You are my true and honourable wife, / As dear to me as are the ruddy drops / That visit my sad heart.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

[DRUM AND TRUMPETS SOUND AGAIN.] Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero— MOR [ABOVE]: Villains, murderers, sons of the earth, and traitors, what do you there? CLER:
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

[Clark, April 16, 1805] 16th of April Tuesday 1805 Wind hard from the S. E I walked on Shore and Killed an antilope which was verry meagre, Saw great numbers of Elk & some buffalow & Deer, a verry large Beaver Cought this morning.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Precious souls!—— Mrs. Wadman had told it, with all its circumstances, to Mrs. Bridget twenty-four hours before; and was at that very moment sitting in council with her, touching some slight misgivings with regard to the issue of the affairs, which the Devil, who never lies dead in a ditch, had put into her head—before he would allow half time, to get quietly through her Te Deum.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

= Quel est votre meilleur souvenir lié à l'internet?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

vástago , m. , stem, bud, offshoot; descendant, offspring.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Blanche [Beatrix.], he made the originals of a chimney-piece for the Hulot d'Ervys; was among the guests invited by Mademoiselle Brisetout at her little house-warming on the rue Chauchat (1838); the same year he was present at the celebration of Wenceslas Steinbock's marriage with Hortense Hulot; knew Dorlange-Sallenauve; with Vignon, Steinbock and Massol, he was a witness of Valerie Marneffe's second marriage to Celestin Crevel; entertained a secret love for Madame Steinbock when she was neglected by her husband
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

[ The cardinal of St. George, in his poetical, or rather metrical history of the election and coronation of Boniface VIII., (Muratori Script. Ital.
— 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

‘Thank you very much,’ said Alice.
— from Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll

White and still as marble, the deserted wife sat holding that mad note in her hand, looking before her into vacancy, moveless, speechless—yes, and pallid as she would ever be in her coffin.
— from The Senator's Bride by Miller, Alex. McVeigh, Mrs.

He was very much subdued, but his companions appreciated his manliness, and gave him a warm welcome.
— from The Story of the Big Front Door by Mary Finley Leonard

He was not deceived in supposing this friend would be the bearer of many letters, though very much so if he hoped to find therein proofs of my having acted, or intending to act contrary to the passport; he however missed his aim altogether, as I learned some months afterward; the cautious Swiss had separated my letters from those he had received from other persons, and these last only were found; but it was not less evident, that general De Caen was seeking all means to fortify himself with pretexts to avoid setting me at liberty.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

"Thank you very much," she said.
— from Shavings: A Novel by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

In spite of these discouragements, however, various men set themselves to form in rapid succession the Potomac Company in 1785, the Society for Promoting the Improvement of Inland Navigation in 1791, the Western Inland Lock Navigation Company in 1792, and the Lehigh Coal Mine Company in 1793.
— from The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert