But Glinda was now really angry, and sent word to Jinjur that the fraud was discovered and she must deliver up the real Mombi or suffer terrible consequences.
— from The Marvelous Land of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing —absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

‘Believe me, my young friend, there is NOTHING—absolute nothing—half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Here I did make the workmen drink, and saw my coach cleaned and oyled; and, staying among poor people there in the alley, did hear them call their fat child Punch, which pleased me mightily that word being become a word of common use for all that is thick and short.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

While there were divers and sundry movements of our troops hither and thither, and much sacrifice of life, after General Lawton’s Zapote River campaign in June, no substantial progress was made in conquering and occupying the Islands until the fall following the Zapote River campaign above mentioned, when the twenty-five regiments of volunteers were organized and sent out.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The disgrace and exile of the orthodox bishops of the West were designed as so many preparatory steps to the ruin of Athanasius himself.
— 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

In that day true and full happiness shall be the lot of none but the good, while deserved and supreme misery shall be the portion of the wicked, and of them only.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Return in safety—but the next who delivers a similar message may expect to be flayed alive."
— 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

It took him several seconds to realize that the Rat was dead, and several more to realize that it wasn't a Rat at all.
— from The Measure of a Man by Randall Garrett

The intelligent reader will discern a strong moral link between this and the preceding chapter.
— from Notes on the Book of Leviticus by Charles Henry Mackintosh

He married Anne, one of the daughters of Catherine of Berain by her second husband, Sir Richard Clough, Kt., another picturesque figure who deserves a separate mention.
— from The Intimate Letters of Hester Piozzi and Penelope Pennington, 1788-1821 by Penelope Pennington

That John W. Dorsey, Peck, Miner, and Boone were bidders; that certain routes had been awarded, they had not the money to stock the routes, and that S. W. Dorsey advanced some money and went security; that afterwards Boone went out and Vaile came in, and the contract was made by virtue of which Vaile became the treasurer and knew everybody, and ran the business to the first day of April, 1879.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

"It was made for Ann Linkon, who had slandered goodwife Stevens as was, but who has, since her husband was drowned at sea, married Hugh Price, the royalist and friend of the governor.
— from A Century Too Soon: The Age of Tyranny by John R. (John Roy) Musick

They urged him directly toward the war which hitherto, from the most serious motives, he had avoided, and, as his royal sister correctly saw, would destroy a slowly matured, earnest purpose; for it forced him to renounce the hope of effecting at Trent a reformation of the Church according to his own ideas, and a restoration of the unity of religion in a peaceful manner by yielding on one side and reasonable concessions on the other.
— from Barbara Blomberg — Volume 05 by Georg Ebers

He turned away from the window, drew a small magnifying-glass from his pocket, dropped on his hands and knees, and began to examine the surface of the carpet with the most minute care.
— from Arsene Lupin by Maurice Leblanc

The results of this expedition were considerable, for the king's navy was crippled, a great city was destroyed, and some millions of plunder had been obtained.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley