One evening in seven he had long generously bestowed on me, devoting it to the examination of what had been done in various studies during the past week, and to the preparation of work for the week in prospect.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Mr. Dryden is very sparing in it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

“You're so nippy at it,” John said, “couldn't you do it very slowly once?”
— from Peter Pan by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

Moved by the remembrance of his friend, and by the sad beauty of his own poetry, his eyes were filled with tears, and when he had done reciting the stanzas he said, in a tone of touching simplicity, ‘Ditemi il vero, si puo air meglio’?
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I have passed my days in vainly searching for solid attachments.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Her sense of duty is very strong.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As if he had said, that they were gathered unto various places; and not that the whole body of the waters was gathered unto one place, as one ocean, but that they were distributed into various seas and rivers; some higher up, and some lower down, some greater, and some less, etc. V. 9b.
— from Commentary on Genesis, Vol. 1: Luther on the Creation by Martin Luther

My goods are nothinge when they offered bee; But my delight[s] are in those saints of Thine, Which liue on Earth, and doe in vertue shine; But they which runn to worshipp idolls vaine, Shall multiply their sorrow and their paine.
— from The Complete Poems of Sir John Davies. Volume 2 of 2. by Davies, John, Sir

Fled are the singers that from language drew Its virgin secrets; and in narrow space
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

I must however do him the justice to say my fears carried my suspicions farther than I afterwards found I had any reason to carry them: he did indeed very soon acquaint me with his passion, and used all those gentle methods which frequently succeed with our sex to prevail with me to gratify it; but never once threatened, nor had the least recourse to force.
— from The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great by Henry Fielding

He found that a fowl died in violent spasms eight minutes after a bite; and a second fowl, bitten directly afterwards by the same snake, with its half-exhausted venom, in ten minutes.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

When the dip is very slight, and the beds nearly horizontal, the Lower Tertiary sands occasionally spread over a still larger extent of surface, as between Stoke Pogis, Burnham Common, and Beaconsfield, and in the case of the flat-topped hill, forming Blackheath and Bexley Heath, as in Fig.
— from Water Supply: the Present Practice of Sinking and Boring Wells With Geological Considerations and Examples of Wells Executed by Ernest Spon

xvj s. “Item, the price of ilk purse iiij d. Inde, viij s. “Item, for making of the saidis gownis viij li.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott