if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damn’d: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh’s lean kine are to be loved.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A 'stream' of thought, for aught that we see to be contained in its essence, may come to a full stop at any moment; but a simple substance is incorruptible, and will, by its own inertia, persist in Being so long as the Creator does not by a direct miracle snuff it out.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Education, to do anything, must be a state education; or there must be enough agreed in it to make a current.”
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Where else abroad could she live as well for so little, and have as many baths as she like, for eight shillings a day?
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

pretty while, it being dusky, and kissed her and so away home and writ my letters, and then home to supper, where the brother and Mary Batelier are still and Mercer’s two sisters.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In a season of tranquillity, Sallust had resigned without a murmur; but as soon as the public safety was attacked, he ambitiously solicited the preeminence of toil and danger; and the restoration of that virtuous minister to the praefecture of the East, was the first step which indicated the repentance of Valens, and satisfied the minds of the people.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The curate was tired and would not look into any more books, and so he decided that, "contents uncertified," all the rest should be burned; but just then the barber held open one, called "The Tears of Angelica."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The pleadings would have wearied me if I had been a blind man, but as it was I amused myself by a scrutiny of the various physiognomies before me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

This Sam was a native of Charleston, where he had a mother, brother and sisters.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

He had not been gone a minute before another severe quake shook the city so that it seemed as if the earth rose and fell in billows.
— from Polly and Her Friends Abroad by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

We have not learned to love until we are living the highest possible life, in order that the object of our affection may become a saint.
— from Letters to His Friends by Forbes Robinson

"Know then that a serpent wants your daughter for his wife, and I am come to try if we can make a match between a serpent and a dove!"
— from Stories from the Pentamerone by Giambattista Basile

Within a few days the state of Toro shall be mine, even though all my brothers and sisters should unite for its defence."
— from The Cid Campeador: A Historical Romance by Antonio de Trueba

Those people are unhappy, saith Master Talkon, especially such as live in Country Towns, that are near to Cities where there are Universities; for many times one or another must be a sufferer from these roguish natured Students; and they imagine in themselves that all what the Country people possess must be at their pleasure and disposition.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

Perhaps we may also trace a further purpose in their creation, in compelling by the terror they inspire the inferior animals to submit themselves to man, who is alone able to protect them against their formidable enemies, or to congregate, so that he may easily find them when he requires food; and may we not further infer that man also may by a similar sense of weakness be led to invoke in like manner the aid of Him who made all things and governs all things?
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

As Morris Blood, after some talk with Mr. Brock, approached, Louise nodded to him.
— from The Daughter of a Magnate by Frank H. (Frank Hamilton) Spearman

Then he said to Einar of Thvera, his brother, "Thou shalt go with all my band, and stand by Njal's sons when the courts go out to try suits; but if they need help next summer, then I myself will yield them help."
— from The Story of Burnt Njal: The Great Icelandic Tribune, Jurist, and Counsellor by Unknown

He want to go home to see father and mother, brother and sister.
— from Peter Trawl; Or, The Adventures of a Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

the colon in "by the Douglas:" is unclear and may be a semi-colon p. 307
— from The Three Perils of Man; or, War, Women, and Witchcraft, Vol. 3 (of 3) by James Hogg