Arkady's only reply was to ask the counter-question: "You have been sitting with Anna Sergievna, have you not?"
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

‘Krajiek’s gone silly, Jake, and so have you.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

Life itself is a sea, full of rocks and whirlpools, which man avoids with the greatest care and solicitude, although he knows that even if he succeeds in getting through with all his efforts and skill, he yet by doing so comes nearer at every step to the greatest, the total, inevitable, and irremediable shipwreck, death; nay, even steers right upon it: this is the final goal of the laborious voyage, and worse for him than all the rocks from which he has escaped.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

“That’s another slander,” he yelled.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“He gave me a five-franc piece this month, which is as good as saying, ‘Hold your tongue.’
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Cultivate a superiority to reason, and see how you pare the claws of all the sensible people when they try to scratch you for your own good!
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Again: Said he young Harry Percy's spur was cold?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

If we estimate this great work either by the authenticity of the information which it contains, or its utility in promoting the advancement of arts and sciences, we should not consider it as an object of any extraordinary encomiums; but when we view it as a literary monument, which displays the whole knowledge of the ancients, relative to Natural History, collected during a period of about seven hundred years, from the time of Thales the Milesian, it has a just claim to the attention of every speculative enquirer.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The boys were sitting talking together when an infantry sergeant came up and said, “Here, youngsters, don’t go away.
— from !Tention: A Story of Boy-Life during the Peninsular War by George Manville Fenn

Ismail Wad Barnu and Bakr el Begawi had also come to Dara with their families for protection, and had constructed a small zariba for themselves about six hundred yards from the fort, which the rebels had attempted one night to attack, but had been driven off, with the assistance of some [252] soldiers.
— from Fire and Sword in the Sudan A Personal Narrative of Fighting and Serving the Dervishes 1879-1895 by Slatin, Rudolf Carl, Freiherr von

Time and space have yielded not an iota of their mystery to our most penetrant minds.
— from Skylark Three by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Must she weep and sigh her youth away, while griping Avarice trampled on her heart-strings?
— from Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio. Second Series by Fanny Fern

We were amusing ourselves on the sea-shore during low-water, watching the habits of periwinkles, hermit-crabs, star-fish, &c., when we observed a heron at some hundred yards distance, leaping about, wriggling its body, and performing other strange and unheron-like antics, as if it had suddenly gone mad.
— from Nether Lochaber The Natural History, Legends, and Folk-lore of the West Highlands by Stewart, Alexander, Rev.

"I've had dinner enough," he said, "and so have you, Miss Judy."
— from The Wishing Moon by Louise Elizabeth Dutton

el y Mosen luys de santangel, Joan de Perosanchez, Gaspar de Santa Cruz, Garcia de Moros, M r Alonso Sanchez, Martin de Santangel y otros que alli se hallaron, y que dieron poder a Joan Sanchez porque era dineroso, y a Mossen luys porque era de Espada, y a otros que no se nombran, que en ello diessen orden
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 1 by Henry Charles Lea

The pupils went inside one old, old house which 148 had been built about seven hundred years ago.
— from Near the Top of the World: Stories of Norway, Sweden & Denmark by Nelle E. Moore

Capable of being lifted to the most intimate participation in the glories of divinity, and though he be poor and weak and sinful here, yet capable of union and assimilation with the Majesty that is on high.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Mark by Alexander Maclaren