I happen to be originally brought into contact with you, Lizzie, on those two occasions that you know of.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“I am quite sure of it, and as you have promised to be our brother, I can tell you why I have that conviction.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The mask of Basil is to be found there, but one beholds its cardboard and its strings and the inside as well as the outside, and it is accentuated by honest mud.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

I do hope you won’t be offended because I can’t eat.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Among such verbs are 1 ad´ferô, adfer´re, at´tulî, adlâ´tus , bring to; report ad´sum, ades´se, ad´fuî, adfutû´rus , assist; be present dê´ferô, dêfer´re, dê´tulî, dêlâtus , report; grant, confer dê´sum, dees´se, dê´fuî, —— , be wanting, be lacking în´ferô, înfer´re, in´tulî, inlâ´tus , bring against, bring upon inter´sum, interes´se, inter´fuî, interfutû´rus , take part in occur´rô, occur´rere, occur´rî, occur´sus , run against, meet praefi´ciô, praefi´cere, praefê´cî, praefec´tus , appoint over, place in command of prae´sum, praees´se, prae´fuî, —— , be over, be in command 1.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

“But, O Bullibrain,” I cried out, “have ye not almost exhausted these supplies?
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

As our very acts become more intellectual, our tendencies more rational, and our judgment, for example, as to what seems reasonable, is very different from what it was a hundred years ago: so the forms of our lives grow ever more intellectual and, to the old fashioned eye, perhaps, uglier, but only because it cannot see that the richness of inner, rational beauty always spreads and deepens, and that the inner, rational aspect of all things should now be of more consequence
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

—So put on, my brave boy! and make the best of thy way to Boulogne. 259 C H A P. XC ——B OULOGNE !——hah!——so we are all got together——debtors and sinners before heaven; a jolly set of us—but I can’t stay and quaff it off with you—I’m pursued myself like a hundred devils, and shall be overtaken, before I can well change horses:——for heaven’s sake, make haste——’Tis for high-treason, quoth a very little man, whispering as low as he could to a very tall man, that stood next him——Or else for murder; quoth the tall man——Well thrown, Size-ace !
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

That his uncle should arrive to treat with me of these things was a solution that, strictly speaking, I ought now to have desired to bring on; but I could so little face the ugliness and the pain of it that I simply procrastinated and lived from hand to mouth.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

In the former case, the body had not been opened before I commenced my examination.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

From the most ancient times down to the present, this difference between the Norwegian form bœr , and the Danish býr or by , seems on the whole to have clearly prevailed; and thus that, as early as the eleventh century, the English towns and villages are written in William the Conqueror’s “Domesday-book,” with the Danish ending by or bi , and not with the Norwegian form bœr or bö , is certainly no slight corroboration of their assumed Danish origin.
— from An Account of the Danes and Norwegians in England, Scotland, and Ireland by Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae

I knew that I had to be “a child of God,” and after a time professed myself to be one, but I cannot call to mind that I was anything else than I always had been, save that I was perhaps a little more hypocritical; not in the sense that I professed to others what I knew I did not believe, but in the sense that I professed it to myself.
— from The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford, Edited by his friend Reuben Shapcott by William Hale White

But all over Jewry the beautiful old belief is contained in the wording of the fourth of the "seven benedictions" sung at the celebration of a wedding, "Blessed art thou, O Lord our God, King of the Universe, who hast made man in thine image, after thy likeness, and hast prepared unto him out of his very self a perpetual fabric."
— from The Book of Delight and Other Papers by Israel Abrahams

But otherwise Bhutan is completely independent.
— from Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

She nodded at them, with shining eyes, and muttered thickly, an almost childlike boast: "Oh, but I could do better than that once.
— from Walking Shadows: Sea Tales and Others by Alfred Noyes

Commonly called The Sampson Medal after the Commander-in-Chief--William Sampson, U.S.N. A similar medal for Admiral Dewey's victory in Manila Bay was awarded, suspended from a ribbon with broader band of blue in center and yellow on either side.
— from The Marines Have Landed by Giles Bishop

But this symptom, though a strong one, must be supported by others before it can be regarded as establishing anything.
— from The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by George H. (George Henry) Napheys

And here we fixed the arrangement for the birthday and wedding day to be one; but it came on a Sunday, and hence the necessity of a talk with Mr. Davis, which resulted in the arranging for a short afternoon sermon, and after it the ceremony.
— from The Harvest of Years by Martha Lewis Beckwith Ewell