"Night and day, to each new comer I sang gaily, by your leave; Singing, singing, morn and eve."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

I didn’t want to give my own because of poor father—in case I should get mixed up in anything shady.”
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The sanctity of the churinga is so great that its action is even felt at a distance.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

During 1853 to 1855 Norwegians came in still greater numbers, writes Reverend Höverstad.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

The trees along the residence streets of the town were all newly clothed in soft green leaves, in the gardens behind the houses men were puttering about in vegetable gardens, and in the air there was a hush, a waiting kind of silence very stirring to the blood.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

As soon as I came in she graciously gave me her hand, which I kissed, calling her my cousin.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Had the Scotch cattle been always confined to the market of Scotland, in a country in which the quantity of land, which can be applied to no other purpose but the feeding of cattle, is so great in proportion to what can be applied to other purposes, it is scarce possible, perhaps, that their price could ever have risen so high as to render it profitable to cultivate land for the sake of feeding them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

The coincidence is sufficiently great to assure us a good beginning.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

He hated life itself, nothing pleased him: he hated his labour, all, as [183] he concludes, is sorrow, grief, vanity, vexation of spirit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In that case I shall go alone.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Where can I see Gloria?" asked Kennedy finally.
— from The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

We called it "St. George and the Dragon," but the former is afoot—possibly the Bedawin stole his steed.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

I am well aware that our ignorance of their condition is so great that, we may not dare to say anything of them positively; there may be a hundred things true respecting them which we neither know nor imagine.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

It only registers the fact that civilisation is still grievously incomplete and unconsolidated.
— from The War and Democracy by John Dover Wilson

But at these words the poor girl pressed her hands to her heaving breast in dumb entreaty, and her breath came in short gasps.
— from The Strange Story of Rab Ráby by Mór Jókai

As the snowfall continues, I shall go on tonight, red chalk and charcoal.
— from Voices from the Past by Paul Alexander Bartlett

Now, since it is quite out of the question that the bole could have anything to do with the result in this case, notwithstanding Fracastoro’s belief in its virtues, we can only account for the cure by supposing, that a confidence in so great a physician prevailed over this fatal disease of the imagination, which would otherwise have yielded to scarcely any other remedy except the tarantella.
— from The Black Death, and The Dancing Mania by J. F. C. (Justus Friedrich Carl) Hecker

"I greatly question if you can induce Sir George Templemore to see his own position with your eyes."
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper