Indigo in the violet blue Light is most resplendent, and its splendor is gradually diminish'd, as it is removed thence by degrees through the green and yellow Light to the red.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

"But Lord, I must be getting home again—there's a lot to do.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

For the last six weeks they had been living in Moscow, and were installed with their governess in the lower storey of the lodge.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Marry them before Lent; I may catch pneumonia any winter now, and I want to give the wedding-breakfast.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Criticism: Essays, by Forman, Saintsbury (see above); by Lowell, in My Study Windows; see also Stedman's Victorian Poets.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The Bridesmaids' Luncheon In many sections of America, especially in the country and in small towns, brides make an especial feature of asking their bridesmaids to a farewell luncheon.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

A Lepard Cant Alter hur spots Nor beaver wont groue on A houk back I be Leave if my father the presente koue the holl trouth of A b treatment to my Dafter from her mouth the grat man woul shead tears with greafe and all good peopel Like wise shocking is the A fare I am TIMOTHY
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night!)
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

It was published in 1764, just after France had ceded to England by the Treaty of Paris all of her possessions in America east of the Mississippi River; and not the least interesting passages of Harte's book are those proposing an agricultural development of the newly acquired territory between Lake Illinois (Michigan) and the Mississippi, which he suggests may be readily brought under cultivation with the aid of the buffaloes of the country.
— from Roman Farm Management: The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Marcus Porcius Cato

Any kind of locomotion by land implies muscles of complicated arrangement, and, as a rule, there must be some sort of skeleton to support the weight of the body.
— from The Structure and Life-history of the Cockroach (Periplaneta orientalis) An Introduction to the Study of Insects by L. C. (Louis Compton) Miall

And in respect his papers had been left in my care (to answer funeral and death-bed expenses), I conceived myself entitled to dispose of one parcel thereof, entitled, “Tales of my Landlord,” to one cunning in the trade (as it is called) of bookselling.
— from The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott

“Ye’re a very sensible man, Mackellar, and have been long in my employ.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 12 by Robert Louis Stevenson

His father paled at the thought of it: “An' lost it, Archie B., lost it, my son.
— from The Bishop of Cottontown: A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills by John Trotwood Moore

If you catch me smoking another of the things, you may kick me till there isn't a breath left in my body!
— from Frank Merriwell's Chums by Burt L. Standish

After first torturing me with starvation he had caused this fierce beast to be lowered into my prison to finish the work that the jeddak's hellish imagination had conceived.
— from Warlord of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

One morning I was told the Beethovens were going away, and before long I met their two heavy boxes being carried down the stairs.
— from Essays on Life, Art and Science by Samuel Butler

I should indeed be lacking if my heart did not go out to them in responsive friendliness and goodwill.
— from Taken Alive by Edward Payson Roe