“It is arranged capitally; his eminence expects me in half an hour.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

I was an unknown foreigner, and could have easily evaded payment with impunity, yet no London shopkeeper ever mistrusted me.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

( b. ) nēmō nisi vīctor pāce bellum mūtāvit , S. C. 58, 15, nobody except a conqueror has ever exchanged war for peace .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

[317] Abbé Calmet, "Histoire Ecclésiastique et Civile de Lorraine," i. 190.
— from Christina of Denmark, Duchess of Milan and Lorraine, 1522-1590 by Julia Cartwright

When you have decided to sit a hen, give her a good nest and 15 eggs and at the same time give a common hen eight eggs.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 711, August 17, 1889 by Various

The Sacraments that increase sanctifying grace in our soul are: Confirmation, Holy Eucharist, Extreme Unction, Holy Orders, and Matrimony; and they are called Sacraments of the living.
— from A Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Anonymous

It is probable -80- that the very greatest disquietude which a child had ever experienced was Pandora's vexation at not being able to discover the secret of the mysterious box.
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The woman threw back her head and closed her eyes, every nerve throbbing felinely under the caress she loved.
— from The Return of the Prodigal by May Sinclair

He offered them what they said they would lose; to this they agreed, and he paid them, and closing his eyes engaged in prayer; when he had ended, he looked up, and his congregation had vanished!
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

The 16-day march was worse than any Coffee had ever experienced, because the area was interlaced with streams and covered with heavy undergrowth.
— from Tennessee at the Battle of New Orleans by Elbert L. Watson

They begin very nice, with their new carpets and teaspoons, and a little mending to do, and coming home early evenings to talk; but by and by the shine wears off.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Lady Temple had run forward as the King fell; Portland and Leeds raised and carried him, easily enough, into the antechamber.
— from God and the King by Marjorie Bowen

They have been so accustomed to haul at ropes, tug at the oar, and dabble in the tar-bucket, that they have, like their owner, lost, I fear me, all civilised habits and customs,” he exclaimed, exhibiting his horny-palmed, thoroughly-bronzed hand.
— from Antony Waymouth; Or, The Gentlemen Adventurers by William Henry Giles Kingston