“I valued it much,” said Mazarin, giving a last look at it; “nevertheless, I give it to you with great pleasure.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It brought its own world—a mediaeval world, where there are men who made the ancient language live again in new psalms of exile.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

In one case, for instance, a man has intercourse once a month and finds this sufficient; he has no nocturnal emissions nor any strong desires in the interval; yet he leads an idle and luxurious life and is not restrained by any moral or religious scruples; if he much exceeds the frequency which suits him he suffers from ill-health, though otherwise quite healthy except for a weak digestion.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis

"What I mean in detail will keep till a little later, and I need only say now that I should not have spoken in this way unless I were quite positive of being able to help you.
— from Three John Silence Stories by Algernon Blackwood

But Gloucester is the real port of the Severn, a clean and pleasant city, and like Worcester has two long main streets meeting where an ancient cross stood, and still in name stands; for the heart of the city, unlike the other, is a mile from the Severn as well as lower lying, and its navigation is effected by canals.
— from The Rivers and Streams of England by A. G. (Arthur Granville) Bradley

The first Lord Leicester of the present creation (1775-1844) told my father (1807-1894) that, when he was a boy, his grandfather had taken him on his knee and said, "Now, my dear Tom, whatever [361] else you do in life, mind you never trust a Tory;" and Lord Leicester added, "I never have, and, by George, I never will."
— from Seeing and Hearing by George William Erskine Russell

There are, however, two scrapings evidently alphabetic, and probably Nabathæan, which are offered to the specialists in epigraphy: six appear in Wellsted's illustration, especially that with a long line above it, near the left and lower corner of the cut.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

“Ah! sure [ 88 ] enough it is Laura, and such a looking Laura as I never saw before.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

Nevertheless, they fall at once under the spell of a force which introduces into their operations an order altogether new, for it somehow strikes across all the laws of dead matter, setting up a new code of its own, which endures just so long as life lasts, and is never met with apart from life.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

All legal land alienations in New York were, after the custom originating in Holland, and thence borrowed by the American colonists and made a national procedure in all the United States, duly registered; and into these examination must be made.
— from Sir William Johnson and the Six Nations by William Elliot Griffis