such spots are there on the disc of the clearest planet; and eyes like Miss Scatcherd’s can only see those minute defects, and are blind to the full brightness of the orb.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Why, that's just like a book—I've read lots of 'em; 'Lady Maud's Secret,' and 'The Lost Heir,' and 'Hidden for Years'—all of 'em had mysteries and things just like this.
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Sans les femmes les deux extrémités de la vie seroient sans secours, et le milieu sans plaisir —Without woman the two extremities of life would be destitute of succour, and the middle without pleasure.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

INTERPRETATION OF THE ALLEGORY.—In the sixteenth century it was the opinion of Puritan England that every literary masterpiece should not only give entertainment, but should also teach some moral or spiritual lesson.
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser

That all troubles are to be endured for the sake of eternal life "My Son, let not the labours which thou hast undertaken for Me break thee down, nor let tribulations cast thee down in any wise, but let my promise strengthen and comfort thee in every event.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

To be effective, leaflets must scatter.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Se encuentra uno en la misma situación que en la radio o en la televisión, es decir, que si no hay audioclips e imágenes, una noticia aunque sea importante se hace menos atrayente por este medio.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

They would not even let me see M. Bernard’s lawyer, or inform him that I was in prison; it was only just now that the jailer came, and told me that I must put on my coat and appear in court.
— from Mauprat by George Sand

Upper parts variegated with transverse, rather zigzag, spots of yellowish-brown; scapulars with broad, elliptical, longitudinal medial spots of pure white; wing-coverts with large rounded, and outer webs of primaries with smaller and more quadrate, spots of pure white.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 3 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

“It is early; let me see you to your carriage.”
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Wherever, as is so often the case, private companies now enjoy a complete or a substantial monopoly of any service, and do so by virtue of permanent franchises, every legal means should be taken to nullify such an intolerable appropriation of the resources of the community.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

Before my stock of metaphors is exhausted, let me say that I have one hope of escape from the cross-fire of denunciation which independent speaking about Ireland is apt to provoke.
— from Ireland In The New Century by Plunkett, Horace Curzon, Sir

De Guyse, ... et le Mareschal Sainct André, pour la Conspiration du Triumvirate, et depuis mises en délibération à l’entrée du Sacré et
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

"Please! I'll only ride him up to the end of the block and back, and I won't go fast, either. Let me show you how I can ride him," urged Tad Butler, with a note of insistence in his voice.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies; Or, The Secret of the Lost Claim by Frank Gee Patchin

An English lady, met since our return, informed me that she and her party spent several days in the forest, in one of the forestier's houses, for lodging in which, permission must be obtained from the authorities at Ajaccio; and that, although destitute of all comforts and almost of furniture, the house was not in any way obnoxious from dirt.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde