Seems I'm too darned slipperhanded to even play with a cat.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

Months ago you put your property out of your hands, boasting that you did so to escape losing it on prosecution for libel.”
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

‘Was that well done?’ said the Eldest Magician.
— from Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling

I command thee that certain of the lights be closed this day, so that every line shall have an even number of lights.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Statistics have proved that in France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Saxony, the education of the peasant, along with the security of tenure he enjoys on his small farms, has encouraged industrious, temperate, virtuous, and cleanly habits, fostered a respect for property, increased social comforts, cherished a spirit of healthy and active independence, improved the cultivation of the land, lessened pauperism, and has rendered the people averse to revolution, and friends of order.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

I am not sure that I believe in the derivation; I have heard the disgraceful suggestion that “educator,” if applied to a Roman schoolmaster, did not mean leading our young functions into freedom; but only meant taking out little boys for a walk.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Having again collected courage to proceed, after ascending about half way up the turret, she came to another door, but here again she stopped in hesitation; listened for sounds within, and then, summoning all her resolution, unclosed it, and entered a chamber, which, as her lamp shot its feeble rays through the darkness, seemed to exhibit only dew-stained and deserted walls.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

When at last Juggins whispered that time was up, that pretty story of child life had made me more sick with Juggins and his disgusting scheme than ever.
— from In Court and Kampong Being Tales and Sketches of Native Life in the Malay Peninsula by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

Whatever cause or dynasty suffered, the Emperor Alexander was still triumphant.
— from The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Daily struggling, though enclosed and lonely, Every day a rich reward will give; Thou wilt find, by hearty striving only And truly loving, thou canst truly live."
— from Plain Words for Christ, Being a Series of Readings for Working Men by Reginald G. Dutton

I suppose it does make a difference," said the eccentric man.
— from Tom Swift and His Sky Racer; Or, The Quickest Flight on Record by Victor Appleton

The premises were only available for one day, so the exhibits had to be taken down and arranged during the morning, to be in time for the opening at half-past two.
— from The Girls of St. Cyprian's: A Tale of School Life by Angela Brazil

The great man had no notion that, in dying for the Greeks, he was only dying so that Europe, as the Duc d'Orléans once expressed it to me, might have the pleasure of eating sauerkraut at the foot of the Parthenon!
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

"I dare say that each of the gentlemen will produce his commission, his orders, and his appointment to the command of the Bronx; and I don't know how we can decide between the papers.
— from Stand By The Union by Oliver Optic