“Madame,” said the public prosecutor, “Monsieur Lucien de Rubempre is not guilty either of robbery or of poisoning; but Monsieur Camusot has led him to confess a still greater crime.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Fur-mittens and ear-muffs are not de rigueur in northern Germany in midsummer, but I should have worn them that afternoon of August 5, for the reception awaiting me at Heilbron's hands was of arctic frigidity.
— from The Assault: Germany Before the Outbreak and England in War-Time by Frederic William Wile

But the mere numerical calculation of his decreasing resources is no guide to the moral disorder which the peril alone may cause.
— from The Two Maps of Europe, and Some Other Aspects of the Great War by Hilaire Belloc

For more than half a century there has been a mission station at Dorei in the N.W. but until 1899 when the Dutch assumed the direct 23 control of the country, which was till that time nominally governed by the Sultan of Tidor (Ternate), there was no sign of Dutch rule in New Guinea.
— from Pygmies & Papuans: The Stone Age To-day in Dutch New Guinea by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

and he ain't done right in not going to see her for thirty years—and if he's that close to the big town he could run over from Jersey City for a look—see.
— from Somewhere in Red Gap by Harry Leon Wilson

"That damned Rozeno is not going to see anybody in the morning!"
— from Sinister Paradise by Robert Moore Williams

Every year the old world puts on new bridal beauty, and celebrates its Whit-Sunday, when in the sweet Spring each bush and tree dons reverently its new glories.
— from Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Albert Pike