CLER: Why then, 'tis no divorce, doctor, if she consent not? CUT:
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

And the fact that they have interested and given pleasure to man for untold ages is no doubt due in some measure to the appeal they make to the eye as well as to the brain.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Doctors disagree in so far as they are not truly doctors, but, as Plato would say, seek, like sophists and wage-earners, to circumvent and defeat one another.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

“To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company.”
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Yet darkly did it seem, as there Heralds and pursuivants prepare, With trumpet sound and blazon fair, A summons to proclaim; But indistinct the pageant proud, As fancy-forms of midnight cloud, When flings the moon upon her shroud
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

And would Edmund's judgment, would his persuasion of Sir Thomas's disapprobation of the whole, be enough to justify her in a determined denial in spite of all the rest?
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Advancing more and more into the shadow of this mournful place, its dark depressing influence stole upon their spirits, and filled them with a dismal gloom.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Whenever he looked ahead at Cecily, he had a miserable longing which crushed his heart down, down; in struggling against this, he felt that Mrs. Baske's proximity was an aid, but that it would be still more so if he could move her to any unusual self-revelation.
— from The Emancipated by George Gissing

"I'd forgive you a good deal, Deady," I said; "your repeated violations of solemn pledges, your sacrilege in bringing down to a public house the most sacred melodies of the Church—" "They were at me," said Jem.
— from My New Curate by Patrick Augustine Sheehan

Though his face was singularly unwrinkled, except for rather heavy bags of loose skin below his eyes, it was quite evident that Arthur Craddock had left youth far behind him, but it would have been an imprudent man who would have wagered as to his ability to guess it within the limits of four or five years, for his corpulence was of the somewhat gross sort that may come early to an inactive man, in whose sedentary day dinner is something of an event.
— from Thorley Weir by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

Those last delightful days in Sydney left me with pleasant Australian memories to carry over the Pacific.
— from An Autobiography by Catherine Helen Spence

"In the General's private desk." "Did it seem to be a paper of any importance?" "Yes; it was kept by itself in a secret drawer.
— from The Cryptogram: A Novel by James De Mille