The poor cannot always reach those whom they want to love, and they can hardly ever escape from those whom they love no longer.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Of course, I could have earned enough for us to live on.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

and I could have earned enough for clothes, boots and food, no doubt.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lay on, Macduff, And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!" Exeunt fighting.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The emergency cook had every excuse for sending in watery soup and sloppy rice, and as neither the chief goat-herd nor his wife were expert divers, the cellar could not be reached.
— from The Toys of Peace, and Other Papers by Saki

Queſto gouuernatore ſe chiama humar et era forſi vinticinque anny.
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 34 of 55, 1519-1522; 1280-1605 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

Fancy him coming home every evening from the mill, and nobody but servants in the house!
— from Wenderholme: A Story of Lancashire and Yorkshire by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

he could hardly explain, except for the awed and reverent look in the face of his guide; in the presence of the former writer, whom they had just left, his guide had borne himself, he now reflected, as the son of a house might bear himself in the presence of an old and trusted servant, who was valued more for his honesty than for his courtesy.
— from Paul the Minstrel and Other Stories Reprinted from The Hill of Trouble and The Isles of Sunset by Arthur Christopher Benson

‘Nothing but being dead could have excused ’ee for not meeting and marrying that man this morning; and yet you have the brazen impudence to stand there as well as ever!
— from The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid by Thomas Hardy

The upper middle classes had every excuse for being angry.
— from The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill

I knew too how earnestly his capture was desired, and that I alone could tell where he was to be found, and of his probable lurking-places in case he ever escaped from us.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

A homicide, in such a place, and such an age, could hardly escape embellishment from the fertile genius of the churchmen, whose interest was so closely connected with the inviolability of a divine sanctuary.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott