Israel throughout the modern centuries is still looking at the Gentile world and estimating what its man-power can be made to yield.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

[To Mrs Linde.] I don't know whether you find also in your part of the world that there are certain people who go zealously snuffing about to smell out moral corruption, and, as soon as they have found some, put the person concerned into some lucrative position where they can keep their eye on him.
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

I must tell you I have perpetrated a play, my first-born — pardon pour l’expression! —and before sending it to the Censor I should like above all things to have your opinion on it.”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Very satisfactorily, replied Yorick; no mortal, Sir, has any concern with it——for Mrs. Shandy the mother is nothing at all a-kin to him——and as the mother’s is the surest side——Mr. Shandy, in course is still less than nothing——In short, he is not as much a-kin to him, Sir, as I am.—— ——That may well be, said my father, shaking his head.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees; but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

What we have today reconquered, with unspeakable self-discipline, for ourselves—for certain bad instincts, certain Christian instincts, still lurk in our bodies—that is to say, the keen eye for reality, the cautious hand, patience and seriousness in the smallest things, the whole integrity of knowledge—all these things were already there, and had been there for two thousand years!
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

From him that sitteth in the glorious throne, to him that sitteth beneath in the earth and ashes; from him that is clothed in blue silk and weareth a crown, to him that is clothed in simple linen.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

By the Rays of Light I understand its least Parts, and those as well Successive in the same Lines, as Contemporary in several Lines.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

Broad in treatment, comprehensive in subject, liberal in detail and slate-pencil—it represented Uncle Ben lying on the floor with a book in his hand, tyrannized over by Rupert Filgee and regarded in a striking profile of two features by Cressy McKinstry.
— from Cressy by Bret Harte

“In 1867, my only sister, a young lady of eighteen years, died suddenly of cholera, in St. Louis, Mo.
— from True Ghost Stories by Hereward Carrington

The proprietor of the house was therefore much pleased to see another English boat come in, so little and so lonely, but still so comfortable and so dry.
— from A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy Canoe on Rivers and Lakes of Europe by John MacGregor

“'And, o' course,' I ses, looking at 'im, 'there's some people 'asn't got either one or the other.'
— from Deep Waters, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

The income of the Jockey Club is so large it is really embarrassing.
— from The Amazing Argentine: A New Land of Enterprise by John Foster Fraser

If it is not confidential, I should like to know what she allows herself.’
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

We search for glimpses of his private life and character in such letters, for they are not easily apparent.
— from James Madison by Sydney Howard Gay