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— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Everything that we do,” I said, “should be dictated by Prudence.)
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

“I am marrying in despair, Mr. Bruff—on the chance of dropping into some sort of stagnant happiness which may reconcile me to my life.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

The tythe of the church is divided into such small portions that no one of its proprietors can have any interest of this kind.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"The road led us a merry chase over mount and ridge; we bounced and tossed, dipped into small streams, detoured around an unfinished causeway, slithered across dry, sandy river beds and finally, about 5:00 P.M., we were close to our destination, Biur.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

"I must do it," she said hopelessly.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

“Perhaps Mazarin wishes to make a speculation in beer, as we did in straw,” said Porthos.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The Indians, moreover, developed independently several systems of philosophy which bear evidence of high speculative powers.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

but because the springs it provides for morality are such as rather undermine it and destroy its sublimity, since they put the motives to virtue and to vice in the same class and only teach us to make a better calculation, the specific difference between virtue and vice being entirely extinguished.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

"'Well,' I said, 'I am rather grateful to him for carrying me safely here, and I should like to give him those peaches, but did not wish him to bite me in two while I was doing it.' "So saying I went to the peach basket, where Bowser was vainly endeavoring to get the peaches out, and opened the fastenings, while he hopped around me on his huge legs and uttered his strange chuckling laugh.
— from The Enchanted Island by Fannie Louise Apjohn

The Academy was inaugurated in 1830, and divided into six sections—Philology, Philosophy, History, Jurisprudence, Mathematics, and the Natural Sciences.
— from The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 by Various

So saying, he led the way up the damp, ill-smelling stone staircase, and opened the door of the deserted room where we have seen him once before.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

"Did I say so?
— from The Obstacle Race by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

I suspect the soul of old Homer did that—and is still doing it, somehow, somewhere.
— from The River and I by John G. Neihardt

" On the journey out, the Lincolns are said to have endured many hardships and encountered all the usual dangers, including several skirmishes with the Indians.
— from The Life of Abraham Lincoln, from His Birth to His Inauguration as President by Ward Hill Lamon

Six new and most picturesque Sermons for Lent and Easter, the various events being vividly described in six scenes.
— from Round about Bar-le-Duc by Susanne R. (Susanne Rouviere) Day