I would have asked why Mrs. Dean had deserted the Grange, but it was impossible to delay her at such a crisis, so I turned away and made my exit, rambling leisurely along, with the glow of a sinking sun behind, and the mild glory of a rising moon in front—one fading, and the other brightening—as I quitted the park, and climbed the stony by-road branching off to Mr. Heathcliff’s dwelling.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

"These girls were anxious to be good, and made many excellent resolutions; but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If we only had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many pleasant things they actually could do.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

[171] RED APPLE MINUTAL MINUTAL EX ROSIS
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

"These girls were anxious to be good and made many excellent resolutions, but they did not keep them very well, and were constantly saying, 'If only we had this,' or 'If we could only do that,' quite forgetting how much they already had, and how many things they actually could do.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Ex sepulchris apparent mense Martio, et rursus sub terram se abscondunt, &c. 3045 .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

These books obtained relatively a much more extensive recognition in Germany than in England.
— from Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century by Harvey W. (Harvey Waterman) Hewett-Thayer

The spiritual work of a mission must ever remain its principal work if it is to succeed in the highest sense.
— from India's Problem, Krishna or Christ by John P. (John Peter) Jones

When at last Diana and Marcantonio met, each rested and refreshed, he looked the less weary of the two.
— from To Leeward by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

As for the second part of the adventures I do not believe any matured man ever read it a second time unless for curious or literary purposes.
— from The Delicious Vice by Young Ewing Allison

But if a thousand years or so would take in the origin of both Lowestoft and Yarmouth, questions have arisen affecting the relations of these towns which involve a much more extended retrospect.
— from Lowestoft in olden times by Francis Davy Longe

It is only the concrete and individual that as such can exist actually; the abstract and universal as such cannot exist actually: abstractness and universality are mental modes— entia rationis —annexed by the mind to the real content of its concepts: considered as thought-objects they are themselves not real entities: they do not affect reality as given to us in our experience.
— from Ontology, or the Theory of Being by P. (Peter) Coffey

By concerted action men may effect reforms which shall affect their condition.
— from A Desk-Book of Errors in English Including Notes on Colloquialisms and Slang to be Avoided in Conversation by Frank H. Vizetelly

But this was a small miracle to effect by such means; for by uttering this name a man may even raise the dead.
— from Arabian Society in the Middle Ages: Studies From The Thousand and One Nights by Edward William Lane

Do you think for a moment Mary ever regretted it?
— from The Little Red Chimney: Being the Love Story of a Candy Man by Mary Finley Leonard