“Well, that’s enough; but now, that I mayn’t forget it,” said Pyotr Stepanovitch, passing with extraordinary coolness to another subject, “you will have to print this manifesto with your own hands.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The triumph with which the War of Independence happily ended came tardily, after seven years of battle, suffering, and exhaustion; but it was hastened, if not assured, [Pg 97] by the generous alliance of France.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 11 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

But I will take especial care, that as soldiers you shall have every thing, to a penny or a pin's head, that you are justly entitled to.”
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

He drew her into his arms with an eager, confident touch, and she yielded to him completely, clinging to him with the colour deepening in her face as he kissed it boyishly again and again.
— from A Valiant Ignorance; vol. 2 of 3 A Novel in Three Volumes by Mary Angela Dickens

The last words were spoken so near the window that Ermine caught them, and said, “Yes, come in, Colin, and learn not to grieve for me, or you will make me repent of my selfish gladness yesterday.”
— from The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

All the dotted vertical lines which rise from the horizontal, each corresponding to a successive year of life, and stop at the parabolic line, represent the relative proportion of stature from year to year; while the parabola which unites the extremities of such lines may be regarded as a line drawn tangent to the top of the head of an individual through the successive periods of his life.
— from Pedagogical Anthropology by Maria Montessori