons he inculcated into some of his pupils.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

—No; I shall never have a finger in the pye (so here I break my metaphor)— Crust and Crumb Inside and out Top and bottom—I detest it, I hate it, I repudiate it—I'm sick at the sight of it— 'Tis all pepper, garlick, staragen, salt, and devil's dung—by the great arch-cooks of cooks, who does nothing, I think, from morning to night, but sit down by the fire-side and invent inflammatory dishes for us, I would not touch it for the world— —O Tristram!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

On certain of those shores at least there is scarcely any inconvenience that the majority of respectable and good-natured people will not tolerate—inconvenience to their neighbours be it understood—rather than put pen to paper for the purpose of preventing it.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Throw no gift again at the giver's head; / Better is half a loaf than no bread.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Then Ahala Servilius, military tribune, says, "that he had remained silent for so long a time, not because he was uncertain as to his opinion, (for what good citizen can separate his own interests from those of the public,) but because he wished that his colleagues should of their own accord yield to the authority of the senate, rather than suffer the tribunitian power to be suppliantly appealed to against them.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

He says the count was the last representative but one of the great century, and that it is his own turn now, but that he will do all he can to let his turn come as late as possible.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Its contents are known to nobody but himself and us.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I am confident that no Boy who will not be allured to Letters without Blows, will ever be brought to any thing with them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The actions themselves may be blameable; they may be contrary to all the rules of morality and religion: But the person is not answerable for them; and as they proceeded from nothing in him that is durable and constant, and leave nothing of that nature behind them, it is impossible he can, upon their account, become the object of punishment or vengeance.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

I don’t like this new boy very well, and I’m afraid he doesn’t like me.
— from Harry Harding's Year of Promise by Alfred Raymond

The Northern Pacific railway connects its various towns with both Portland and Seattle, and the North Bank and Oregon & Washington railroad, paralleling the Northern Pacific, will add greatly to the facility and cheapness of its transportation.
— from A Review of the Resources and Industries of the State of Washington, 1909 by Ithamar Howell

Only by an effective community of interest or of ownership among the trunk lines could a saving have been secured on which the new bond issues could safely have relied.
— from Railroad Reorganization by Stuart Daggett

By the way, where has Bob stowed Tom for the night?" "Bob won't tell," said Mason.
— from The Graysons: A Story of Illinois by Edward Eggleston

Our next neighbour was a flesher; and right before the window was a large stone, on which old wives with their weans would sometimes take a rest; so what does I, when I saw the whole hobble-shaw coming fleeing down the street, with the kick-ba’ at their noses, but up I speels upon the stone, (I was a wee chap with a daidley, a ruffled shirt, and leather cap edged with rabbit fur,) that I might see all the fun.
— from The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself by D. M. (David Macbeth) Moir

The Whitely mills were significant of the new Bremerton, now neither village nor city, but partaking of the characteristics of both.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

And the table not being over large, the three seated at it could converse with one another very much at their ease.
— from In Queer Street by Fergus Hume

On approaching the confines of his territory, Temujin, not being certain of Turkili's disposition toward him, sent forward an embassador to announce his approach, and to ask if Turkili still retained the friendship which had long subsisted between them.
— from Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series by Jacob Abbott

Is there not, besides, the Douglas?
— from The First Part of King Henry the Fourth by William Shakespeare

Koriacs , their country the Northern boundary of Kamtchatka, 5 .
— from Account of the Russian Discoveries between Asia and America To which are added, the conquest of Siberia, and the history of the transactions and commerce between Russia and China by William Coxe