But, dear Emile, you must not let so pleasant a life give you a distaste for sterner duties, if every they are laid upon you; remember that the Romans sometimes left the plough to become consul.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In tracing the list downwards from David there would be less difficulty in explaining this, at least, to a certain point, for Matthew follows the line of Solomon, and Luke that of Nathan—both of whom were sons of David.
— from Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Besant

Did I ever tell a lie, Miss Patty?
— from Girls of the Forest by L. T. Meade

"Each functionary on being first admitted here," said Rogogin, "is compelled to take a solemn oath never to divulge its existence to a living soul—not to his wife, father, sister, brother, or dearest friend."
— from The Minister of Evil: The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia by William Le Queux

Does it extend to all lands?
— from Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Victor Cousin

Some means, he thought, must be devised to prevent such an occurrence; but he determined to leave that also for after consideration, to obtain from Henry the task of delivering his letter, and to delay its execution till after Lord Woodhall's departure.
— from The Fate: A Tale of Stirring Times by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

In that fatal masquerade of savages, when Charles VI. was so nearly burnt to death, [619] Yvain de Foix was one of those, whose dress catching fire, and being sewn on close to his skin, could not be taken off, and he died in extreme torture, after lingering two days.
— from Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

Let it be thoroughly understood by every one that the soot which hangs in a pall over London in a single day is equivalent to at least fifty tons of coal , and then there will be no difficulty in seeing that the true and the only remedy for our London fogs, with all their attendant ills, is—gaseous fuel.
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

"Neither do I, except they are living in a dull-looking house in Dereham."
— from Mollie's Prince: A Novel by Rosa Nouchette Carey