A strange thing, indeed, that those words, "two or three times," nothing more than a few words, words uttered in the air, at a distance, could so lacerate a man's heart, as if they had actually pierced it, could sicken a man, like a poison that he had drunk.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

And perhaps I cannot better end these hesitating words than with that tribute from one who called this master, friend, and whose lament cried in the night with more of depth and passion than Alfred Noyes is wont in his self-repression to voice:
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

But, had I married a princess, I could not have done so.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Each dairy, with its accompanying buildings and pasturage, is called a ti mad, or ti village.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

But to add to his grief, this mysteriousness, this supernatural, weird power gave the woman beside him a peculiar, incomprehensible charm of which he had not been conscious before.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

and if we are poor, I can work for both.”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In 1910, there were 151,000 acres planted in coffee.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I replied carelessly, and partly in contempt, mentioned the names of my alchemists as the principal authors I had studied.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

How many clerks, cashiers, clergymen, editors, and professors in colleges have lost position and prestige by carelessness and inaccuracy!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

It is certainly a pleasing industrial city.
— from Studies in the South and West, with Comments on Canada by Charles Dudley Warner

Pursue a perfectly impartial course, as you ought and must do, towards the Canadians, and show them that they are as much British citizens as the people of Toronto are, and you may count upon their loyalty and devotion without fear.
— from Canada and the Canadians, Vol. 1 by Bonnycastle, Richard Henry, Sir

Besides, when one knows how to use one's reason a little, it becomes impossible to credit the foolish things which are put into circulation.
— from Truth [Vérité] by Émile Zola

One at Cassel [No. 212] almost certainly represents "Coppenol, the Caligraphist," and an admirable picture in Captain Holford's collection, is undoubtedly "Martin Looten," a merchant of Amsterdam; while, even in that busy year, he found time once to paint his own portrait.
— from Rembrandt van Rijn by Malcolm Bell

On the ground floor there is a passageway into chamber b , which is considerably enlarged, although the position of the lintel is clearly indicated by notches in the wall.
— from Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Jesse Walter Fewkes

Necessary to such as practise Physic, Pharmacy, Chemistry, &c., entertaining to the Curious, the Divine and Philosopher, in contemplating these wonderful Productions,—useful to Painters, Heralds, Carvers, Designers, Gardeners, etc.
— from The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde

A PITIFUL INCIDENT CHAPTER XXXVI.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

But the pestilential diseases so often mentioned by poets and historians as prevailing in cities and armies, were probably nothing else but fevers, produced partly perhaps by the scarcity and bad quality of provisions, but probably still more by corrupted human effluvia, which was very apt to he produced by the want of personal cleanliness, to which the mode of cloathing among the ancients would more particularly subject them, especially in camps and besieged towns.
— from Observations on the Diseases of Seamen by Blane, Gilbert, Sir