'I am not going to do either, not even to your Grandmother,' said Mr Inspector; 'but I mean to have it.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Tragedy advanced by slow degrees; each new element that showed itself was in turn developed.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

If so, the assertion could only be made for superficial readers, and contains nothing; such, in fact, are all the charges when duly examined, not excepting the pretence that the passport was exclusively for the Investigator ; and more has already been said upon them than is due to their real importance.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

When, roused by his cries, the people and the priests awoke and hurried to the temple, they shrank back in terror; and none dared enter, not even the priests, for from the mouths of the idol three long tongues of flame played, paling the glow of the cressets and throwing its light on the blind and writhing wretch at its feet.
— from The Heart of Denise, and Other Tales by S. (Sidney) Levett Yeats

The summer day Endures not ever: toil ye while ye may. — Hesiod, a Greek, 850 B. C. 1862 Sun. —The glorious lamp of heaven; with one eye vieweth all the world.
— from Life and Literature Over two thousand extracts from ancient and modern writers, and classified in alphabetical order by John Purver Richardson

[481] It does not appear that in the period 1885-1889 when the scrutin de liste was in operation the very desirable ends now expected to be attained by a restoration of it were realized; indeed the system lent itself more readily to the menacing operations of the ambitious Boulanger than the scrutin d'arrondissement could possibly have done.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

Safely bound by cruel thong, In the center of the throng, The captives sat in silent dread, Envying none except the dead.
— from Prison Poetry by Hiram Peck McKnight

Further, such commissioners were not to assume that discontent existed, nor even to make mention of such discontent in their discussions.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice