Why escort, when no Patriot will steal from the Nation; or where is your Treasure?—There has been such marching and counter-marching: for it is another fatality, that certain of these Military Escorts came out so early as yesterday; the Nineteenth not the Twentieth of the month being the day first appointed, which her Majesty, for some necessity or other, saw good to alter.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Carefully Holmes held each separate shard to the light, but in no way did it differ from any other shattered piece of plaster.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

“Well,” said Madame Duval, “it’s the oddest dress for a general ever I see!”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

For in the larger country there will have existed more individuals, and more diversified forms, and the competition will have been severer, and thus the standard of perfection will have been rendered higher.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Decades full as entertaining as this I am translating, yet there is not one amongst them which my father read over with half the delight——it flattered two of his strangest hypotheses together——his N AMES and his N OSES .——I will be bold to say, he might have read all the books in the Alexandrian Library, had not fate taken other care of them, and not have met with a book or passage in one, which hit two such nails as these upon the head at one stroke.]
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But so far as we have for the basis of this concept [of Realism] only empirical principles derived from the actual purposive combination in the world, we cannot on the one hand find any remedy for the discordance that nature presents in many examples in respect of unity of purpose; and on the other hand, as to the concept of a single intelligent Cause, so far as we are authorised by mere experience, we can never draw it therefrom in a manner sufficiently determined for any serviceable Theology whatever (whether theoretical or practical).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

” When Franz had finished reading this account, so dreadful for a son; when Valentine, pale with emotion, had wiped away a tear; when Villefort, trembling, and crouched in a corner, had endeavored to lessen the storm by supplicating glances at the implacable old man,— “Sir,” said d’Épinay to Noirtier, “since you are well acquainted with all these details, which are attested by honorable signatures,—since you appear to take some interest in me, although you have only manifested it hitherto by causing me sorrow, refuse me not one final satisfaction—tell me the name of the president of the club, that I may at least know who killed my father.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The young gentleman has been bred a scholar, and is designed for an employment in the service of his country.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

He darted forward among the first ranks and shouted saying, "Argives, shall we let Hector son of
— from The Iliad by Homer

If you’ve come down for a country life, come to me, and I’ll give you plenty of it.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

The water then rushes down from all parts of the forest behind Montegnac, from those great slopes which are back of the hills on which you have your park.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

You could hunt for apartments every day for a year and never even see a place like this.
— from Peggy Finds the Theatre by Virginia Hughes

Being a German, he loved these simple domestic festivals, and encouraged them with all his heart, for they made home so pleasant that the boys did not care to go elsewhere for fun.
— from Little Men: Life at Plumfield with Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

With great hope and at the same time with deadly fear, Alvin ventured toward the afflicted crew.
— from Katy Gaumer by Elsie Singmaster

C and D Companies followed in diamond formation at a distance of about 200 yards.
— from The War History of the 4th Battalion, the London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), 1914-1919 by F. Clive Grimwade

It would appear as if the words of strong men always receive a certain dignity from approaching death.
— from Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 4 October 1848 by Various

The Dakota features are not found among the Eskimo, Nootka, Quileute, Chinook, various Salish tribes, the Kootenai, the Plateau Shoshoneans, nor in a large section of California to the north and east of the Miwok, and they are also absent from various Southwestern terminologies.
— from Culture & Ethnology by Robert Harry Lowie

"And both of you have an empress who is only too happy to have the privilege of supplying this deficiency," said Count Manteuffel, drawing forth a well-filled purse, through the silken meshes of which gold glittered, and presenting it to the lady.
— from Frederick the Great and His Court by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The Government's representatives, civil and military, are doing faithful and noble work in their mission of emancipation and merit the approval and support of their countrymen.
— from U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses by United States. Presidents