Punctually to the day, this was done, and the business of Lucas, Turner & Co., of San Francisco, was discontinued, except the more difficult and disagreeable part of collecting their own moneys and selling the real estate, to which the firm had succeeded by purchase or foreclosure.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

He found, as on the night before, the little folks at their singing and dancing, and the old man again shaved him clean, and signed to him to take some coal away with him.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The treatment does not differ essentially from that of Middleton and Shakespeare.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

—“Leave off,” said the old man, and sprang up from the ground, “strike me no more, O Zarathustra!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Both of the visitors, after saluting the old man and speaking to Barrois, a faithful servant, who had been twenty-five years in his service, took their places on either side of the paralytic.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The original manuscripts are said to have been in the possession of Llywelyn Sion, a Bard of Glamorgan, about 1560.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

It was also told that King Harald was stronger and stouter than other men, and so wise withal that nothing was impossible to him, and he had always the victory when he fought a battle; and he was also so rich in gold that no man could compare with him in wealth.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

They make psychology increasingly dependent on physiology and external observation, and tend to think of matter as something much more solid and indubitable than mind.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

They went on gradually, made their own money and saved it; and this is the best way to acquire a fortune.
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

At Cambridge, “just SHAVING through,” or “making a SHAVE ,” is just escaping a “pluck” by coming out at the bottom of the list.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

What think you of the art of picturesque writing?” “Admirable!” said Vivian; “von Chronicle himself—” “How can you mention the name of that odious man!” almost shrieked Madame Carolina, forgetting the dignity of her semi-regal character in the jealous feelings of the author.
— from Vivian Grey by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The whole island contains a territory considerably larger than England and Scotland, produces every kind of grain and vegetable well, and has a climate very similar to our Middle and Southern states.
— from Palmer's Journal of Travels Over the Rocky Mountains, 1845-1846 by Joel Palmer

He is a critic of the first rank and, what is his peculiar ornament, he is delivered from the ostentation, malevolence, and supercilious temper, that so often blemish men of that character.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

The prisoners also, when the time was come for them to go down before the Prince, dressed themselves in mourning attire, with ropes upon their heads.[198] The whole town of Mansoul also showed themselves upon the wall, all clad in mourning weeds, if, perhaps, the Prince, with the sight thereof, might be moved with compassion.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Always heretofore, when he had sat with the black decanter, he had felt the wonderful, slow change—the gradual glow creeping through every nerve, the tightening of muscle and sinew as for a race, the thrilling, glad sense of renewed power and unleashed ability and the inevitable quivering rush of lambent images in his brain.
— from The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

The new will—so Durham told me to tell you—was burnt by the old man, and so the old one, giving you all, stands.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume