Never did the purity, truth and force of my attachment to her appear more evident; never did I feel the sincerity and honesty of my soul more forcibly, than at that moment.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Thence to Westminster Hall, and there walked long with Mr. Creed, and then to the great half-a-crown ordinary, at the King’s Head, near Charing Cross, where we had a most excellent neat dinner and very high company, and in a noble manner.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The builder smiled politely but pitifully when he gazed at my efforts next day.
— from Between the Larch-woods and the Weir by Flora Klickmann

My next enquiries were concerning Philippa and her Husband, the latter of whom I learned having spent all her fortune, had recourse for subsistence to the talent in which, he had always most excelled, namely, Driving, and that having sold every thing which belonged to them except their Coach, had converted it into a Stage and in order to be removed from any of his former Acquaintance, had driven it to Edinburgh from whence he went to Sterling every other Day.
— from Love and Freindship [sic] by Jane Austen

giggled Anna Maria, evidently not displeased.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

Thereupon Miss Livermore gave a most emphatic 'no!' declaring with foreknowledge and aplomb that 'the Great King will ride this horse, and it is I, as his bride, who will ride upon the other at his second coming.'
— from John Greenleaf Whittier: His Life, Genius, and Writings by William Sloane Kennedy

There are many errors, no doubt, to be found in Gibbon.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 by Various

'Price will be buttering up Geoff at my expense, no doubt.
— from The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys by M. B. Manwell

De Rochas experimented on a single subject, Lina, formerly a model, who was placed in a condition of slight hypnosis, when various simple fragments of music were performed: recitatives, popular airs, and more especially national dances, often from remote parts of the world.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man by Havelock Ellis

I remembered France and my Emperor, now depending on the arbitrament of war, bent down, fighting on their knees and with their teeth against so many and such various assailants.
— from St. Ives: Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Louis Stevenson

“Nevertheless,” said Gerald, “if she is my equal, I wish she weren’t a teacher, because I don’t think teachers as a rule are my equal.” “Nor do I, damn them.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Disher house was full up all de time wid comp'ny; gran' comp'ny, what dress all de time in silk an' go walkin' 'bout under de trees an' ridin' 'bout over de prairie Page 29 in de day time; and mos' every night dey call my ole man in to play
— from Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories by M. T. W.