You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

But I must owe something.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

If the Parts slide upon one another, the Body is malleable or soft.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Superb and inimitable as all is, it is mostly an objective and physiological kind of power and beauty the soul finds in Shakspere—a style supremely grand of the sort, but in my opinion stopping short of the grandest sort, at any rate for fulfilling and satisfying modern and scientific and democratic American purposes.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

I rode home slowly; whip-in-hand And soil’d bank-notes all ready, stood The Farmer who farm’d all my land, Except the little Park and Wood; And with the accustom’d compliment Of talk, and beef, and frothing beer, I, my own steward, took my rent, Three hundred pounds for half the year; Our witnesses the Cook and Groom, We sign’d the lease for seven years more, And bade Good-day; then to my room I went, and closed and lock’d the door, And cast myself down on my bed,
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

But in matters of such remote antiquity, I should deem it sufficient, if matters bearing a resemblance to truth be admitted as true.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

" "Why, Ned, why?" "Because, Professor, that beast is made of sheet iron.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

[224] Ononidis, Arrestæ Bovis, &c. Of Cammock, or Rest-harrow, so called because it makes oxen stand still when they are ploughing.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

He prayed fervently, shedding tears and bowing down to the earth, and when he had finished, heaved a deep sigh and said: “Even though one does not believe it makes one somehow easier when one prays a little.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

On the arch over the western lunette.—The busts (in medallions) of SS.
— from Byzantine Churches in Constantinople: Their History and Architecture by Alexander Van Millingen

She would not have been the first to mention her daughter's name; but if Mrs. Orme should speak of it, then the subject would be free for her, and she could let it be known that the heir of The Cleeve should at any rate have her sanction and good will.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

The “rush candle,” which, in times past, was found in nearly every house, and served as a night-light for the rich and candle for the poor, is mentioned in “Taming of the Shrew” (iv. 5): “be it moon, or sun, or what you please: An if you please to call it a rush candle, Henceforth, I vow, it shall be so for me.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

“I do all business in my office, sir.”
— from Where Your Treasure Is: Being the Personal Narrative of Ross Sidney, Diver by Holman Day

Conditions both in my own surroundings and in those of others around me broke my heart, and made me long with a nameless sorrow for the awakening of my country.
— from Letters of a Javanese Princess by Raden Adjeng Kartini

But I must only stay a little while, because it is so late."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The olde writers perswaded by bare conjecture, went about to determine of those places, by comparing them to their owne complexions, because they felt them to bee hardly tolerable to themselues, and so took thereby an argument of the whole habitable earth; as if a man borne in Marochus, or some other part of Barbarie, should at the latter end of Sommer vpon the suddeine, either naked, or with his thinne vesture, bee brought into England, hee would judge this Region presently not to bee habitable, because hee being brought vp in so warme a Countrey, is not able here to liue, for so suddeine an alteration of the colde aire: but if the same man had come at the beginning of Sommer, and so afterward by little and little by certaine degrees, had felt and acquainted himselfe with the frost of Autumne, it would haue seemed by degrees to harden him, and so to make it farre more tollerable, and by vse after one yeere or two, the aire would seeme to him more temperate.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Justice Keelynge, the judge who condemned Bunyan, is mentioned on several occasions by Pepys, very considerably to his disadvantage.
— from Among Famous Books by John Kelman

But in men of science, this imitation can hardly be excused.
— from A Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings On Moral, Historical, Political, and Literary Subjects by Noah Webster