“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.” doc>
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

One speaks out boldly when a life's to save; It needs some eloquence King Death to waive; But still I hold I'm right, and don't demur, If from my former text I do not stir.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

As for me he reluctantly let me go, after dragging me hither and thither for seven whole months and keeping me under guard; so that had not some one of the gods desired that I should escape, and made the beautiful and virtuous Eusebia kindly disposed to me, I could not then have escaped from his hands myself.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

[311] In his history of the Skoponong Congregation (founded in 1844), C. M. Mason, Secretary of the congregation, names also the following among the earliest members of the church: Halvor Mathison (in whose house the church was organized in 1844), Styrk Erikson, Knud Dokstad, Nils Herre, Ole Sjurson, Simon Sakrison, Jacob Kaasne, Halvor Glenna, Mathias Baura, Björn Hefte, Sjur Flittre, Lars Klove, Mathias Lia and Even Gulseth.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

toiauta tina eipen o IoulianoV peplatusmenwV agan kai logikwV, kai met episthmhV kai deinothtoV 'RhtprikhV.] From an humble, or at least a doubtful origin, the merit of John Huniades promoted him to the command of the Hungarian armies.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

“No man that I have ever known did that—ever did that.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

[338] E. Kiefer: Die Lüge u. der Irrtum vor Gericht.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

kai toinyn kata men toutous hautê ta sômata tôn te phytôn kai tôn zôôn synistêsi dynameis tinas echousa tas men helktikas th' hama kai homoiôtikas tôn oikeiôn, tas d' apokritikas tôn Pg 46 Greek text allotriôn, kai technikôs hapanta diaplattei te gennôsa kai pronoeitai tôn gennômenôn heterais authis tisi dynamesi, sterktikê men tini kai pronoêtikê tôn engonôn, koinônikê de kai philikê tôn homogenôn.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“What dreadful thing drives her to say this, father, when it is such a pain to her?” asked Elizabeth, kneeling down by Lucetta.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Hear Ellen Key:— "Doing away with an unjust paragraph in a law which concerns woman, turning a hundred women into a field of work where only ten were occupied before, giving one woman work where formerly not one was employed—these are the mile-stones in the line of progress of the woman's rights movement.
— from Woman and Womanhood: A Search for Principles by C. W. (Caleb Williams) Saleeby

Kit of every kind disappeared.
— from In Mesopotamia by Maurice Nicoll

‘My maidenhead I’l then keep still, Let the elphin knight do what he will.’
— from Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick

The rumour is better than the reality— Endah khabar deri rupa.
— from A Manual of the Malay language With an Introductory Sketch of the Sanskrit Element in Malay by Maxwell, William Edward, Sir

Then it was not owing to inability to come to the aid of the suffering people that the eternal King did not intervene to put an end to their miseries.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

The progress in recent years has been so great that every electrician and electrical engineer is confident that electricity will become the means of accomplishing many things that have been heretofore, with our existing knowledge, deemed impossible.
— from The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting by Thomas Commerford Martin

God will ever be true to His own principles, and will ever make those happy who walk in obedience; and as He blessed Obed-edom during the three months that the ark was in his house, though even king David was "afraid," so will He now bless those who seek to meet in truth and simplicity, in the name of Jesus.
— from Life and Times of David. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. VI by Charles Henry Mackintosh

‘Ay, exactly as Eliab knew David’s pride and the naughtiness of his heart,’ said Lord Rotherwood.
— from Beechcroft at Rockstone by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"Yes, Walter, yes," said Ellinor, kindly disguising the real truth, how much her father's vigorous frame had been bowed by his state of mind.
— from Eugene Aram — Volume 05 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

There was I, an unworthy but believing member of the Church of England as by Parliament established, "knuckling down" abjectly to the ministration of a ferocious old cannibal, wizard, sorcerer, high priest,—or, as it appeared very probable,—to Satan himself.
— from Old New Zealand: Being Incidents of Native Customs and Character in the Old Times by Frederick Edward Maning