I doubt if I've ever seen an uncouther kid than this Glossop.
— from Right Ho, Jeeves by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

-un ug kamut tending to swipe things.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When all had signified their approbation, Scipio resumed: What commencement of a political constitution can we conceive more brilliant, or more universally known, than the foundation of Rome by the hand of Romulus?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Finally they agreed to this article, but it struck me that [pg 126] their object was solely to let us know that their spirit was not entirely broken, and that if our demands were too exorbitant they would fight rather than yield.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

Come then, let us kill this thick Olaf.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

We like to think that the sunshine and the winds and the trees are able to love in some way of their own, for it would make us know that they were happy if we knew that they could love.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

(Now from the first moment of my arrival from Greece, Eusebia of blessed memory kept showing me the utmost kindness through the eunuchs of her household.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

Now let us keep to this parallel.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Next after [146] Mr. Rose of Dingwall, the principal instrument in clearing Strathconon, was the late James Gillanders of Highfield, already so well and unfavourably known to the reader in connection with the evictions at Glencalvie and elsewhere.
— from The History of the Highland Clearances Second Edition, Altered and Revised by Alexander Mackenzie

“For,” said she, “we must seem to be rich folks, or who will believe in the bottle?” All the time of her preparation she was as gay as a bird; only when she looked upon Keawe, the tears would spring in her eye, and she must run and kiss him.
— from Island Nights' Entertainments by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Let us keep to the facts; without the system.”
— from The Country House by John Galsworthy

"How can any of us know that till we try?
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

"And if you wonder, as you well may, why I have been talking to you with this startling unreserve, know that the same Arab child, on whom I thus implicitly rely, informs me that your life is mixed up with that of the being I seek to unmask and disarm,—to be destroyed by his arts or his agents, or to combine in the causes by which the destroyer himself shall be brought to destruction."
— from A Strange Story — Volume 03 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Upon the whole, it seemed to us kindest to the parties concerned, the widow King, Tom, and Chloe, to accept the gift.
— from The Widow's Dog by Mary Russell Mitford

And, again, and on this same point, “There is this unerring key to the right use of the Bible.
— from Bunyan Characters (2nd Series) by Alexander Whyte

Mr. Huneker went to the trouble of looking up Kilmer to thank him very simply for his praise.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

Dyspepsia is a rarity; for when a mutton chop is swallowed of a Bostonian it gives up, knowing that there is no need of fighting against such inexorable digestion.
— from Around the Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage