Howiver, if Tom's to go to a new school, I should like him to go where I can wash him and mend him; else he might as well have calico as linen, for they'd be one as yallow as th' other before they'd been washed half-a-dozen times.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“My guest is he,” she thought, “and I, To 'scape his curse, must needs reply:” “Child of a noble sire I spring From Janak, fair Videha's king.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Accordingly I shall neither waste time in dwelling on the guilt of this man before you, from whose cruelty ye have rescued yourselves by force of arms, nor shall I suffer him to add impudence to his other enormous crimes in defending himself.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

I , Apiciana Newton, Sir Isaac, scientist, Apiciana No. 8 , p.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

I am not squeamish in such cases when manners are concerned.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

( Amen !) come, pore and needy, sunk in shame!
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The great division of history into phases by Turgot and Comte first affirmed this law in its outlines by asserting the unity of progress, for a mere phase interrupts no growth, and nature shows innumerable such phases.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Pangloss was in despair at not shining in some German university.
— from Candide by Voltaire

' Emily calmly said, 'I am not so ignorant, Signor, of the laws on this subject, as to be misled by the assertion of any person.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

I shall never hear his voice again, nor shall I see his smooth tan-and-pink face with a white line on the forehead, and the youthful eyes darkened by excitement to a profound, unfathomable blue.’ H2 anchor CHAPTER 37 ‘It all begins with a remarkable exploit of a man called Brown, who stole with complete success a Spanish schooner out of a small bay near Zamboanga.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Among them are many pots and stone bowls of undoubted late Neolithic type, with whole classes of objects which did not occur at Naqada, stelæ, inscribed scarabs of limestone, and clay seals stamped with the Ka names of kings.
— from El Kab by James Edward Quibell

They then opened fire with a 12-pounder howitzer from the west side of the Gumti, when [Page 175] a really most extraordinary incident happened, which I am not sure I should have the courage to relate, were it not that Sir Dighton Probyn and Sir John Watson, who were close by and saw what took place, are able to vouch for the accuracy of my story.
— from Forty-one years in India: from subaltern to commander-in-chief by Roberts, Frederick Sleigh Roberts, Earl

Outside the limits of party interests, and uninfluenced personally by the predominance of either faction, he had worked out in his own way the problem of national life, and now spread its solution before his readers.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

"It is rather a serious business, Gerald; and a nice scrape I should get in if it were found out that I had solemnized the marriage of a young lady under age without the consent of her father, and that father a powerful nobleman.
— from By England's Aid; Or, the Freeing of the Netherlands, 1585-1604 by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

If it were not supernatural, it could not be properly called the Light of Jesus; for though all Things be his, and of him, and from him; yet those Things which are common and peculiar to our Nature, as being a Part of it, we are not said in so special a Manner to have from Christ.
— from An Apology for the True Christian Divinity Being an explanation and vindication of the principles and doctrines of the people called Quakers by Robert Barclay

This will be my last letter; but I am not sure I shall set out before the middle of next week.
— from Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume II by Horace Walpole

Of Sheriff Morgan, except that a new sheriff is soon appointed, we have no farther notice whatever."
— from Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various