When Zosia was left alone, a child and poor, Jacek gave her to Telimena to be brought up, hearing that she was a good sort of woman and knew the world; but I notice that she is stirring things up for us here; she is intriguing and seems to be flirting with Thaddeus.
— 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

Yes, indeed!” “The benefit is not the same in all cases,” said Kuzmitchov, lighting a cheap cigar; “some will study twenty years and get no sense from it.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

They are temperate because they are intemperate—which might seem to be a contradiction, but is nevertheless the sort of thing which happens with this foolish temperance.
— from Phaedo by Plato

I'd seen her stickin' 'em on the end of her nose, like, but I never thought she'd be so soft as to shove it right up.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

If I could have hoped it would have brought in nearly the sum wanted, I'd have sold all long ago.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

It was a thing to believe in, not to see—a matter of faith, not of experience.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

But is not the slave trade entirely a war with the heart of man?
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Not the blacksmith who opened the lock; nor the glazier who mended the pane; nor the jobber who let the carriage; nor the groom who drove it; nor the butcher who provided the leg of mutton; nor the coals which roasted it; nor the cook who basted it; nor the servants who ate it: and this I am given to understand is not unfrequently the way in which people live elegantly on nothing a year.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Tell me, ye brethren, is not the strangest of all things best proved?
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

During the month of February 1807, the British government, justly irritated at the increasing influence that the French ambassador, Count Sebastiani, was obtaining at the Ottoman court, despatched Admiral Sir John Duckworth, in command of a squadron, with orders to bombard, if necessary, the Seraglio itself.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 by Various

It should have a chimney, if possible; but if not, there should be suitable holes in the ceiling, for the purposes of ventilation.
— from The Young Mother: Management of Children in Regard to Health by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

Rangituki was pure heathen, one of the unredeemed of the Rutiaroans, but I noticed that some of the Catholics and Latter Day Saints, even the Reformed Saints of the later Latter Day persuasion, all in good standing in their churches, assisted her in making the collection.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

Before I noticed the singular mission of M. Haugwitz to the Emperor Napoleon, and the result of that mission, which circumstances rendered diametrically the reverse of its object, I will relate what came to my knowledge respecting some other negotiations on the part of Austria, the evident intent of which was to retard Napoleon's progress, and thereby to dupe him.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

Muriel, the youngest of these sisters, was deformed in shape, sallow in hue, in speech, as Mistress Ward had said, slow; but withal in her eyes, which were deep-set, there was lacking neither the fire which betokens intelligence, nor the sweetness which commands affection, and somewhat in her plain face which, though it may not be called beauty, had some of its qualities.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

It will be interesting now to survey this region as [61] known at the time of the Raynolds Expedition.
— from The Yellowstone National Park: Historical and Descriptive by Hiram Martin Chittenden

"My business is not that, sir. Ahem!
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 by George Meredith

It may be said that to eat a loaf of bread is not the same thing as seeing, touching, or tasting it; that in the one case it enters into our body, but not therefore into our consciousness.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

Her brain is not too strong, and it has been very much shaken by the terrors and misery she has undergone since she came to Ladysmith.
— from A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War by L. T. Meade