Away he went then upon his commission, Growling and grumbling in good Turkish phrase Against all women of whate'er condition, Especially sultanas and their ways; Their obstinacy, pride, and indecision, Their never knowing their own mind two days, The trouble that they gave, their immorality, Which made him daily bless his own neutrality.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Q.E.D. As for that certain, very thin, subtle and very fragrant juice which Coglionissimo Borri, the great Milaneze physician affirms, in a letter to Bartholine, to have discovered in the cellulae of the occipital parts of the cerebellum, and which he likewise affirms to be the principal seat of the reasonable soul, (for, you must know, in these latter and more enlightened ages, there are two souls in every man living,—the one, according to the great Metheglingius, being called the Animus, the other, the Anima;)—as for the opinion, I say of Borri,—my father could never subscribe to it by any means; the very idea of so noble, so refined, so immaterial, and so exalted a being as the Anima, or even the Animus, taking up her residence, and sitting dabbling, like a tad-pole all day long, both summer and winter, in a puddle,—or in a liquid of any kind, how thick or thin soever, he would say, shocked his imagination; he would scarce give the doctrine a hearing.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

A recent writer, in some respects of considerable merit, proposes (to use his own words), not a crusade, but a civilizade , against this polygamous community, to put an end to what seems to him a retrograde step in civilisation.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Takes virtuous copies to be wicked, like those that under hot ardent zeal would set whole realms on fire.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We afterwards understood he had quarrelled at a public house with an exciseman, whom he challenged to a bout at single stick, in which he had been worsted; and that the shame of this defeat had tied up his tongue.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

At last he took up his tale again.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

What It Is To Captivate The Understanding How God Speaketh To Men
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

With that he handed Kopeikin a trifle until his case should have been decided.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

The usurper had posted himself near London, to expect the formidable attack of Constantius, who commanded in person the fleet of Boulogne; but the descent of a new enemy required his immediate presence in the West.
— 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

Age has taught me charity of speech; but it fails me when I think of those three names—Cauchon, Courcelles, Loyseleur. (1) Hog, pig. (2) Cochonner, to litter, to farrow; also, “to make a mess of”! (3) The lower half of it remains to-day just as it was then; the upper half is of a later date. —
— from Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc — Volume 2 by Mark Twain

"Wal," ses he, "no matter, ef they won't trouble us here enny longer."
— from Letters of Major Jack Downing, of the Downingville Militia by Seba Smith

My best ally in the classification and preservation of the materials for this undertaking has been the “The Household Treasury,” published by Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, Philadelphia, and arranged by a lady of that city.
— from Breakfast, Luncheon and Tea by Marion Harland

"It is a taste of the underworld," he added.
— from The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles by Henry Augustus Hering

I should be so glad if she could explain to us how the German people reconcile the sinking of merchant ships, the unspeakable crime of the Lusitania with any belief in God, or even with the principles of our common humanity.
— from Back to Life by Philip Gibbs

Ill-humour had for the moment got the upper hand, and they were conscious only of their soreness as they followed their guide through the unkempt grounds.
— from No Man's Island by Herbert Strang

Then Julia retired with those appointed to be her attendants—her tiring-women, the ladies of her court; and when, some time after, she came forth, blushing and trembling, and with happy tears upon her face, wearing her simple holiday dress of white muslin, ornamented, in charming style, with wreaths of roses, the cries of 'Vive la rosière!' might have been heard a long way off.
— from Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 427 Volume 17, New Series, March 6, 1852 by Various

It descends, in a sloping direction, for about 350 ft. into the mountain, the upper half of it being tolerably regular in plan and direction; but after progressing as far as the unfinished hall with two pillars, the direction changes, and the works begin again on a lower level, probably because they came in contact with some other tomb, or in consequence of meeting some flaw in the rock.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

The girl took up her mother's deserted task, and went on with it soberly.
— from Stories of the Foot-hills by Margaret Collier Graham