I determined not to return to-night to the gloom-haunted rooms, but to sleep here, where, of old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweet lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Your fortune stood upon the caskets there, And so did mine too, as the matter falls; For wooing here until I sweat again, And swearing till my very roof was dry With oaths of love, at last, if promise last, I got a promise of this fair one here To have her love, provided that your fortune Achiev'd her mistress.
— from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

The small mentonnière, or bavier, is equal on both sides, but it was often of less extent on the right.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

“At 4.20 P.M., Sunday, we rolled out of the station at Omaha, and started westward on our long jaunt.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

And Duke Joshua and Maccabaeus were of our lineage.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

* * The inspired work of our leader therefore must not be thrown before a crowd to be torn to pieces, or even before a limited group.")
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Sawney was one of Lacy’s favourite characters, and occupies a prominent position in Michael Wright’s picture at Hampton Court.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" "Seek not to stay me, nor my soul affright With words of omen, like a bird of night, (Replied unmoved the venerable man;) 'Tis heaven commands me, and you urge in vain.
— from The Iliad by Homer

I saw his finger uneasily going across and across his mouth during the whole of one long weary stage.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Let him observe—as he will soon have occasion to do—the events which were occurring on land and sea, exactly at the moment when this classic despatch reached its destination, and judge whether the hearts of the Queen and Lord Burghley would be then quite at leisure to melt at the sorrows of the Trojan War.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

This ignorance produces weak outbursts of lamentations that the Hebrews “still cling with obstinate persistence to a hopeless hope,” Hence we read in the pages of a modern traveller— The Rob Roy on the Jordan , p. 274, by J. MacGregor, M.A. (London: Murray, 1869): “Here, as well as some twenty years ago, I heard men in Palestine call their fellows ‘Jew’ as the lowest of all possible words of abuse.
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

his armie to the number of three hundreth sayles purposing for to send them against Rhodes, if mortalitie had not happened in his host, and he afterwarde by the will of our lorde was surprised and taken with death: wherefore he being in the latter ende of his dayes, (as some Turkes and false christian men that were at this siege shewed me) did charge by his testament, or caused to charge his sonne now being great Turke, that after this death hee should make his two first enterprises, the one against Bellegrado in Hungarie, and th
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe by Richard Hakluyt

To gain this mastery, you must know the words of our language and their use.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

“Who?” “Of our late high-priest, Abibaal; he used to walk in that ponderous, meditative way, and wear a beard like the Emperor’s.”
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

1-5 Priming or Preparing the Surface to be Japanned 4 The First Stage in the Japanning of Wood or of Leather without a Priming 5 SECTION II.
— from Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing by William Norman Brown

They couldn't see that with only one leg they must have less under-standing than we who have two legs.
— from The Patchwork Girl of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Well, this was December, and the world out of London.
— from Julia France and Her Times: A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

This was the fruit of the Civil War, its great gift to the womanhood of our land.
— from Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) by John Ruse Larus