So that if you wish to give these transactions the seal of still greater security, you have nothing to do but to summon them also; and do you, Polycrates, go and say from me, that I bid them leave their arms outside, and you can leave your own sword outside before you enter with them on your return.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

"I have declared, and have saved, and I alone have done wonders before your eyes: ye are my witnesses, said the Lord, that I am God.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

I am not going to dispute the fact that the prisoner altered this cheque, but I am going to put before you evidence as to the condition of his mind, and to submit that you would not be justified in finding that he was responsible for his actions at the time.
— from Justice by John Galsworthy

“How is Monsieur Bernajoux, your esquire’s relative?” “Why, monsieur, very ill indeed!
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

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— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

Every where, you see things that make you wonder how old these old houses were before the night of destruction came—things, too, which bring back those long dead inhabitants and place the living before your eyes.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

While my mind was thus engaged, I thought of the beautiful young Estella, proud and refined, coming towards me, and I thought with absolute abhorrence of the contrast between the jail and her.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Would let de dog bite you en taste your blood, so dey could find de one dey was lookin for better de next time.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Finally: “I don't know how you found out,” he said, “but you evidently know the truth.
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

y r Graces resolution not to trouble y e King for any money businesse euen in your owne behalfe much lesse in an others, and secondly that as for Creations you had absolutely promised his Ma tie you would not importune him againe, to the furst I answeare that this is to save the Kings Coffirs, since certainely if eyther honor or conscience should take place his Ma tie ought to saue me harmelesse from the six thousand pound Confest and proued to be y e Crownes Debt, soe happyly now vpon his Head by your Graces noe lesse prudent and valerous then dutyfull endeauours blest by Devine Prouidence neuer intending the ruine of his best deseruing subiects, and y e only promoting of his ribells, which the child unborne may rue if not timely preuented, and as a wise Privye-Counsillor y r Graces part is to minde his Ma tie soe of, as not totally to disharten I will not say disgust his good subiects well desarueing yet that as far as loyalty and Religion will giue them leaue, and I am sory his Ma tie should bedd a diew to workes of superergation and loue in his subiects and
— from The Century of Inventions of the Marquis of Worcester from the Original MS., with Historical and Explanatory Notes and a Biographical Memoir by Worcester, Edward Somerset, Marquis of

exclaimed Loman, in a passion; “if I have any more of your impudence I’ll box your ears!”
— from The Fifth Form at Saint Dominic's: A School Story by Talbot Baines Reed

Here, each spring, she settles in populous colonies, whose masonry, handed down from one generation to the next and enlarged year by year, ends by covering considerable surfaces.
— from The Mason-Bees by Jean-Henri Fabre

Be ye entirely spiritual, purely brilliant, cut your dependence from any other mention, thought or purpose, and confine your mentions, thoughts and occupations to spreading the fragrances of God, and devote your attention to this great work.
— from Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá

I can only keep the peace by yielding every thing."
— from France and England in North America, Part V: Count Frontenac, New France, Louis XIV by Francis Parkman

For I know that what has real roots cannot fail to bear real flowers & fruits that will in the end be sweet & joyful to you; and that if I am indeed capable of being your eternal comrade, climbing whereon you climb, daring all that you dare, learning all that you learn, suffering all that you suffer (pressing closest then) loving, enjoying all that you love & enjoy—you will want me.
— from The Letters of Anne Gilchrist and Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman

He could see that she wasn’t born yesterday either, had nice friends of her own, and knew how to treat people of rank.
— from The World's Illusion, Volume 2 (of 2): Ruth by Jakob Wassermann