“In the meanwhile,” continued the magistrate, “our codes are in full force, with all their contradictory enactments derived from Gallic customs, Roman laws, and Frank usages; the knowledge of all which, you will agree, is not to be acquired without extended labor; it needs tedious study to acquire this knowledge, and, when acquired, a strong power of brain to retain it.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

That every like is not the same, O Caesar, The heart of Brutus yearns to think upon.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

A brief summary of his early life is needed to bring the series of his published works into due relief.
— from Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse

The eternal life is not the future life; it is life in harmony with the true order of things—life in God.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

All my early life I nursed the hope that I would eventually be able to prove that my parents were good, respectable people, and then when I was beginning to despair it went out that I belonged to a great and high family, and the aristocracy of the section extended their hands and congratulated me and patted me on the back.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

The specimen is still of the same class, but where before the design was simple geometric square and pointed as in all the early lace, it now takes on the lovely flowing scroll of the Renaissance that marks the latter half of the seventeenth century.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

The competition is only between boys, and the prize, given to excite laudable industry, not to reward consummate excellence.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 05 Miscellaneous Pieces by Samuel Johnson

The raw red liquor like thin blood had permeated all his body tissues and nerves, as water permeates the sun-dried earth, leaving it not the hard white earth but the brown soft mud.
— from The Mesa Trail by H. (Henry) Bedford-Jones