“Well, my dear,” replied Athos, “you know well that the balls most to be dreaded are not from the enemy.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

There is a sound of distant reapers, and yonder rises a blue line of cottage smoke against the woodland.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

The post of honour, your undoubted due. Rather alone your matchless force employ, To merit what alone you must enjoy.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

From this point, for a period of more than a thousand years, Indian literature bears an exclusively religious stamp; even those latest productions of the Vedic age which cannot be called directly religious are yet meant to further religious ends.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Death ran after you quicker than you could fly.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

M. de Royer as yet only murmured.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

Banquo, who is said by the King to have 'no less deserved,' receives as yet mere thanks.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

If on some particular occasions you find you cannot do right, assume you are out of luck, and stop playing.
— from Hoyle's Games Modernized by Professor Hoffmann

"Starting from the same point, we have followed different roads, and yet we have reached the same goal—disgust of life.
— from The Wandering Jew — Volume 09 by Eugène Sue

I do not pretend in my book to such deep Romany as you have achieved—all that I claim is to have collected certain words, facts, phrases, etc., out of the Romany of the roads—corrupt as it is—as I have found it to-day.
— from The Life of George Borrow by Clement King Shorter

'And if I do realize, and yet refuse?' 'Then God' 'Which God?
— from The Son of the Wolf by Jack London

The Northern counties were distinguished among all in England for their loyalty to the old Faith; and this was owing, no doubt, to the characters of both the country and the inhabitants;—it was difficult for the officers of justice to penetrate to the high moorland and deep ravines, and yet more difficult to prevail with the persons who lived there.
— from By What Authority? by Robert Hugh Benson

Still, a feeling of deep and maternal tenderness came over her mind, as her daughter retired; and, yielding to its sudden impulse, she recalled the girl to her side.
— from The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish by James Fenimore Cooper

Had you made your return to this place a little less abruptly, you would have found, I am sure, a different reception, and your position would have been less unpleasant.”
— from The Living Link: A Novel by James De Mille

Thought, kindred to this, kept him a long while by the fire in deep revery, after Ynys had thrilled him by her parting kisses and had gone to her father.
— from Green Fire: A Romance by William Sharp