Although, to make the story fair, The fox had used his utmost care, The wolf (a fool to give him credit) Went down because his stomach bid it-- And by his weight pull'd up Sir Renard to the top.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

Quantities of coarse salt and sulphate of copper were added, from time to time to assist the amalgamation by destroying base metals which coated the gold and silver and would not let it unite with the quicksilver.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

For the first day, I was tortured with apprehensions for the friendly Fadini, fearing that he had been robbed and murdered for the jewels which he had, perhaps, too unwarily exposed to sale.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I never advise pretty creatures like you to tuck up their silk gowns and go down into the sloughs with alms for the poor, who don't like it any better than you do, and so much pity and money are wasted in sentimental charity."
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

In other cases, the probability is that the United States will either wholly abstain from the objects preoccupied for local purposes, or will make use of the State officers and State regulations for collecting the additional imposition.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

There are many passages in some of our greatest modern poets which are far too obscure; in which there is no proportion between style and subject, in which any half-expressed figure, any harsh construction, any distorted collocation of words, any remote sequence of ideas is admitted; and there is no voice ‘coming sweetly from nature,’ or music adding the expression of feeling to thought.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

I want a friend to-night, Lord Darlington: I didn’t know I would want one so soon.
— from Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde

What a fatal thing is the popular pride of a free city!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It was a fine, thick piece of wood, bulbous-headed, of the sort which is known as a “Penang lawyer.”
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

He always showed some enjoyment of the fun which arose from the effects of his own scheming.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

Doubtless it was a favourable time for the presenting of petitions, for during the night the Queen had given birth to a daughter.
— from Yorkshire Battles by Edward Lamplough

So, also, step by step, through bacteriology with its toxins and antitoxins and now with anaphylaxis, from the philosophic ash-heap on which we thought to have thrown it for good and all, like [Pg 89] an old family cat that we thought was dead, comes creeping back that old conception of a gouty diathesis or arthritism, not as dead as we thought it, to complete the explanation of the existence of hay fever.
— from The Treatment of Hay Fever by rosin-weed, ichthyol and faradic electricity With a discussion of the old theory of gout and the new theory of anaphylaxis by George Frederick Laidlaw

His last journey had proved the existence of a long line of good country, fairly well-watered, and although beyond it he had not been able to proceed, still, there was no knowing what a fresh trial might bring forth.
— from The History of Australian Exploration from 1788 to 1888 by Ernest Favenc

No doubt it was a foolish thing to intrude on the privacy of so powerful an animal; but I had no occasion to regret my [Pg 63] misconduct, for the badger, far from resenting it, became my best friend.
— from Master Reynard: The History of a Fox by Jane Fielding

No steps were taken to ascertain whether there were any facts to prove that the death of the Spaniard was due to violence; but, according to the custom in Morocco, those parties upon whom it was sought to fix suspicion were examined under severe torture, and the application of the bastinado.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady

It was turned up against the wall, and fastened to the side of the cabin.
— from The Story of American History for Elementary Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

We all felt that the moment we begin to turn our backs to the enemy, that moment we acknowledge ourselves either outgeneraled or whipped, a thing most disheartening, and to which pride never easily condescends.
— from Three Years in the Federal Cavalry by Willard W. Glazier

“What a fling!” “Too high,” muttered Black Duncan.
— from Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police: A Tale of the Macleod Trail by Ralph Connor