“But heaven won’t be like church—all the time,” said Anne.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Then Sir Galihud gat a spear to avenge his brother, and in the same wise Sir Gareth served him, and Sir Dinadan and his brother La Cote Male Taile, and Sir Sagramore le Disirous, and Sir Dodinas le Savage; all these he bare down with one spear.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

—¡Traedle a D. Basilio la corneta en que se está enseñando 05 Joaquín!
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

The islands which lie near, and opposite, are inhabited by people who formerly lived without molesting others, but latterly carried on a piratical warfare in rafts 768 against vessels on their way from Egypt.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

But apart from this influence on the feelings, there was in Hill a distinct aversion to falsity that the blasphemous Landport cobbler had inculcated by strap and tongue from his earliest years.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

the prickley pear are of three species that with a broad leaf common to the missouri; that of a globular form also common to the upper part of the Missouri and more especially after it enters the Rocky Mountains, also a 3rd peculiar to this country.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The outer door would not open to our knock, and nothing more substantial than a torrent of bad language came from behind it.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Blind cross sweeping with its darts would only exhaust the clip without results, save by lucky chance.
— from Star Hunter by Andre Norton

"There will be less chance of our being observed there, and no chance of our being overheard."
— from The Ranger Boys and the Border Smugglers by Claude A. Labelle

He had then declared that henceforth the State would be recognised as the Orange River Colony, [Pg 185] after which the troops presented arms and a salute of twenty-one guns was fired by the Naval Brigade and Royal Artillery, followed by lusty cheers for the Queen.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

And these two, nobly mated, each to each The sweet and ripe completion, shall be named With loyal love and tenderest respect By knight and lady, poet, sage and priest, In mart and camp, in palace and in cot, By babbling gray-beard and by lisping child, Wherever Britain’s banner is unfurled.
— from The Prophecy of Merlin, and Other Poems by John Reade

It is all assertion and assumption, founded on the opinion of A., B., and C., as to "style," &c. Now, as some two dozen different persons have been proved, by like confident opinions, on like evidence, to be the writer of Junius's Letters , I may be excused when I acknowledge that the test is not with me quite conclusive.
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 127, April 3, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

In any case, he finally accepted the offer with perfect good humour, giving Weed a brief letter consenting to the use of his name as lieutenant-governor.
— from A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 by De Alva Stanwood Alexander

On the purchase-money the happy pair lived for some years in great comfort, when Mr. Legard died of a brain fever; and his disconsolate widow found herself alone in the world with a beautiful little curly-headed boy, and an annuity of one thousand a year, for which her settlement had been exchanged.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 04 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

[ 48 ] The present narrative is compiled from (1) the details of Ascham's murder, given to the English Council by Laurence Chambers on his return to England (Record Office MSS., S.P. Spain 43); (2) the letters of Fischer, the secretary, in the same packet; and (3) an unpublished manuscript deposition of the prisoners in Bib.
— from The Court of Philip IV.: Spain in Decadence by Martin A. S. (Martin Andrew Sharp) Hume