It seemed curious that I should never have heard of this brother before; but I concluded that he had died young, or else surely his name would have been alluded to by his sisters.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I know quite well, Torvald, that most people would think you right, and that views of that kind are to be found in books; but I can no longer content myself with what most people say, or with what is found in books.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

To bear pain, then, sedately and calmly, it is of great use to consider with all our soul, as the saying is, how noble it is to do so, for we are naturally desirous (as I said before, but it cannot be too often repeated) and very much inclined to what is honorable, of which, if we discover but the least glimpse, there is nothing which we are not prepared to undergo and suffer to attain it.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

But before I conclude my Letter, I must communicate to you another Remark, which I have made upon the Subject with which I am now entertaining you, namely, that I can give a shrewd Guess at the Humour of the Inhabitant by the Sign that hangs before his Door.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Time would not allow him to be much with us, and we parted, praying together that the Lord would open his eyes to behold His glory, as it shines in the face of Jesus, and that we may both be united in His love, and become brothers in Christ."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

After a short pause in the conversation, Mr. Weston made some remark addressed particularly to me, as referring to something we had been talking of before; but before I could answer, Miss Murray replied to the observation and enlarged upon it: he rejoined; and, from thence to the close of the interview, she engrossed him entirely to herself.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

But before I continue my narrative I must add a few words about Xicotencatl's daughter, Doña Louisa, who was given to Alvarado.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Well, I seemed to be in the open river again by and by, but I couldn’t hear no sign of a whoop nowheres.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

But before I could touch his blade with mine, he had thrown it from him and fallen to the ground.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

And having the conscience of a ghost and the callous [Pg 38] perfection of an automaton, it is causing disasters of which the volcanic dissipations of the youthful moon would be ashamed to be brought into comparison.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

He begged me, in feeble tones, to get him some brandy; but I could not find anybody to give it to him, and went down with the water.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

What [418] tragedies I might relate even of the higher educational life of universities!—of fine brains giving way under pressure of work beyond the capacity of the average European student,—of triumphs won in the teeth of death,—of strange farewells from pupils in the time of the dreaded examinations, as when one said to me: "Sir, I am very much afraid that my paper is bad, because I came out of the hospital to make it—there is something the matter with my heart."
— from Japan: An Attempt at Interpretation by Lafcadio Hearn

The law, whether as to copyright or other matters, should afford a basis of certainty for business, but it cannot wisely interfere with freedom of contract between the parties to a business transaction.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

If every just man that now pines with want Had but a moderate and beseeming share Of that which lewdly-pampered Luxury 770 Now heaps upon some few with vast excess, Nature’s full blessings would be well dispensed In unsuperfluous even proportions, And she no whit encumbered with her store; And then the Giver would be better thanked, His praise due paid: for swinish gluttony Ne’er looks to Heaven amidst his gorgeous feast, But with besotted base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder.
— from Milton's Comus by John Milton

The experiment was started by showing 20 small cards on a black background in comparison with another group of cards the number of which varied between 17 and 23.
— from Psychology and Industrial Efficiency by Hugo Münsterberg

[*] I'm glad he's a black boy; I can order him round more, you know, than if he was white, and he won't get his back up half as often either.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

As I looked at it, the recollection came back to me; but before I could say a word Miss Trelawny had caught hold of my hand and lifted it up.
— from The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker

With a thick hair-pencil I sweep away the Caterpillars; with a big brush I carefully rub down the vase and get rid of every thread which the Caterpillars have laid on the march.
— from Insect Adventures by Louise Hasbrouck Zimm

Grand juries will then have these charges against said people before them, and must act upon the same documentary evidence which the committee would necessarily be compelled to examine, by which circumstance two co-ordinate branches of this government may be brought into collision—a contingency that should be studiously avoided and cautiously guarded against.
— from History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Volume 3 by Smith, Joseph, Jr.