Gloomy Lamoignon is not to die by conflagration, or this night; not yet for a year, and then by gunshot ( suicidal or accidental is unknown ).
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Laughter means sympathy; good laughter is not "the crackling of thorns under the pot.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

It is the talk of all men that he had been the most gallant lenderman in Norway that any man then living could remember; and also he behaved the best towards us Icelanders of any chief since King Eystein the Elder's death.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Up and to my office all the morning, and there saw several things done in my work to my great content, and at noon home to dinner, and after dinner in Sir W. Pen’s coach he set my wife and I down at the New Exchange, and after buying some things we walked to my Lady Sandwich’s, who, good lady, is now, thanks be to God!
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

We may sometimes take greater liberties in November than in May.”
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

To this head belongs, moreover, the tendency which is on various occasions apparent in the Gracchan legislation, if not to abolish capital punishment, at any rate to restrict it still further than had been done before—
— from The History of Rome, Book IV The Revolution by Theodor Mommsen

The world is not done with the glorious little island, nor the island done with the world either.
— from Round the World by Andrew Carnegie

When the native of Saint Michael's invokes the moon, or the native of Point Barrow his crude images previously to hunting the seal, in order to bring good luck, is not the mental and emotional impulse the same as that which actuates more civilized men to look upon "outward signs of an inward and spiritual grace," or not to start upon any important undertaking without first invoking the blessing of Deity?
— from The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants by Irving C. (Irving Collins) Rosse

Sir Geraint liked it not that the maiden should be dressed in robes given by the man who had stripped her father of all his wealth, and he said coldly: 'I would that the damsel do not array herself, except in the vest and veil she hath worn till now.
— from King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Henry Gilbert

But as she got nearer to us and the laughing of the children grew louder, I noticed that her hands were very dark in color, and hairy, like a witch’s.
— from The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle by Hugh Lofting

In many cases the hewing of the trees at ground level is not to be thought of.
— from On the Edge of the Primeval Forest Experiences and Observations of a Doctor in Equatorial Africa by Albert Schweitzer

"My dear girl, lucky is not the word for it.
— from The Slave of Silence by Fred M. (Fred Merrick) White

The common garden larkspur is native to Southern Europe.
— from Texas Flowers in Natural Colors by Eula Whitehouse

Persons who wear glasses for reading should be careful to use them while reading music, and good light is necessary to avoid any undue strain.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

The 'Golden Land' is not the sort of steamer you would care to travel in; there's none of the luxuries of a liner on her.
— from The Second String by Nat Gould