“Why!” I continue, interrupting him; “does Emile suppose I shall teach him to deserve such titles?”
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I had a presentiment of what you would do, that day, ever since I saw you first in the morning.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But after—well, I’ve been day-dreaming ever since I started on this trip—and these dreams are rotten poor business.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

I cannot understand why Daddy engages such inexperienced servants.
— from Polly's Southern Cruise by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

They had kept up their friendship to a certain degree ever since, in spite of the fact that they had different Alma Maters, and had more than once fought fiercely against each other on the gridiron.
— from The Riddle and the Ring; or, Won by Nerve by Gordon MacLaren

Or if I evil be And spurn thy high decree, Even so I still shall follow, soon or late.
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall

If it does exist somewhere it surely is not in this world in which we live, thinking, knowing, and—creating science.
— from The Reform of Education by Giovanni Gentile

So regular and perfect was the plan of the temple, that, "if the dimensions of a single column, and the proportion the entablature should bear to it, were given to two individuals acquainted with the style, with directions to compose a temple, they would produce designs exactly similar in size, arrangement, and general proportions."
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Then he turned to her with a dazed expression, still in silence.
— from The Great Pearl Secret by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

As rabbits pop into their holes When dogs disturb 'em, so in shoals The Greeks forsook each brake and thicket, And popp'd their noddles through the wicket: When they were there, the better half Could hardly think they yet were safe.
— from A Burlesque Translation of Homer by Bridges, Thomas, active 1759-1775