“He’s a lively chief mate, that; good man, and a pious; but all alive now, I must turn to.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

C'est plus engageant que la culture "Marabook", non?
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

This morning, during breakfast, Lord Orville took an opportunity to beg me, in a low voice, to allow him a moment’s conversation before I left Clifton; “May I hope,” added he, “that you will stroll into the garden after breakfast?”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Then Sir Launcelot and Sir La Cote Male Taile reposed them there, unto the time that Sir La Cote Male Taile was whole of his wounds, and there they had merry cheer, and good rest, and many good games, and there were many fair ladies.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

III—V— Sociology of a large canoe ( masawa ).
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

“Yes, ask her for one of her liqueur cellarets, mine is incomplete; and tell her I shall have the honor of seeing her about three o’clock, and that I request permission to introduce someone to her.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

La libéralité consiste moins à donner beaucoup, qu'à donner à-propos —Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in giving seasonably.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Gross Diligenz und klein Conscienz macht reich —Great industry and little conscience make one rich.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And with a little coquettish movement she turned herself, and held up one arm, so as to show all her loveliness and the rich hair of raven blackness that streamed in soft ripples down her snowy robes, almost to her sandalled feet.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

They were fishing for anchovies, my lady, close by, my lady, near Sarzana; two young men, or rather one about the same age as master, and one like my lord; cousins, my lady, and just in the same sort of boat, my lady; and there came on a squall, just the same sort of squall, my lady; and they did not return home; and everyone was frightened out of their wits, my lady, and their wives and families quite distracted; and after all they were at Leghorn; for this sort of wind always takes your open boats to Leghorn, Vicenzo says.'
— from Venetia by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

As he spoke the roaring became louder, closer, more ominous.
— from The Border Boys with the Mexican Rangers by John Henry Goldfrap

Funny thing happened night before last," continued Mr. Hopkins, laughing.
— from Coniston — Volume 02 by Winston Churchill

General Learning Corp. Made by the David Coffing Co. 7 min., sd., color, 16 mm.
— from Motion Pictures 1960-1969: Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Monsieur le colonel, make your peace with the King of France; the Czerni-Georges ought not to snub the Bourbons.
— from A Start in Life by Honoré de Balzac

One volume, square 8vo, $1.00. FROM LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON: "Everybody was in love with 'Little Lord Fauntleroy,' and I think all the world and the rest of mankind will be in love with 'Sara Crewe.'
— from Sara Crewe; Or, What Happened at Miss Minchin's by Frances Hodgson Burnett