“Indeed, my lord,” answered she, “you may obtain my gratitude, my good opinion, every kind thought and wish which it is in my power to bestow; nay, you may obtain them with ease, for sure to a generous mind it must be easy to grant my request.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

We are to be precipitated into faith by a miracle, without the help of reason, after which we are to float in it as the clearest and least equivocal of elements—a mere glance at some solid ground, the thought that we exist for some purpose other than floating, the least movement of our amphibious nature: all this is a sin!
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And then a woman, equally furious, spat out more spitefully still--“If only some god would put Giton into my hands, what a fine time I would give that runaway.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

O f Family Matters, Cares, Hopes, Disappointments, and Sorrows Although Mrs. Nickleby had been made acquainted by her son and daughter with every circumstance of Madeline Bray’s history which was known to them; although the responsible situation in which Nicholas stood had been carefully explained to her, and she had been prepared, even for the possible contingency of having to receive the young lady in her own house, improbable as such a result had appeared only a few minutes before it came about, still, Mrs. Nickleby, from the moment when this confidence was first reposed in her, late on the previous evening, had remained in an unsatisfactory and profoundly mystified state, from which no explanations or arguments could relieve her, and which every fresh soliloquy and reflection only aggravated more and more.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Her dress stuck out, with fur on it, all white; there was even fluffy stuff on the legs of her drawers.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

[116] When the Yadu was expelled from Salivahanpura, and forced to seek refuge
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Ere he had done, the clouds were dispersed and the sun shining out—tears were exchanged for smiles.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Emily now confided to him the name of Valancourt, and begged he would enquire for such a person among the prisoners in the castle; for the faint hope, which this conversation awakened, made her now recede from her resolution of an immediate compromise with Montoni.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

DAVID WIDGER For Project Gutenberg MAPS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE Western Empire Full Size Original Archive
— 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

Sir, said Sir Tristram, meseemeth it were no worship for a noble man to have ado with him: and for because at this time he hath done over much for any mean knight living, therefore, as meseemeth, it were great shame and villainy to tempt him any more at this time, insomuch as he and his horse are weary both; for the deeds of arms that he hath done this day, an they be well considered, it were enough for Sir Launcelot du Lake.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

wundswaðu (e) f. scar , VPs 37 6 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

"There really is no more reason why every family should make its own bread than its own butter,—why every family should do its own washing and ironing than its own tailoring or mantua-making.
— from The Chimney-Corner by Harriet Beecher Stowe

The Grand Council was restored: a Gonfalonier was elected; Florence suffered the hardships of her memorable siege.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

12.5 Like 165, but more black on under angle of wing gives letter W when wings expanded; f., sim.
— from An Australian Bird Book: A Pocket Book for Field Use by John Albert Leach

"Here!" came the reply in a strong German accent, and a man with energetic face stepped out from a company of twenty men.
— from The Apple of Discord by Earle Ashley Walcott

Were ever facts so strangely incongruous, so difficult to reconcile?
— from A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards

It was easy for Strann to dodge the beast, and the great black body hurtled past him and struck heavily on the floor of the barn.
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand