She is a woman that one may, that one must laugh at; but that one would not wish to slight.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

THE TWO OLD MEN Two old men went hunting.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

It was in vain that we had been taught from the pulpit at St. Michael’s, the duty of obedience to our masters; to recognize God as the author of our enslavement; to regard running away an offense, alike against God and man; to deem our enslavement a merciful and beneficial arrangement; to esteem our condition, in this country, a paradise to that from which we had been snatched in Africa; to consider our hard hands and dark color as God’s mark of displeasure, and as pointing us out as the proper [213] subjects of slavery; that the relation of master and slave was one of reciprocal benefits; that our work was not more serviceable to our masters, than our master’s thinking was serviceable to us.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

Three troops of maidens; though one maid foremost rode, bright, with helmed head.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

It can serve no purpose with the ordinary, mediocre type of man.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Though they introduce some rival commodities into the old market, they open many new markets to its produce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

[ These Honoriani, or Honoriaci, consisted of two bands of Scots, or Attacotti, two of Moors, two of Marcomanni, the Victores, the Asca in, and the Gallicani, (Notitia Imperii, sect.
— 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

As for the two old men, they only met once or twice in all these years.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille

It was wonderful how glibly he could insist on this to himself; and fancying for the moment that he was one of the outer world commenting on the match, say, ‘Yes, let people decry the Walpole class how they might—they are elegant, they are exclusive, they are fastidious, they are all that you like to call the spoiled children of Fortune in their wit, their brilliancy, and their readiness, but they are the only men, the only men in the world, who marry—we’ll not say for “love,” for the phrase is vulgar—but who marry to please themselves!
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

The present one will be very much extended, and will involve the traversing of many thousands of miles by the diva and her company.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 17, No. 97, January to June 1899 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Many of the knights who dwelt with the Templars, and fought under their banner, were also affiliated, and the history of the order more than once makes mention of the sisters —that is, women
— from Secret Societies of the Middle Ages by Thomas Keightley

But the Colonel has to think of many things; of more than the immediate moment.
— from Chippinge Borough by Stanley John Weyman

He considers that my Face and Name are more known than those of many thousands of more consequence in the Kingdom: That therefore, right or wrong, a Lick at the Laureat [34] will 36 always be a sure Bait, ad captandum vulgus , to catch him little Readers: And that to gratify the Unlearned, by now and then interspersing those merry Sacrifices of an old Acquaintance to their Taste, is a piece of quite right Poetical Craft.
— from An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume 1 (of 2) Written by Himself. A New Edition with Notes and Supplement by Colley Cibber

They have their own papers, their own messengers, their own mail carriers, and they trust no other.
— from The Sympathy of Religions by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Then Madame turned once more to old Matthieu.
— from A Sheaf of Bluebells by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

The death of Hamlet or Othello is, so far, more tragic than that of Macbeth, that of Macbeth than that of Richard.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley