“No, I’ll die first!” Elias wrung his hands, saying, “Well then, at least parry the blow.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

Paulina Mary cast once or twice towards me a quiet but penetrating glance of her dark, full eye; her lips half opened, as if to the impulse of coming utterance: but she saw and delicately respected my inclination for silence.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

It's as good as an organ, and as different from every day, too.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Ces systèmes renvoient à un grand volume de texte permettant de trouver des "factiodes" (et non des opinions ou des motifs ou des chaînes d'événements) en réponse à des questions telles que: "Quelle est la capitale de l'Ouganda?", ou bien: "Quel âge a le président Clinton?", ou bien: "Qui a inventé le procédé Xerox?", et leurs résultats obtenus sont plutôt meilleurs que ce à quoi je m'attendais.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

God has then shown by the deliverance from Egypt, and from the sea, by the defeat of kings, by the manna, by the whole genealogy of Abraham, that He was able to save, to send down bread from heaven, etc.; so that the people hostile to Him are the type and the representation of the very Messiah whom they know not, etc.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

[ Repeating ] Dear Fainall, entertain Sir Wilfull:—thou hast philosophy to undergo a fool; thou art married and hast patience.
— from The Way of the World by William Congreve

“What is to be done?” demanded Duncan, losing the first feeling of disappointment in a more manly desire for exertion; “what will become of us?”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

The idea of cause and effect is derived from experience, which presenting us with certain objects constantly conjoined with each other, produces such a habit of surveying them in that relation, that we cannot without a sensible violence survey them iii any other.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

With an ominous perception that as his departing footsteps echoed adown the staircase the sway of Britain was passing for ever from New England, he smote his clenched hand on his brow and cursed the destiny that had flung the shame of a dismembered empire upon him.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To whom I, who respected my dog (as Ben saith of Master Shakespeare) on this side idolatry as much as anything, was yet fain to point out — more in sorrow than in anger — that a dog, being an animal who delights to pass his whole day, from early morn to dewy eve, in shoving his nose into every carrion beastliness that he can come across, could hardly be considered arbiter elegantiarum in the matter of smells.
— from Pagan Papers by Kenneth Grahame

At length, however, the work was completed, and that with such success that the greatest deviation from exactitude was less than a single foot for the whole length of seven and a half miles.
— from Light Science for Leisure Hours A series of familiar essays on scientific subjects, natural phenomena, &c. by Richard A. (Richard Anthony) Proctor

damdámin feeling , emotion 276(29) .
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

That he should have deliberately chosen the rival metre is proof—a proof which even the exquisite work of Goldsmith is not sufficient to gainsay—that, by the middle of the eighteenth century the heroic couplet had been virtually driven from every field of poetry, save that of satire.
— from English literary criticism by Charles Edwyn Vaughan

If Christ tasted death for every man, He will save every man!
— from Love's Final Victory Ultimate Universal Salvation on the Basis of Scripture and Reason by Horatio

The economy remains relatively healthy despite falling export commodity prices.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

{280} ” Patty and Prue Took baths in a flue: Nathan and Ned Caught fish in their bed: Nothing could hide ’em, And Dorothy fried ’em: This was on Tuesday, Which always was news day.
— from Lilliput Lyrics by W. B. (William Brighty ) Rands

Now this is a vast deposit, far exceeding any known to exist elsewhere, and it requires a special [27] explanation to account for it.
— from The Netherworld of Mendip Explorations in the great caverns of Somerset, Yorkshire, Derbyshire, and elsewhere by Ernest A. (Ernest Albert) Baker

As the long Dyak village houses are often built at great distances from each other, the missionary who wishes to do effective work among the Dyaks must travel from house to house.
— from Seventeen Years Among the Sea Dyaks of Borneo A Record of Intimate Association with the Natives of the Bornean Jungles by Edwin Herbert Gomes