Mrs. Nickleby having fallen imperceptibly into one of her retrospective moods, improved in temper from that moment, and glided, by an easy change of the conversation occasionally, into various other anecdotes, no less remarkable for their strict application to the subject in hand.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

You are no longer young, and he who is with you is too old to protect you from those who would attack you.
— from The Iliad by Homer

MY FANCY GOOD-BYE MY FANCY AN OLD MAN'S REJOINDER OLD POETS Ship Ahoy For Queen Victoria's Birthday AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE AMERICAN NATIONAL LITERATURE GATHERING THE CORN A DEATH BOUQUET
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

“But two million francs make a nice little sum,” replied Morcerf.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Whence Adam soon repealed The doubts that in his heart arose: and now Led on, yet sinless, with desire to know What nearer might concern him, how this world Of Heaven and Earth conspicuous first began; When, and whereof created; for what cause; What within Eden, or without, was done Before his memory; as one whose drouth Yet scarce allayed still eyes the current stream, Whose liquid murmur heard new thirst excites, Proceeded thus to ask his heavenly guest.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Mark me—I say this—perhaps mine own sentiments of honour are not less fantastic, Rebecca, than thine are; but we know alike how to die for them.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

120 Then turned he back, and ran like those who strive For the Green Cloth [478] upon Verona’s plain; And seemed like him that shall the first arrive, And not like him that labours all in vain.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

"Are you—are you fond—of—of dogs?" The Mouse did not answer, so Alice went on eagerly: "There is such a nice little dog near our house I should like to show you!
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Illustrated by Arthur Rackham. With a Proem by Austin Dobson by Lewis Carroll

I TOLD the Christian reader—I say Christian ——hoping he is one——and if he is not, I am sorry for it——and only beg he will consider the matter with himself, and not lay the blame entirely upon this book—— I told him, Sir——for in good truth, when a man is telling a story in the strange way I do mine, he is obliged continually to be going backwards and forwards to keep all tight together in the 224 reader’s fancy——which, for my own part, if I did not take heed to do more than at first, there is so much unfixed and equivocal matter starting up, with so many breaks and gaps in
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

If you are not located in the United States, you'll have to check the laws of the country where you are located before using this ebook.
— from Jane Austen and Her Times by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Here was a regular cañon as straight as a street and nearly level, whose sides were almost perpendicular and extremely picturesque.
— from Farthest North The Life and Explorations of Lieutenant James Booth Lockwood, of the Greely Arctic Expedition by Charles Lanman

And what if God will cross his book, and blot out the handwriting that is against thee, and not let thee know it as yet?
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

It’s such a new life for her—try to see it for yourself—such a new life.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

Before Sir Walter was carried to his rest in the family vault in Carnbee kirkyard it was known all over Fife that Kellie Castle and estates had been left by his will neither to his sister nor to the next of kin, but to the head of the family, my Lord Oliphant, then in London with King James, and not likely to put himself to much trouble in doing honour to the funeral.
— from A Widow's Tale, and Other Stories by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The huge leaves are cut near the root, and new leaves grow up at once.
— from Fil and Filippa: Story of Child Life in the Philippines by John Stuart Thomson

If death terrifies us in its austere nakedness, let us look at the love which can transfigure it, and can make our last hour the happiest, and above all, the most precious in our life.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

“Ah, now, let her!”
— from The Turned-About Girls by Beulah Marie Dix

This fact has influenced the approach to all continental towns, they are not led up to as in England; and the poor are lodged differently—they occupy big houses, which they delight in making untidy, and exposing the dishevelled condition of their dwellings to every passer-by.
— from Old Country Life by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould