He replied in a tone of conviction: “Oh, no; oh, no; I assure you that you are mistaken.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The Earl of Clarendon gives the equivocal explanation that "if we did not take great pains to corrupt our nature, our nature would [Pg 66] never corrupt us."
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“Then,” said James, “you don't hold with that saying, 'Everybody look after himself, and take care of number one'?” “No, indeed,” said John, “where should I and Nelly have been if master and mistress and old Norman had only taken care of number one?
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

But when that word was uttered, it was a case of now or never; and Duncan, with something of a white face to be sure, thrust himself between.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

For the declaration of this mental faculty may be that what has and could not but take place in the course of nature, ought not to have taken place.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Note 97 ( return ) [ The city of Negra, or Nag'ran, in Yemen, is surrounded with palm-trees, and stands in the high road between Saana, the capital, and Mecca; from the former ten, from the latter twenty days' journey of a caravan of camels, (Abulfeda, Descript.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"It was a case of now or never."
— from The Pioneers by Katharine Susannah Prichard

The responsibility rests upon Christians of no one name, and it would seem that if the people of God every where could but have a full realization of the heart-rending inadequacy of all means yet employed for the conversion of the world, or of the utter hopelessness of ever meeting the vast want under such a waste of power, the work of economical adjustment would at once and earnestly commence, and also a new consecration—that the evangelization of the world may be carried forward upon a scale commensurate with the providential openings for missionary effort.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

His materialistic and supercilious outlook results, I think, from contempt or nescience of nature; you will notice the trait still more at Venice, whose inhabitants seldom forsake their congested mud-flat.
— from Alone by Norman Douglas

In the beginning of his reign he collected his army, and made his first expedition into the country of Nummi, or Nûmi, probably Elam or Susiana, subsequently, as we shall find, called Numaki or Nuvaki.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

As most Londoners are aware, it has long been the custom of the Vintners’ Company, in their annual “swan-upping” expeditions on the Thames, to mark [188] their swans with a couple of nicks or notches in the bill, so as to distinguish them from the royal swans, whose nicks are five in number, viz., two lengthways and three across on the bill.
— from Names: and Their Meaning; A Book for the Curious by Leopold Wagner

C o ntági o , as C o ntagi ó ne. C o ntagi o náre, to infect with contagion.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

How many others have been improved or degraded by the great vicissitude of the earth and waters, by the culture or neglect of nature, by their long continuance in favourable or repugnant climates, that they are no longer the same!
— from Buffon's Natural History. Volume 07 (of 10) Containing a Theory of the Earth, a General History of Man, of the Brute Creation, and of Vegetables, Minerals, &c. &c by Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de

C o nfẻssi o nárij, Confessors, shriuing-fathers.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

If for every word spoken in haste and in drink, a head were cut off, not one noble in this Commonwealth would walk around with his head on his shoulders.
— from The Deluge: An Historical Novel of Poland, Sweden, and Russia. Vol. 1 (of 2) by Henryk Sienkiewicz