And when a man is down, you know, what can he do? {322} Whoso looks well upon Great-grace's face, shall see those scars and cuts there, that shall easily give demonstration of what I say.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress from this world to that which is to come Delivered under the similitude of a dream, by John Bunyan by John Bunyan

To him I owe the acquaintance of M. Roguin, at present the oldest friend I have and by whose means I became acquainted with Diderot, of whom I shall soon have occasion to say a good deal.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

On my return, I found the following letter from my father:— "My dear Victor, "You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

This little Creek heads in the range of mountains which run S S W & N W for a long distance on which is Scattering pine white Oake &c.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The family of Castracani was formerly numbered among the noble families of Lucca, but in the days of which I speak it had somewhat fallen in estate, as so often happens in this world.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

How far that, or any other, consideration may operate to dissolve the natural obligations of humanity and justice, is a doctrine of which I still desire to remain ignorant.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

when man may consciously, purposely, desire what is injurious to himself, what is stupid, very stupid—simply in order to have the right to desire for himself even what is very stupid and not to be bound by an obligation to desire only what is sensible.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Lo! the day of which I spoke.
— from Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act by Oscar Wilde

His death, of which I shall now speak, and his subsequent deification, were intimated by divers manifest prodigies.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

The dreamer, of whom I speak, is the man they would hate, if they had time; 'tis him they like to make the butt of their harmless jokes.
— from On Love by Stendhal

And all the grey day long, and all the dense wild night Ye wheel and hurry with the sheeted snow, By cedared waste and many a pine-dark height, Across white rivers frozen fast below; Over the lonely forests, where the flowers yet sleeping Turn in their narrow beds with dreams of weeping In some remembered woe; Across the unfenced wide marsh levels, where the dry Brown ferns sigh out, and last year's sedges scold In some drear language, rustling haggardly Their thin dead leaves and dusky hoods of gold; [Pg 35] Across grey beechwoods where the pallid leaves unfalling
— from Among the Millet and Other Poems by Archibald Lampman

To the southward, and south-east, and even to the eastward and northward of them, there are several other low islands, rocks, and shoals: Our depth of water in sailing between them and the main, was twelve, thirteen, and fourteen fathom.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Commend me to 'fonde Elderton,' * and the troop of 'metre ballad-mongers' that sleep among the dull of ancient days; but save me from that doleful doggrel of which, I shrewdly suspect, thou, Benjamin Bosky, art the perpetrator.
— from Merrie England in the Olden Time, Vol. 1 by George Daniel

Indeed, what I shall do, or where I shall settle, is uncertain.
— from Joseph Priestley by T. E. (Thomas Edward) Thorpe

At the latter end of December, and beginning of January 1795, they were cruizing off Toulon for about three weeks: during fifteen days of which, in such a series of bad weather as he had scarcely ever experienced, they were almost constantly under storm stay-sails.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

The extracapsular calymma is an alveolated sphere, the diameter of which is six to eight times that of the capsule.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

I utterly disapprove of what I saw.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

Every drop of water is spilled."
— from The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Agnes C. Laut

In the upper part of this house, called Cheshunt House, is a room, the door of which is stained with blood: the tradition is—an unfortunate lady became a victim to the Cardinal's jealousy, and that he dispatched her with his own hand.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 54, November 9, 1850 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various