I remember a line in Dryden,— "And every poet is the monarch's friend.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

"So you are left in disgust, are you?" said he.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

Being asked if he could remember Queen Anne, 'He had (he said) a confused, but somehow a sort of solemn recollection of a lady in diamonds, and a long black hood.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

However, those who are fond of society from time to time may profit by this simile, and lay it down as a general rule that deficiency of quality in those we meet may be to some extent compensated by an increase in quantity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

When a proposition is enunciated you must imagine the proof; that is, you must discover on what proposition already learnt it depends, and of all the possible deductions from that proposition you must choose just the one required.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But for this at last I did advise to him to take another clerk if he thinks fit, I will take care to have him paid.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The necessary impulse had been given to the affairs of the Convention, the delegates had visited the members, the preparations for the presentation of the National Petition had been completed; the overthrow of the whig government, the abortive effort of Sir Robert Peel, the return of the whig administration, and the consequent measures, had occasioned a delay of two months in the presentation of the great document: it was well for Gerard to remain, who was a leader in debate, and whose absence for a week would have endangered his position as the head of a party, but these considerations did not influence Morley, who had already found great inconvenience in managing his journal at a distance; so, about the middle of May, he had returned to Mowbray, coming up occasionally by the train if anything important were stirring, or his vote could be of service to his friend and colleague.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

One thing more that troubles me was my being forced to promise to give half of what personal estate could be found more than L372, which I reported to them, which though I do not know it to be less than what we really have found, yet he would have been glad to have been at liberty for that, but at last I did agree to it under my own handwriting on the backside of the report I did make and did give them of the estate, and have taken a copy of it upon the backside of one that I have.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

the words are τὰ κατὰ τὴν Φρυγίαν καὶ Λυδίαν, the two names being under the vinculum of the one article: while immediately afterwards Lydia is dropped and Phrygia alone named, πέμψαι τινὰς ...
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

At length it discharges a thin fluid, which is sometimes mingled with pus, and generally with more or less blood.
— from The Dog by W. N. (William Nelson) Hutchinson

At last, in despair, Allan stopped, saying it was useless going on any further.
— from Raiders of the Sarhad Being an Account of the Campaign of Arms and Bluff Against the Brigands of the Persian-Baluchi Border during the Great War by R. E. H. (Reginald Edward Harry) Dyer

A sharp stone had cut into one of the front shoes, making a hole about as large in diameter as a slate pencil.
— from The Rover Boys on a Tour; or, Last Days at Brill College by Edward Stratemeyer

Broad and large in dimensions as in design, and marked by high creative genius, are some of the works 245 that illustrate the name of this potent artist—works that summon to their exposition vocal and instrumental multitude :—but these it is hardly requisite here to particularize.
— from The Violin Some Account of That Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time; with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, etc. by George Dubourg

As soon as we came home, of course I found it all out; and I got a large bough of wattle and lowered it down, and so she was saved when she was very nearly gone.
— from A Mere Chance: A Novel. Vol. 3 by Ada Cambridge

In the first place, the majority of ancient critics regarded him as later in date and more removed from the heroic age.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

If I fail, which I do not expect, I will preserve my life as Lodin is doing; and the Fearless One here shall take his turn.
— from The Thrall of Leif the Lucky: A Story of Viking Days by Ottilie A. (Ottilia Adelina) Liljencrantz

We pulled the first ladder up as we clung to the pickets, and let it down again inside.
— from The Treasure-Train by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

In this position another line is drawn, and so on.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 by Various

I do not know just what the reader would expect me to say in defence of the full-length figure of a lady in decollete and trained evening dress, who enters from the tomb toward the spectator as if she were coming into a drawing-room after dinner.
— from Roman Holidays, and Others by William Dean Howells