After drinking it, he exclaimed, "Why, this Satan's drink is so delicious that it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

How sweetly they sing there; it is quite a pleasure to listen to them!
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

For how were it otherwise possible to know a priori these laws, as they are not rules of analytical cognition, but truly synthetical extensions of it?
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

as, postquam tuās litterās lēgī, Postumia tua mē convēnit , Fam.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

As Mrs. Vincent Crummles recrossed back to the table, there bounded on to the stage from some mysterious inlet, a little girl in a dirty white frock with tucks up to the knees, short trousers, sandaled shoes, white spencer, pink gauze bonnet, green veil and curl papers; who turned a pirouette, cut twice in the air, turned another pirouette, then, looking off at the opposite wing, shrieked, bounded forward to within six inches of the footlights, and fell into a beautiful attitude of terror, as a shabby gentleman in an old pair of buff slippers came in at one powerful slide, and chattering his teeth, fiercely brandished a walking-stick.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

To coin new words is a pretension to legislation in language which is seldom successful; and, before recourse is taken to so desperate an expedient, it is advisable to examine the dead and learned languages, with the hope and the probability that we may there meet with some adequate expression of the notion we have in our minds.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

This I understood as an attempt to lessen, if possible, that disinclination which my interest might be supposed to give me towards the match; and I know not but in some measure it had that effect; for, as I was well contented with my own fortune, and of all people the least a slave to interested views, so I could not be violently the enemy of a man with whose behaviour to me I was greatly pleased; and the more so, as I was the only object of such respect; for he behaved at the same time to many women of quality without any respect at all.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

As they reached the Place de la Bastille, Dulac said to Schoelcher, "I will ask permission to leave you for an hour or two, for this reason: I am alone in Paris with my little daughter, who is seven years old.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Many of my little readers have owned tame rabbits; but I doubt if they ever had for a pet the little wild rabbit who lives in the woods, and, at the South, builds his nest above ground.
— from The Nursery, July 1877, XXII. No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers by Various

I am told that you are more powerful than any man on earth, and as I am powerful too, let us try which is the strongest.’
— from The Brown Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

So he began looking this way and that for a place to leave the child.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

“A bill ordering the payment of the expenses of his journey, found in Simancas, states, among other curious details, that he left Augsburg in December, accompanied by Ludovico Taxis, an official of the Imperial Post, and two servants, and passed through Lyon in France.
— from Spanish Arms and Armour Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid by Albert Frederick Calvert

Proud, not without reason, [ 437 ] of their own form of government, wherein there is no room for a titled aristocracy, they delight in holding the peerage of Great Britain up to contempt (withal that there is a curious unconfessed strain of jealousy mingling therewith), and piecing together, like a child playing with bricks, the not too infrequent appearances of individual peers in the divorce or bankruptcy courts, they have constructed a fantastic image of the British aristocracy as a whole, wherein every member appears as either a roué or a spendthrift.
— from The Twentieth Century American Being a Comparative Study of the Peoples of the Two Great Anglo-Saxon Nations by Harry Perry Robinson

He gazed indifferently at the heap of coin and paper that lay on the table, and which, by the law of play, was now his own.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

Throughout the Middle Ages those strange haunting echoes to the perpetual chant of litany and psalm, the Latin student-songs, float across all Europe with their profane and gay paganism, their fresh erotic grace, their “ In taberna quando sumus ,” their “ Ludo cum Cæcilia ,” their “ Gaudeamus igitur .”
— from The New Spirit Third Edition by Havelock Ellis

In August 1793 Alan was appointed major-commandant, and preceded to Lochaber to raise a regiment, which afterwards was embodied as the 79th, or Cameron Highlanders.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

While a person lives, I expect a person to live.
— from Jezebel's Daughter by Wilkie Collins