They asked me to go with them, but I could not go, because you see I could not leave Joan; though why I could not leave her, I really cannot understand, because Egerton has got some moors this year, and he leaves Lady Augusta with her father.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

christians— Ye , whose office it is to watch over the morals of a nation, of whatsoever sect or denomination ye are of, as well as ye, who are more immediately the guardians of the public liberty, if ye wish to preserve your native country uncontaminated by European corruption, ye must in secret wish a separation—But leaving the moral part to private reflection, I shall chiefly confine my farther remarks to the following heads.
— from Common Sense by Thomas Paine

Mas cuando una buena espada, But when challenged by a good blade, por un buen brazo esgrimida, given a strong arm weighed, con la muerte les convida, inviting them to die, todo su valor es nada.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

We have hitherto spoken of the quality of conduct discerned by our moral faculty as ‘rightness,’ which is the term commonly used by English moralists.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

The growing spirit of kindliness and reconciliation between the North and South after the frightful difference of a generation ago ought to be a source of deep congratulation to all, and especially to those whose mistreatment caused the war; but if that reconciliation is to be marked by the industrial slavery and civic death of those same black men, with permanent legislation into a position of inferiority, then those black men, if they are really men, are called upon by every consideration of patriotism and loyalty to oppose such a course by all civilized methods, even though such opposition involves disagreement with Mr. Booker T. Washington.
— from The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

H2 anchor XVI “Do you miss your friend greatly?” asked Mademoiselle Reisz one morning as she came creeping up behind Edna, who had just left her cottage on her way to the beach.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

Swatoslaus enjoyed and acknowledged the advantages of his new position, in which he could unite, by exchange or rapine, the various productions of the earth.
— 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 quite evident that we were being cast upwards by eruptive matter; under the raft there was a mass of boiling water, and under this was a heavier mass of lava, and an aggregate of rocks which, on reaching the summit of the water, would be dispersed in every direction.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

As just a cause may be long absence of either party, when they must of necessity be much from home, as lawyers, physicians, mariners, by their professions; or otherwise make frivolous, impertinent journeys, tarry long abroad to no purpose, lie out, and are gadding still, upon small occasions, it must needs yield matter of suspicion, when they use their wives unkindly in the meantime, and never tarry at home, it cannot use but engender some such conceit.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

On the full moon of the spring month of Phalgun, while his brothers and the nobles attended the funeral pyre, Jagmall took possession of the throne in the infant capital, Udaipur: but even while the trumpets sounded, and the heralds called aloud “May the king live for ever!”
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

The details of the case, which was dealt with rather hurriedly, have not yet been adequately cleared up, but even Protestant researchers agree that Schönitz deserved to be dealt with as a “public thief,”
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

“Yes; oh, yes!” cried Uncle Bob eagerly.
— from Patience Wins: War in the Works by George Manville Fenn

That he was a great master of war is admitted by most of those who judge his character unfavourably, but even this has been seriously questioned (e.g. by Beloch, Griech.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

While the work of the miners at the East heading and of the contractors upon both enlargements was progressing in a very satisfactory mariner, the whole was arrested by an unexpected and somewhat sudden influx of Water in the Tunnel.
— from Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866. by Tappan Wentworth

I {107} was the first one to reach the South Gate, waiting for the rest of the party to come up before entering.
— from My Life in China and America by Wing Yung

The Elegiac Stanza , or the form of verse most commonly used by elegists, consists of four heroics rhyming alternately; as, "Thou knowst | how trans | -port thrills | the ten | -der breast, Where love | and fan
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

C UTHBERT B EDE .
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. V, Number 129, April 17, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

Good swimmer as he was, the latter could not have kept much longer afloat in such a sea; and was obliged to continue to swim from shore to prevent himself from being cast up by each wave which swept under him like a racehorse, covering him and his now insensible burden.
— from The Curse of Carne's Hold: A Tale of Adventure by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

It’s my judgment, and I think it would be Emerson’s, too, that it would be a mean trick for me to come up behind ’em and begin shootin’, just for holdin’ me up, when they might have treated me a whole heap worse.
— from With Hoops of Steel by Florence Finch Kelly