“Uncle Abe really has predicted a storm for sometime this spring,” said Gilbert, “but do you suppose Mr. Harrison really does go to see Isabella Andrews?” “No,” said Anne, laughing, “I’m sure he only goes to play checkers with Mr. Harrison Andrews, but Mrs. Lynde says she knows Isabella Andrews must be going to get married, she’s in such good spirits this spring.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

“And you are not so any longer?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Though Shatov and Kirillov lived in the same yard they hardly ever saw each other, and when they met they did not nod or speak: they had been too long “lying side by side” in America.… “Kirillov, you always have tea; have you got tea and a samovar?” Kirillov, who was walking up and down the room, as he was in the habit of doing all night, stopped and looked intently at his hurried visitor, though without much surprise.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Now no man deliberates respecting things which cannot be otherwise than they are, nor such as lie not within the range of his own action: and so, since Knowledge requires strict demonstrative reasoning, of which Contingent matter does not admit (I say Contingent matter, because all matters of deliberation must be Contingent and deliberation cannot take place with respect to things which are Necessarily), Practical Wisdom cannot be Knowledge nor Art; nor the former, because what falls under the province of Doing must be Contingent; not the latter, because Doing and Making are different in kind.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

A man likes his wife to be accomplished, gentle, affectionate, and not stupid; and Lucy had all these qualifications.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

When, from aloft, almighty Jove surveys Earth, air, and shores, and navigable seas, At length on Libyan realms he fix’d his eyes:
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

When the citizens of a community are classed according to their rank, their profession, or their birth, and when all men are constrained to follow the career which happens to open before them, everyone thinks that the utmost limits of human power are to be discerned in proximity to himself, and none seeks any longer to resist the inevitable law of his destiny.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Only met with the Comptroller at the office a little both forenoon and afternoon, and at night step a little with him to the Coffee House where we light upon very good company and had very good discourse concerning insects and their having a generative faculty as well as other creatures.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And they go all naked save a little clout, that they cover with their knees and their members.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

The king told us to stand well out towards the middle of the river, and not show a light till we got a long ways below the town.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Mobs are not so altogether lovely that one should desire their indefinite increase.
— from Gala-Days by Gail Hamilton

And nothing more edifying was ever seen than the close union that prevailed between those two illustrious ladies, who never left each other's side, taking all their meals alone, although they were accompanied by a numerous suite, and living in a constant communion of thought and in the still enjoyment of a mutual and most touching affection.
— from Their Majesties as I Knew Them Personal Reminiscences of the Kings and Queens of Europe by Xavier Paoli

Walls are lost where least interesting, bits of architecture are brought out in relief against the velvet sky, and sculptures take on a new softness and loveliness of form.
— from An Art-Lovers Guide to the Exposition Explanations of the Architecture, Sculpture and Mural Paintings, With a Guide for Study in the Art Gallery by Sheldon Cheney

And thei gon alle naked, saf a litylle clout, that thei coveren with here knees and hire membres.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

"When I was younger than I am now," says a lawyer who is still somewhat this side of middle age, "I had a position in the office of a man who has a big reputation.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

And yet it would mean a new solitude and loneliness to her, her husband, of necessity, being away through all the long daylight hours.
— from The Canadian Photoplay title of The Land of Promise by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

Is there a noble sentiment, a lofty thought, a sublime conception, in the book?
— from Lady Byron Vindicated: A History of the Byron Controversy by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Other articles were proportionally increased in market-value; but it is worthy of remark that mutton was quoted in the midst of the famine at nine stuyvers (a little more than ninepence sterling) the pound, and beef at fivepence, while a single cod-fish sold for twenty-two florins.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) by John Lothrop Motley

To westward they could follow the river till it was hidden behind a green projecting point which shut in the Bay of Sillery, while away to the west and north stretched a long succession of blue hills, with white villages gleaming among their wooded sides, amidst which, too, they could trace the silvery ribbon of the St. Charles, winding its way down out of the shadowy recesses of the distant mountains.
— from Down the River to the Sea by Agnes Maule Machar

He hurried his pace as much as possible over the road, and now saw a lone horseman speeding like the wind toward him.
— from The Nightriders' Feud by Walter Caruth McConnell