There must be a remedy, you think, for this disease, if one could find it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

He had, in fact, descended so far and so low that he found himself, when a boy, a sort of street Arab in that city; but he had ambition and native shrewdness, and he speedily took to boot-polishing, and newspaper hawking, became the office and errand boy of a law firm, picked up knowledge enough to get some employment in police courts, was admitted to the bar, became a rising young politician, went to the legislature, and was finally elected to the bench which he now honored.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

You mean to say, we shall rejoin, that those things which rest at the centre move in one place, just as the circumference goes round of globes which are said to be at rest? 'Yes.'
— from Laws by Plato

"The lad will be all right yet."
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At one point, as we ascended a steep hill, athwart whose base a railroad, yet constructing, took its course, we came upon an Irish colony.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

A comparison of dates with the account given in Adams, chapters 25 and 26, of what had passed at Kiôto during the summer, shows that the Chôshiû clansmen were marching from Ozaka to Kiôto at the very time that Itô and Shiji landed from the "Barrosa" and reached Yamaguchi to convey the messages of the foreign representatives to the princes.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

“YOU know your business all right, you German pantaloon!
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

In a few days’ time I will look into your affairs, and it will be all right, you shall see.”
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

She adored Linda, had great respect for Miss Ri, but "a rale young gem'man" awakened all the love of service within her, and if he had done the justice she expected to the meal she served, he would probably have died of indigestion that very night, and the close of this chapter would mark the end of this tale.
— from Talbot's Angles by Amy Ella Blanchard

There must be, in short, a universe to which the individual bears a real yet independent relation.
— from Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition by John Dewey

American Hellebore (Veratrum Viride) Water-Eryngo (Eryngium Yuccifolium) Yellow Jasmine (Gelsensium Sempervirens) Sweet Flag (Acorus Calamus) Blue Flag (Iris Versicolor) Crane's-bill (Geranium Maculatum), Flowering Plant, Showing also Seed Pods and Rootstock Dandelion (Taraxacum Officinale) Soapwort (Saponaria Officinalis) Burdock (Arctium Lappa), Flowering branch and Root Yellow Dock (Rumex Crispus), First Year's Growth Broad-Leaved Dock (Rumex Obtusifolius), Leaf, Fruiting Spike and Root American Colombo (Frasera Carolinensis), Leaves, Flowers, and Seed Pods Couch-Grass (Agropyron Repens) Echinacea (Brauneria Augustifolia) Aletris (Aletris Farinosa) Wild Indigo (Baptisia Tinctoria), Branch Showing Flowers and Seed Pods Pleurisy Root (Asclepias Tuberosa) Bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), Flowering Plant with Rootstock Pinkroot (Spigelia Marilandica) Indian Physic (Porteranthus Trifoliatus) Wild Sarsaparilla (Aralia Nudicaulis) American Angelica (Angelica Atropurpurea) Comfrey (Symphytum Officinale) Elecampane (Inula Helenium) Queen-of-the-Meadow (Eupatorium Purpureum) Hydrangea (Hydrangea Arborescens) Oregon Grape (Berberis Aquifolium) INTRODUCTION
— from Ginseng and Other Medicinal Plants A Book of Valuable Information for Growers as Well as Collectors of Medicinal Roots, Barks, Leaves, Etc. by A. R. (Arthur Robert) Harding

I will run back to your rooms for the bag and rejoin you at 280 Rectory Grove."
— from The Devil Doctor by Sax Rohmer

His head fell upon his breast; after a short pause, he said— “Go, brother, and rejoice your wife; Rask will guide you to her;” and he whistled an African air, which Rask appeared to recognize, for he wagged his tail, and seemed ready to set out.
— from Under Sentence of Death; Or, a Criminal's Last Hours by Victor Hugo

“Nay, then, I talk of it because you are not a timid old woman, but a reckless young man who seems bent on committing suicide.
— from Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Nothing in the way of a shelter could have been more barren and repellent, yet it was a mission maintained by a church.
— from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts

Torẻll o , a yongue Bull, a Runt, Yearling or Steere.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Listen to me, dear little father, unruffle that frowning brow and reckon, you can do so without trouble, not with pebbles, but on your fingers, what is the sum-total of the tribute paid by the allied towns; besides this we have the direct imposts, a mass of percentage dues, the fees of the courts of justice, the produce from the mines, the markets, the harbours, the public lands and the confiscations.
— from The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2 by Aristophanes