Bouret, O. Un nouveau cas de caféisme chronique.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

And, besides, Lizanka will keep the purse for both of us: not a farthing will be wasted.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Perhaps the weak, flaccid wretch had some stimulant in her pale life to keep her up,—some love or hope, it might be, or urgent need.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

If it is, it must be of use not only during the whole trial—not only in the testing of collected evidence, but also in the testing of every individual portion thereof, analyzed into its component elements.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

Although the knowledge that their friends love them and sorrow for them is a great solace, the nearest afflicted must be protected from any one or anything which is likely to overstrain nerves already at the threatening point, and none have the right to feel hurt if they are told they can neither be of use nor be received.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

Christianity merely renews and reinstates these universal principles after a first disappointment and a first assault of despair, by opening up new vistas of accomplishment, new qualities and measures of success.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

I’ve got my living out of the horthe-riding all my life, I know; but I conthider that I lay down the philothophy of the thubject when I thay to you, Thquire, make the betht of uth: not the wurtht!’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

I thanked him for telling me what I should not have dared to ask; and if— "the first bringer of unwelcome news Hath but a losing office; and his tongue Sounds ever after like a sullen bell—" certainly I shall ever remember this man and his words with pleasure.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

“Will you give the parsel to the Station Master, because of us not knowing what train you come down by?
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But the idea of backing out, unseen, never even occurred to Dan.
— from The Voice of the Pack by Edison Marshall

He had been on the verge of acute alcoholism; another day or two of continued debauchery would have left him a bundle of uncontrollable nerves, and remedying the condition was no one day task.
— from Bruce of the Circle A by Harold Titus

"Better for both of us not to meet.
— from The Hand but Not the Heart; Or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

The eight strangers, who had not before observed us, now halted in astonishment, and presently they shouted in good Arabic— "Are you the Pacha's soldiers?
— from Ismailia by Baker, Samuel White, Sir

We continued by ourselves until noon, diverting the time, he encouraging me to follow the sponging course of life, and I listening carefully to his advice.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

To us it seems that our war bears hard upon no government but our own, upon no people but ourselves, upon no party but American parties.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

So far from looking for these things, he should rather be prepared for that obloquy which always awaits those, who, by opening up new veins of thought, disturb the prejudices of their contemporaries.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 3 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

One day, after a whole batch of ungrammatical novels had reached him from the library, he posted his manuscript to his favourite publisher.
— from The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton

Halifax has also the credit of bestowing office upon Newton and patronising Congreve.
— from English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen