"Ah, sir," said the man with the ivory baton, "had you committed all the imaginable crimes you would be to me the most honest man in the world.
— from Candide by Voltaire

This king, after the death of his brother Eanfrid, 288 advanced with an army, small, indeed, in number, but strengthened with the faith of Christ; and the impious commander of the Britons, in spite of his vast forces, which he boasted nothing could withstand, was slain at a place called in the English tongue Denisesburna, that is, the brook of Denis.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Come aboard till I can get a word with ye.”
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But then the cause, as to its causality, must not rank under time-determinations of its state, that is, it cannot be an appearance, and must be considered a thing in itself, while its effects would be only appearances.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

The physician then took his leave and letting make a little clary, [428] despatched it to Calandrino, whilst Bruno, buying the capons and other things necessary for making good cheer, ate them in company with his comrades and Master Simone.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

For my own part, I had followed step by step the methods by which he had traced the various windings of this complex case, and, though I could not yet perceive the goal which we would reach, I understood clearly that Holmes expected this grotesque criminal to make an attempt upon the two remaining busts, one of which, I remembered, was at Chiswick.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[277] Spedding supposed that there was a front curtain, and this idea, coming down from Malone and Collier, is still found in English works of authority.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

“Ah,” said Holmes, “I think that what you have been good enough to tell us makes the matter fairly clear, and that I can deduce all that remains.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

the Child, and the Indian Cheaf are also on the recovery.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

I meant to have remonstrated that you had not discussed sufficiently the necessity of signs for the formation of abstract ideas of any complexity, and then I came on the discussion on deaf mutes.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

This done, the chips from the cutters are turned into cell 2; cell 1 is closed, and cut off from the others, and water is turned into it by opening valve, c , of cell 1 (see Fig.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 by Various

[81] It may be objected that, with one or two exceptions of quite recent date, the Colonies have contributed nothing to the upkeep of the Empire, except in the very indirect form of maintaining local military forces, that their present tendency —unquestionably a sound tendency—is to co-operate, not by way of direct money contribution to Imperial funds, but by the construction of local Navies out of their own money, and, in time of peace, under their own immediate control, and that Ireland cannot be allowed to follow their example.
— from The Framework of Home Rule by Erskine Childers

Its high temperature, which is pretty constant at 80° of Fahr., and the quantity of carbonic acid that it contains, render it peculiarly fitted to afford nourishment to vegetable life.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

Here were things I knew and understood completely and that I could not even describe to Rachel.
— from The Passionate Friends by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

But now—when some years have rolled over our heads, and we have learned to think more calmly, if not more wisely—when we have caught a glimpse of the men who fill high places, and stood near enough to discover that they were of earth's common mould—when the actual din of forensic oratory, deafening and monotonous, has rung in our ears, and we have sat and watched the solemn juggle, and the stale hypocrisy with which that legal strife called a trial is conducted—now, if any teacher of ethics should denounce the demoralizing principle of advocacy—the principle we mean of contending for any client, or any cause, that craves fee in hand—we should no longer be eager to thrust ourselves between him and the object of his indignation; we should let his wrath take its course; we should listen with patience, with neutrality, perhaps with secret satisfaction at his attack.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various

As has been pointed out, early in the history of the postoffice, mail matter was classified according to its character and different rates of postage were charged.
— from The postal power of Congress: A study in constitutional expansion by Lindsay Rogers

↑ 184 An ostensibly orthodox Professor of our own day has written that Locke’s doctrine as to religion and ethics “shows at once the sincerity of his religious convictions and the inadequate conception he had formed to himself of the grounds and nature of moral philosophy” (Fowler, Locke , 1880, p. 76).
— from A Short History of Freethought Ancient and Modern, Volume 2 of 2 Third edition, Revised and Expanded, in two volumes by J. M. (John Mackinnon) Robertson

The one-inch sheets are each accompanied by a memoir containing all the information collected by the Survey Party.
— from Tent Work in Palestine: A Record of Discovery and Adventure by C. R. (Claude Reignier) Conder

He was obliged to abandon the enterprise by the prohibition of the East India Company; and then, in company with his brother and others similarly minded, he turned to home mission work, which for a time was prosecuted by them with ardent zeal and great success.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy