The king and his escort have gone this way; we had better take the opposite direction, eh?”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

She had no toys or dolls except of home manufacture, but her rag baby and set of broken dishes afforded just as much happiness as children nowadays get from a roomful of imported playthings.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Yet , O Polydectes, 23 the ruler of little Seriphus, 187 V. 243-264 neither the 166 V. 243-266 valor of the youth proved by so many toils, nor his sorrows have softened thee; but thou obstinately dost exert an inexorable hatred, nor is there any limit to thy unjust resentment.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Well ,” said St. Clare, in a tone of dry endurance.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The things one does. ELIZABETH: Yes.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

“How favourable soever,” said she, “my lady's inclination towards you may be, you may depend upon it, she will not commit the smallest trespass on decorum, either in disclosing her own, or in receiving a declaration of your passion: and, although the great veneration I have for you has prompted me to reveal what she communicated to me in confidence, I know so well the severity of her sentiments with respect to the punctilios of her sex that, if she should learn the least surmise of it, she would not only dismiss me as a wretch unworthy of her benevolence, but also for ever shun the efforts of your love.”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The obscure domestic, exalted to the throne by fortune, rather than by merit, was impatient to escape from the hands of the Persians, that he might prevent the designs of Procopius, who commanded the army of Mesopotamia, and establish his doubtful reign over the legions and provinces which were still ignorant of the hasty and tumultuous choice of the camp beyond the Tigris.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A Kĕdah lady the other day, eulogising the advantage of possessing a familiar spirit (she said that, amongst other things, it gave her absolute control over her husband and the power of annoying people who offended her), thus described the method of securing this useful ally:— “‘You go out,’ she said, ‘on the night before the full moon, and stand with your back to the moon, and your face to an ant-hill, so that your shadow falls on the ant-hill.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

In cases where the opposite difficulty exists, a diet of unbolted wheat, or rye mush with salt and molasses will remedy the evil.
— from Miss Beecher's Domestic Receipt Book Designed as a Supplement to Her Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catharine Esther Beecher

The two triplets of d each cast out an atom on dissociation, and form two pairs and two units.
— from Occult Chemistry: Clairvoyant Observations on the Chemical Elements by Annie Besant

After Peru though, it will be hard to tame ourselves down enough to schedule a canoe trip to Minnesota.”
— from The Boy Scout Explorers at Treasure Mountain by Don Palmer

The icy tone of declamation extinguishes all nature here, and the French tragedians, with their superstitious worship of decorum, make it quite impossible for them to paint human nature truly.
— from Aesthetical Essays of Friedrich Schiller by Friedrich Schiller

To refer more particularly to your own district, the fifth, I will try to explain to you how the new method will work in transactions of domestic exchange.
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

Women are active as bookbinders, stockbrokers, bills of exchange agents, auditors, teachers of domestic economy, instructors in gymnastics, ladies’ guides, wardrobe dealers (the costly robes of the women of fashion are sold on commission through agents), paperers and decorators, etc.
— from The Modern Woman's Rights Movement: A Historical Survey by Käthe Schirmacher

—Afterwards Paul Jones went to France, and sailing from Brest in his ship the Ranger, he swept the seas all around England, taking or destroying every hostile ship he met.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell