I imitate neither Manfred nor Anthony; but without words, protestations, or vows, my life has entwined itself with yours; you leave me, and you are right in doing so,—I repeat it, you are right; but in losing you, I lose my life.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

As the whole pathway of religious history is thickly be-studded with miracles wrought in all ages and countries, and every page of the oriental bibles and religious books is literally loaded down with the relation of these marvelous prodigies said to have been wrought by their Gods, Demigods, and crucified Saviors, it places a writer in a quandary to know where to begin to make a selection.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Ainsworth, Robert, born in Lancashire, 1660, earned his living by keeping a private school in or near London, and died there in 1743.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Aldeiga burns, and Eirik's might Scours through all Russia by its light.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

A little rubbing of the limbs soon brought her round, and I had the satisfaction of seeing she was all right before I left her.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"We're not all reasonable beings," I laughed.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

They are rejected by Isaac, lib.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Here was a religion which gave to the searching mind a rational basis in life, the concept of an immense Loving Power working steadily out through them, toward good.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Xerxes seems to have entirely abandoned Attica, so that the Athenians returned without further contest to their homes: not, indeed, to enjoy them in quiet, but to give a fresh example of disinterestedness and devotion to the cause of their allies requited by ingratitude little short of treachery.
— from Historical Parallels, vol. 2 of 3) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

Then came a fight hand to hand, but the enemy stood in a clamp; not to split like a nut between crackers, they gave way and rolled, backing in lumps from bank to ditch.
— from Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete by George Meredith

Asher sits still by the shore of the sea, And remains by its landings.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent

Like a flash the horsemen wheeled and raced back into Ladysmith.
— from With Steyn and De Wet by F. F. (Filippus Fourie) Pienaar