This sentence was the thesis of most of his bad nights, of which he felt this was to be one.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Think on these things, O my soul, and shut the doors of thy carnal desires, so mayest thou hear what the Lord God will say within thee.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

However Mr. Finch, one of the Commissioners, I met there, and he and I walked two houres together in the garden, talking of many things; sometimes of Mr. Povy, whose vanity, prodigality, neglect of his business, and committing it to unfit hands hath undone him and outed him of all his publique employments, and the thing set on foot by an accidental revivall of a business, wherein he had three or fours years ago, by surprize, got the Duke of Yorke to sign to the having a sum of money paid out of the Excise, before some that was due to him, and now the money is fallen short, and the Duke never likely to be paid.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

She said she would not fail, but I begged her not to take too much trouble over me, as I was a very heavy sleeper.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[47] had quitted the Old Manse.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

4289 Now called Artaki, or Erdek, a town of Mysia, and a Milesian colony.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The chick will peep if the hen is not there. siyap 2 n shop, an establishment devoted to repairing things or making things.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

The Tōti of Mysore is defined by Mr. L. Rice 58 as a menial among the village servants, a deputy talāri, who is employed to watch the crops from the growing crop to the granary.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Nancy gazed furtively about, peering at the faces, and hoping that one might be her son.
— from Nancy McVeigh of the Monk Road by R. Henry (Robert Henry) Mainer

'To such as can think of me so basely, no justification I could make would be of any avail.
— from The Pennycomequicks, Volume 1 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

“I am abundantly ready—only, pray you, let me have a good tilt with the old mumpsimuses first.”
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

I promised to give the Thunderbolt owners my decision by telegraph to-day.
— from Wide Awake Magazine, Volume 4, Number 3, January 10, 1916 by Various

one metaphor twenty winters from now you'll still be divining profundities from copulation and I'll still be mining my family secrets for that one metaphor that will inexplicably explain my childhood there's so little poetry in the reality that we can't write our failings into a good life, or be thankful our compulsions move us any closer toward truth in Japan, a bird alights on a branch outside your window and inspires a hundred tankas or it simply wings over your house,
— from Fountain Street by Jazno Francoeur

sneered the other man loudly.
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

triumph--"but I have accepted the offer Monsieur le General Denbigh was so good as to make me.
— from Precaution: A Novel by James Fenimore Cooper

The men are interested throughout, and one morning spent on this kind of work is worth several days of practice in the ordinary manner.
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

If you can answer that, I’ve got another to ask you and it’s right on the tip of my tongue—” “Stick your tongue out at him,” Bob suggested.
— from The Air Mystery of Isle La Motte by E. J. (Edith Janice) Craine