But Miss Price and Mr. Edmund Bertram, I dare say, would take their chance.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

"From that point of view it was extraordinary, but it did not seem to me to be a form of art which you could call 'elevated,'" said Swann with a smile.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

I wouldn't mention the chance to everybody, because I don't think everybody would succeed in getting it, if he were to try; but I mention it to you, Tulliver, between ourselves."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

“He, he!” faintly laughed Mr. Lovel, as he moved abruptly from the window; “‘pon honour, this is pleasant enough; but I don’t see what right any body has to lay wagers about one without one’s consent.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes, that carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he should not go to sea, ‘une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else, but I did nothing, si ni baisser her’.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the union of the sexes each alike contributes to the common end, but in different ways.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I find an esteem for him immediately to arise in me: His company is a satisfaction to me; and before I have any farther acquaintance with him, I would rather do him a service than another, whose character is in every other respect equal, but is deficient in that particular.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

I knew he was extravagant, but I did not think that he would be so mean as to hang his risks on his oldest friend, who could the least afford to lose.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

He had brought his family into a way of being great; but dying at this time, his memory and name ... will be quite forgot in a few months as if he had never been, nor any of his name be the better by it; he having not had time to will any estate, but is dead poor rather than rich.'
— from Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy by J. R. (Joseph Robson) Tanner

This luggage, and some mysterious bundles on the box that the coachman thought were hidden by his legs but which bulged out unhideable on either side, prevented our looking elegant; but I did not want to look elegant, and I had gathered from the remarks of those who had refused to walk that Rügen was not a place where I should meet any one who did.
— from The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen by Elizabeth Von Arnim

There was here less delicacy; the skin supported more callously the natural surface of events, the mind received more bravely the crude facts of human existence; but I do not think that there was less effective refinement, less consideration for others, less polite suppression of self.
— from Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson

Rougon, who was in a high fever, felt exasperated by its distant wailing.
— from The Fortune of the Rougons by Émile Zola

Up, and all day long finishing and writing over my will twice, for my father and my wife, only in the morning a pleasant rencontre happened in having a young married woman brought me by her father, old Delkes, that carries pins always in his mouth, to get her husband off that he should not go to sea, 'une contre pouvait avoir done any cose cum else, but I did nothing, si ni baisser her'.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665 by Samuel Pepys

I do not pretend to have treated the subject exhaustively, but I do claim that never before has so manifold a range of crosses been depicted within the compass of a single volume; nor has so systematic an analysis and classification of the various types of crosses, tracing the course of their historic evolution, been attempted by any previous writer in the English language.
— from Old Crosses and Lychgates by Aymer Vallance

I want to see the earth before it disappears completely from our eyes!"
— from The Moon-Voyage by Jules Verne

Thus he would say “I will have you arrested right now—in five minutes,” or (his best) “You think I do not understand the English, but I do.
— from The Tunnellers of Holzminden (with a side-issue) by H. G. (Hugh George) Durnford

From the time of Christ, perhaps even before it, down to sixty years ago, the languages and monuments of Egypt and Chaldæa had never been looked upon by the eye of intelligence.
— from Palæography Notes upon the History of Writing and the Medieval Art of Illumination by Bernard Quaritch