I need not so totally despair of an equal alliance, as to be addressing myself to Miss Smith!—No, madam, my visits to Hartfield have been for yourself only; and the encouragement I received—” “Encouragement!—I give you encouragement!—Sir, you have been entirely mistaken in supposing it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

"All right, we'll return, Mr. Land, and after the Persian Gulf, if the Nautilus wants to visit the Red Sea, the Strait of Bab el Mandeb is still there to let us in!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

If all the world were blind except myself I should not care for fine clothes or furniture."
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

His chastisement, his expiation, consists in being carried along by that ray of light which [122] left the plains of Waterloo on the 18th June 1815, and to be ever moving in space with the quickness of light itself; to have constantly in sight that critical scene, where he saw for ever crumbling to pieces the scaffolding of his vain ambition; to feel, without respite, the bitterness of despair; and to remain bound to this ray of light for the 185 millions of years for whose destruction he was responsible.
— from Lumen by Camille Flammarion

The young father-to-be should not lose a day of these swiftly passing weeks, for this phase, like all human developments, but even more intensely so than most, is passing and transient, only to be immortalized in the permanence of a perceptive memory.
— from Radiant Motherhood: A Book for Those Who are Creating the Future by Marie Carmichael Stopes

Best said a word to me this morning--he got it from young Plympton, I fancy--that Philip had been embarking money in some speculation, and----
— from The Mysteries of Heron Dyke: A Novel of Incident. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

I begrudge every minute I spend away from mother.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

The total weight carried by each man, including sixty rounds of ammunition, was 45 pounds.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Truly enough, as Mrs. Macpherson says, the journey must have been "enchanting, made in such companionship."
— from Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp

It was seen to be exceedingly minute in size, requiring high powers of the microscope to make it visible.
— from A History of Science — Volume 4 by Edward Huntington Williams