I would go at once, and she should never know that I had approached the place of her abode: for though I might disclaim all idea of ever aspiring to her hand, or even of soliciting a place in her friendly regard, her peace should not be broken by my presence, nor her heart afflicted by the sight of my fidelity.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

He promises fairly, and I hope among different people, where they may each have a character to preserve, they will both be more prudent.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Dividing the distance into two days’ journey, in order that his charge might sustain the less exhaustion and fatigue from travelling so far, Nicholas, at the end of the second day from their leaving home, found himself within a very few miles of the spot where the happiest years of his life had been passed, and which, while it filled his mind with pleasant and peaceful thoughts, brought back many painful and vivid recollections of the circumstances in which he and his had wandered forth from their old home, cast upon the rough world and the mercy of strangers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

I wondered if Fate were going to settle it in that way, and I wondered too if it would be breaking my promise to tell him to shoot!
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey

Verily, he who possesseth little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Perhaps,” I ended, “you will reply by begging my pardon for not knowing that there was only one Venice in the world.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The whole party arrived in safety at the Bush before Mr. Pickwick had recovered his breath.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Forthwith a change came over the waters, and the serenity became less brilliant but more profound.
— from Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In that part of the garden grew scattered cherry trees; among them grain and vegetables, purposely of mixed varieties: wheat, maize, beans, bearded barley, millet, peas, and even bushes and flowers.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

bat , bet , melius, potius, magis; Alem.
— from An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language in which the words are explained in their different senses, authorized by the names of the writers by whom they are used, or the titles of the works in which they occur, and deduced from their originals by John Jamieson

The purayra’s a big book, Miss Peintdexter—a wonderful big book—for them as knows how to read the print o’t.
— from The Headless Horseman: A Strange Tale of Texas by Mayne Reid

The fourth Cause, which indeed affects every Body, but more particularly the Labourer, is, the Inconstancy of the Weather.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Larger in most parts measured; maxillary tooth-row 4.7-5.0 instead of 4.0-4.6; color [Pg 114] brighter on sides (reddish instead of ochraceous); supraorbital border angular instead of rounded; anterior border of zygomatic plate convex in upper half and almost straight in lower half as opposed to nearly straight throughout in boylii ; pterygoid fossa broader; bullae more pointed anteriorly and less inflated; mesostyles of upper molars larger; surface between orbital region and nasals convex in lateral view instead of flat.
— from Taxonomic Status of Some Mice of The Peromyscus boylii Group in Eastern Mexico, With Description of a New Subspecies by Ticul Alvarez

But believe me, pray believe me when I tell you, that as the next six months go by I shall dread our parting, though more than half of you seven girls will have left me before that time arrives.
— from Miss Grantley's Girls, and the Stories She Told Them by Thomas Archer

We are offering underwriters ten per cent in cash, and there is not the slightest risk, as the shares will stand at a high premium within a few days after the lists—” “It sounds most promising,” said Bruce; “but my principals are more interested in taking up concerns which have been already established, but in which, for want of sufficient capital, the vendors’ shares have, by a process of reconstruction, come into the market.
— from A Mysterious Disappearance by Louis Tracy

(+b. MtL) bond, chain, fetter , BH, Bl, Mt, Ps ; CP: band, ribbon, ornament, chaplet, crown , WW .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

At last the bandits, being more powerful, slew the merchant-prince Samudrasena and his followers, and went off with all his wealth.
— from The Kathá Sarit Ságara; or, Ocean of the Streams of Story by active 11th century Somadeva Bhatta