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— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

The conversation took place in English--a language which d’Artagnan could not understand; but by the accent the young man plainly saw that the beautiful Englishwoman was in a great rage.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

Herc. de Saxonia, stillicidia , or droppings, &c. Lotions of the feet do much avail of the said herbs: by these means, saith Laurentius, I think you may procure sleep to the most melancholy man in the world.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

She saw the coldness and malevolence with which the old prince received and dismissed the young men, possible suitors, who sometimes appeared at their house.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

"'But I tell you, my poor Strickland, the girl has a beguin for you,' I said.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

“Thank you, Mrs. Poyser,” said Adam; “a drink o' whey's allays a treat to me.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

For that you may pretend She'll use some prepar'd antidote of her own, Lest the physicians should re-poison her. ANTONIO.
— from The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

“Thank you, Miss Pinner,” said Mr. Farolles gratefully.
— from The Garden Party, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

The good of mentioning them is that you make people so extremely uncomfortable about them that they finally stop blaming “human nature” for them, and begin to support measures for their reform.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

The main argument of the Apologie may indeed be called a commentary on the saying of Aristotle, cited by Sidney himself, that "Poetry is more philosophical and more studiously serious than History"—that is, as Sidney interprets it, than the scientific fact of any kind; or again, on that yet more pregnant saying of Shelley, that "poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world".
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

One of two young men, passing swiftly homewards from the pier, found himself called to.
— from Johnny Ludlow, Fifth Series by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

"I thought, Colonel, that you might prefer spirits even to the wine," Terence said.
— from With Moore at Corunna by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

“I leave it entirely to you, Master Poitrou, so that everything is ready in time for me to wear them.
— from Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

I hate you with all my soul, and wish that you may perish soon!
— from The Black Monk, and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The young man paid slight heed to ceremony, but after eating a hasty meal, sought his sister and informed her that he was going to start for New York on the late evening train.
— from The Masked Bridal by Sheldon, Georgie, Mrs.

"As I've told you, Mindy," Pete said, "the homesteads have already been surveyed and the corners marked.
— from We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run by Jim Kjelgaard

'Well, if you should by chance be in one of the Redstone lanes about then, you might possibly see an open barouche with two ladies in it.'
— from Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey