I mean that you cannot fail to remember, if you reflect for a single moment, that what you are pleased to compliment me upon feeling in the case of Mr Boffin, you have yourself confided to me as your own feeling in the case of Mrs Boffin.' ('I shall be beaten by this Lawyer,' Mrs Lammle gaily whispered to Mrs Boffin.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Profligacy consists not in spending years of time or chests of money, but in spending them off the line of your career.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Another is composed of:— Mezereon bark in small pieces 1 oz.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

And I had much rather the speculative and quick-sighted should complain of my being in some parts tedious, than that any one, not accustomed to abstract speculations, or prepossessed with different notions, should mistake or not comprehend my meaning.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

If she is his wife, he has only to convince them by shewing a certificate of marriage, but if she is not, of course he must go to prison with her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The first time they put the full harness with all its chains on my back I stood on my forelegs and kicked every bit of it off.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

All the villa owners at Cannes (for there are very few villas rented here; if one wants a house in Cannes one must build it) send to Regent Street for whatever they want, consequently no shops at Cannes but those making a specialty of kitchen necessaries or provisions have any raison d’être and they are [19] not missed.
— from As the Crow Flies: From Corsica to Charing Cross by Walter Phelps Dodge

Muscles can move the table, muscles can apparently act without the consciousness of their owner, therefore the movement is caused, or may be irrefutably said to be caused, by unconscious muscular action.
— from Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

" A slight tremor came over me; but I said with an attempt at indifference: "You mean that I shall be dominated also by some great force or influence?" "I think so," replied Heliobas musingly.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

The highways of Meccah abound in pathetic Indian beggars, who affect lank bodies, shrinking frames, whining voices, and all the circumstance of misery, because it supports them in idleness.
— from Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Macaroni and Cheese No. 1 Macaroni and Cheese No. 1 1 cupful of macaroni, broken into small pieces.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom

"Now then," shouted the unoccupied colleague of Mr. Brown, "it surely does not require all that time and talk for you two to pace out the ground.
— from Fern Vale; or, the Queensland Squatter. Volume 3 by Colin Munro