125 Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy, With my extern the outward honouring, Or laid great bases for eternity, Which proves more short than waste or ruining?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

What pretensions, Madame!
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

For some how I am not praised when my judgment of myself is not praised; forasmuch as either those things are praised, which displease me; or those more, which please me less.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If upright Rectitude and stern Justice were peculiarly masculine, Mercy had the gentleness and the persuasiveness of a feminine nature.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

This sense, as it becomes reflective and expressive of physical welfare, points more and more to its own persistence and harmony, and generates the Life of Reason.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I cannot tell how long I lay there, but I found my life coming back, and a kind-voiced man was patting me and encouraging me to rise.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

19 Clodion, the first of their long-haired kings, whose name and actions are mentioned in authentic history, held his residence at Dispargum, 20 a village or fortress, whose place may be assigned between Louvain and Brussels.
— 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

My mother, the harlot, Who put me to death; My father, the varlet, Who eaten me hath!
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I myself have reserved, among divers of those antiquities there, one urn, with the ashes and bones, and one pot of white earth very small, not exceeding the quantity of a quarter of a wine pint, made in shape of a hare squatted upon her legs, and between her ears is the mouth of the pot.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

The seal and mace were carried next, between the Lord Chancellor (Bishop Gardiner) and the Lord Treasurer, William Paulet, Marquis of Winchester.
— from Robin Tremayne A Story of the Marian Persecution by Emily Sarah Holt

And encouraged by the great interest of Dr. Weston, Percy minimus ventured to ask him if he thought he could ask Dr. Dunston to allow this to be done, seeing it meant great comfort and joy for a Tommy in the trenches on Christmas Day.
— from The Human Boy and the War by Eden Phillpotts

Hear the language of a genuine lover of David: "And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be."
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

He well knew in what points mankind agreed, and in what they differed, and he attached much superior importance to the former.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

Throwing together the houses, towers and churches she said to Lippo, "Come, Lippo, I know something amusing we can do which will please mama, too.
— from Maezli: A Story of the Swiss Valleys by Johanna Spyri

Mr. Coleman, good friend and true, with plentiful means and splendid credit, did not [Pg 192] fail to volunteer to give us his endorsements.
— from Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew Carnegie

Spaniards often marry under twenty-one, and even a recent wedding in Madrid, where neither bride 166 nor bridegroom had reached the fifteenth year, was hardly thought amiss, in view of the fact that there was parental money to maintain them.
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

He thought, to use his own words, "that it would be best to march the division at once to Swinks Pan, which would place me on the left front of the enemy's position, and that if I worked one battery round each flank, sent my cavalry and mounted infantry well forward, the greater part of the cavalry being on the eastern side, I ought to capture the eastern force.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 8) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 by Louis Creswicke