'No,' said her aunt faintly, 'no—I have nothing new to tell him.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“Murderer Franklin Blake would be a fitter name for him.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Whatever individuality and moral value these bits of substance may have they acquire for him, as for nature, incidentally and by virtue of ulterior relations consequent on their physical being.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

His grey looks became him well, and he had a full neck.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

[23] This will in some measure account for numerous classical and learned words figuring as Cant terms in the vulgar dictionary.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“I am very sorry to make your mouth water, but these, as you know, are five new gold pieces.”
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

They also offered thank-offerings, both for their good success, and for the preservation of their army, for not one of the Jews was slain in these battles.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[88] which resembles the following one; “two are not a few, nor three, nor those, nor four, and so on to ten; but two are few; therefore, so are ten few.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

Geʻyăgu′ga (for Age′hyă-guga ?)—a formulistic name for the moon ( nûñ′dă′ ); it cannot be analyzed, but seems to contain the word age′hyă , “woman.”
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Frontinus, to whose work de Aqueductibus we owe almost all that we know about the Roman water-supply, tells us that for four hundred and forty-one years after the foundation of the city the Romans contented themselves with such water as they could get from the Tiber, from wells, and from natural springs, and adds that some of the springs were in his day still held in honour on account of their health-giving qualities.[66] Cicero describes Rome, in his idealising way, as "locum fontibus abundantem," and twenty-three springs are known to have existed; but as early 312 B.C. it was found necessary to seek elsewhere for a purer and more regular supply.
— from Social life at Rome in the Age of Cicero by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

Let's assume for now he means it, but in the meantime we proceed as planned.
— from Project Daedalus by Thomas Hoover

It must have seemed to you a likelier source of profit to withhold any information you might have to give at the solicitation of a rich man, than to give it free gratis and for nothing to a detective.
— from The Evil Shepherd by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

It was a forbidding night.
— from Nan of Music Mountain by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Instead of a farm, new buildings close to the house itself were begun.
— from Letters of Anton Chekhov to His Family and Friends by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And there was a woman, here near him, a woman with a sweet and fragrant nature—so the old clergyman had said.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

To him eating and sleeping were Energy's warehousemen; idleness was dry-rot, moth, and mildew; laughing, talking, whistling, singing, somersets, and fishing, never-to-be-neglected and in-constant-use safety-valves.
— from Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885 by Various

I could scarcely repress my tears as you told me how you, an aged, feeble woman labored so hard for that young, strong and vigorous girl to sustain her in a false notion of life.
— from Overshadowed: A Novel by Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert) Griggs

No; I can recognize a few names in it.
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission