"If master will permit my saying so," Conseil replied, "I never expected to win that prize, and the Union government could have promised $100,000.00 and been none the poorer."
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Common right is nothing else than the protection of all beaming on the right of each.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Metal, as Cean remarks, is not employed throughout.
— from The Arts and Crafts of Older Spain, Volume 1 (of 3) by Leonard Williams

On assuming the important command to which he had been designated, General McClellan on the same day issued his General Orders No. 19, in which he gracefully and feelingly alludes to the retiring commander: "The army will unite with me in the feeling of regret that the weight of many years and the effect of increasing infirmities, contracted and intensified {316} in his country's service, should just now remove from our head the great soldier of our nation—the hero who in his youth raised high the reputation of his country on the fields of Canada, which he hallowed with his blood; who in more mature years proved to the world that American skill and valor could repeat, if not eclipse, the exploits of Cortez in the land of the Montezumas; whose life has been devoted to the service of his country; whose whole efforts have been directed to uphold our honor at the smallest sacrifice of life; a warrior who scorned the selfish glories of the battlefield when his great abilities as a statesman could be employed more profitably to his country; a citizen who in his declining years has given to the world the most shining instances of loyalty in disregarding all ties of birth and clinging to the cause of truth and honor—such has been the career, such the character, of Winfield Scott , whom it has long been the delight of the nation to honor, both as a man and a soldier.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

But the whole suggested something true about my own heart and that of my fellows, if not about the church: Revelation is not enough, the open trap-door is not enough, if the door of the heart is not open likewise.
— from The Seaboard Parish Volume 1 by George MacDonald

He undertakes to review a whole batch of cheap publications in a lump; but what he calls reviewing is nothing else than abusing the works with an insolence so cool, and a rashness so indiscriminate that he must be as consummate a coxcomb as he is an unprincipled ruffian.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

The coefficient of correlation ( r ) is not easy to compute in this case, because one of the attributes, the colour, is not strictly graduated ( i.e. it is not expressed in numbers defining the colour).
— from Lectures on Stellar Statistics by C. V. L. (Carl Vilhelm Ludwig) Charlier

Week is a detestable snivelling word: nothing can redeem it, not even the sermon on the Mount.
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

615 Also, a school maintained as a charity under direction of trustees elected by the town where they must be of a certain religion, is not entitled to public moneys.
— from The Clergyman's Hand-book of Law: The Law of Church and Grave by Charles Martin Scanlan

In the Old Testament we meet with a Being called “The Angel of the Lord,” who is at once closely related, if not equivalent, to Jehovah, and at the same time manifested to men.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods

He who has once been through the creative raptures is not easily tempted to try again.
— from All Things are Possible by Lev Shestov