“Go, Helen,” said her aunt; and continued to Margaret almost in the same breath: “Helen cannot deceive me.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Strange as my circumstances were, the terms of this debate are as old and commonplace as man; much the same inducements and alarms cast the die for any tempted and trembling sinner; and it fell out with me, as it falls with so vast a majority of my fellows, that I chose the better part and was found wanting in the strength to keep to it.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

“I require and charge you both (as ye will answer at the dreadful day of judgment, when the secrets of all hearts shall be disclosed), that if either of you know any impediment why ye may not lawfully be joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it; for be ye well assured that so many as are coupled together otherwise than God’s Word doth allow, are not joined together by God, neither is their matrimony lawful.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

All I insist on is that, as a class, they are quite unreadable.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

But this, his thinness, so to speak, seemed no more the token of wasting anxieties and cares, than it seemed the indication of any bodily blight.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

If they run Paris-quisling accounts of Jewish hoarding, and of Jews concealing large quantities of food, it means that they are almost certain to be under pressure to explain their Jewish policies and that, therefore, two factors face the German propagandist: first, he must get ready to announce the attack on the Jews; second, he thinks that the Jewish situation is going to arouse anti-Nazi sentiment even in Germany (if these are German-language programs) and he is therefore compelled to defend something because public opinion is believed by him to be against it.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

First as a comfort to Fanny, then as an auxiliary, and last as her substitute, she was established at Mansfield, with every appearance of equal permanency.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Proud to seem brave among a coward train!
— from The Odyssey by Homer

The Baconian method of collating tables of instances may be a useful aid at certain times.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The occurrence was noised abroad and came to the ears of the guru , who was much distressed, and proceeded to offer his condolences to Singāji’s family.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 2 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

As a contribution to this inquiry, let us now turn to an examination of the part that the West has played in shaping our democracy.
— from The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner

In a manner by no means aggressive, and with tones the counterpart of the humblest that ever came from an Amen corner, the reply was, "I am a Methodist, may it please the Court."
— from Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) Stevenson

One of the last duties which devolved upon Pg 108 me before leaving South Africa—at the urgent invitation of some of my friends—was to deliver an address at Cape Town on Imperial Federation.
— from A Winter Tour in South Africa by Frederick Young

The Saddle Boys at Circle Ranch or In at the Grand Round-up Here we have lively times at the ranch, and likewise the particulars of a grand round-up of cattle and encounters with wild animals and also cattle thieves.
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson

He did not like the thought that it was all over; and he had the very bad habit, at such times, of looking ahead and computing the slowly lessening number of chances that were left to him.
— from Days Off, and Other Digressions by Henry Van Dyke

The mother had expressly stipulated that Margaret should be treated as a lawful wife and given this title, and not as a concubine, though of this the Wittenbergers were not aware.
— from Luther, vol. 4 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Their instructions were to hold on to these trenches at all costs till relieved.
— from The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest, Lord

I am not at all certain that either the British or the American officer works as hard as the German in time of peace.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer

Terry, being thus implicated, was arrested and committed to gaol; but the prosecutors for the crown, after the bills of indictment were preferred against all three, finding their proof insufficient to obtain a conviction at the coming assizes, prevailed on the judge to hold the case over until the Lammas Assizes.
— from Eighteenth Century Waifs by John Ashton