There'll be a remand, no doubt.
— from The Silver Box: A Comedy in Three Acts by John Galsworthy

In his Indian captivity, moreover, he had gained much knowledge of the properties of native herbs and roots; nor did he conceal from his patients, that these simple medicines, Nature's boon to the untutored savage, had quite as large a share of his own confidence as the European pharmacopœia, which so many learned doctors had spent centuries in elaborating.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

A Negro slum may be in dangerous proximity to a white residence quarter, while it is quite common to find a white slum planted in the heart of a respectable Negro district.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

He is notorious as an over-zealous missionary, who cherished the Boanergian spirit more than the spirit of Christ towards his brethren, and he is only mentioned here on account of the famous controversy he held at the palace of King James with the great Rabbi Nahmonides, when he tried to prove from the Talmud the truth of Christianity, and Rabbi Nahmonides declared that he did not believe in the Haggadic stories of the Talmud.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

ANT: Recite, narrate, detail.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

There seems to have been always and everywhere (or nearly so) a belief in a race, neither divine nor human, but very like to human beings, who existed on a ‘plane’ different from that of humans, though occupying the same space.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

In a room next door to the kitchen, where he suffered me to go, I found a great number of books, both Latin and English, in which I took great pleasure all the afternoon.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

How high up in military activity the admissibility of method in action reaches naturally determines itself, not according to actual rank, but according to things; and it affects the highest positions in a less degree, only because these positions have the most comprehensive subjects of activity.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

But when Alyosha went in, he leapt up from the bench on which he was sitting, and, hastily wiping his mouth with a ragged napkin, darted up to Alyosha.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Punctual as the clock we presented ourselves at his door on the following morning, when our papers were returned to us with the observation—“These trifles are really not deficient in smartness; they are well, vastly well, for beginners; but they will never do—never.
— from Rejected Addresses; Or, The New Theatrum Poetarum by Horace Smith

Unconquered Briton, you are right no doubt!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, August 19th 1893 by Various

Of her mother, Caroline Louisa Sieveking, whom she lost before she had completed her fifth year, Amelia retained no distinct recollection.
— from Model Women by William Anderson

If there be any place where banks, organized under a national charter, issuing a national currency, and receiving national deposits, should be encouraged, it is here.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

Well," answered the doctor; "but instead of crossing Lincoln, I propose going through Jones's Sound on the ice, and reaching North Devon."
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne

Ursula did not at all rebel, nor did she make painful contrasts in her mind, as so many young people do; asking why are others so well off, and I so badly off?
— from Phoebe, Junior by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

There seemed, at any rate, no doubt in her mind that she could command me.
— from The Little Nugget by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

He did not want to buy books like Albert and Richard, neither did he care for drinking in Rye pubs with fishermen like Jemmy.
— from Sussex Gorse: The Story of a Fight by Sheila Kaye-Smith

The Greeks and Romans never dreamed of any such thing.
— from Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity by Robert Patterson

" David : "You mean it didn't come from those 'Hotels'?" Praed : "Well, at any rate not directly.
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston