He's bossed the Glen for years, and he thinks he's forgotten more than other people ever knew.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

So, to make a long story short, they filled themselves with my victuals, drank seven tumblers of punch each, kept playin' cards the whole night, and then fell a fightin'—smashed glass, delft, and everything; and when it was mornin', slipped out, one by one, till I caught my skip here, the last of them—” “Scamp, Mrs. Roony; a gentleman scamp, known to every one as a most respectable character on town.”
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

The moral scheme of France furnishes the only pattern ever known, which they who admire will INSTANTLY resemble.
— from Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke

It is true that our Pausanias evidently knew and had travelled in Syria, but this in itself is no reason for supposing that he was the author of a work to which in his extant writings he makes no allusion.
— from Studies in Greek Scenery, Legend and History Selected from His Commentary on Pausanias' 'Description of Greece,' by James George Frazer

But one would hardly expect this feat on the part of an animal, who was so deficient in keenness of vision, as we have been led, by those of presumably expert knowledge, to believe of the horse,—one would expect it all the less because Mr. von Osten and Mr. Schillings would move hither and thither in most irregular fashion while the horse was going through his tapping, and would therefore make the perception of minute movements all the more difficult.
— from Clever Hans (The Horse of Mr. Von Osten) A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology by Oskar Pfungst

Little happy Christian children, Little savage children too, In all stages of all ages, That our planet ever knew; Little princes and princesses, Little beggars, wan and faint— Some in very handsome dresses, Naked some, bedaubed with paint.
— from Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole

Each side had its ablest lawyers to plead; for the one party, Evarts, Kasson, McCrary, Stoughton and Matthews; for the other, O'Conor, Black, Field and Tucker.
— from The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement by George Spring Merriam

I will return— Selby Sweet wife, Use thy own pleasure— [ Exit KATHERINE.
— from The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

For what is not obtained by that? All the other politic expedients, known as conciliation and so on, are mere adjuncts.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta

But the testimony of Aristophanês [523] shows that no comic writer, of the time of Periklês, equalled Kratinus, either in vehemence of libel or in popularity.
— from History of Greece, Volume 08 (of 12) by George Grote

How exactly they ended the contest between the two rolling figures none of their own party ever knew; but end it they did.
— from Under the Chinese Dragon: A Tale of Mongolia by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton