To save your 'spectability, it's worth your while to pawn every article of clothes you've got, sell every stick in your house, and beg and borrow every penny you can get trusted with.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

When you pick up the evening paper you can tell at a glance which are the important news articles.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

To save expense, perhaps you can make up something here for myself.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Estaba pálida y ceñuda.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And, though the wisest surgeons and leeches—both men and women—came from every part, yet could he be by no means cured.
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

The only being which has the purpose of its existence in itself is man , who can determine his purposes by Reason; or, where he must receive them from external perception, yet can compare them with essential and universal purposes, and can judge this their accordance aesthetically.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

You may readily be superior to any mortal being, but you shouldn't, after all, offend against what's right and make fun of every person you come across!
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

It would be tedious and uninteresting to relate all the incidents which befell me during this journey, and which I have not yet forgotten; of the various hands I passed through, and the manners and customs of all the different people among whom I lived: I shall therefore only observe, that in all the places where I was the soil was exceedingly rich; the pomkins, eadas, plantains, yams, &c. &c. were in great abundance, and of incredible size.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Pues luego que doblen Then as soon as they ring a las ánimas, con tiento for prayers, carefully, saltando al huerto, al convento jumping into the garden, see, fácilmente entrar podéis you can enter the convent easily con la llave que
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

You may find in him sentences of every possible construction; but, except in his early plays, you can hardly say that he took to any one mould of structure more than another.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

"Look here," he said, earnestly, "perhaps you can tell me; it's important, and I want to know: is a seasick man better off if he walks or sits still?
— from The Ship-Dwellers: A Story of a Happy Cruise by Albert Bigelow Paine

Mr. Jefferson's house commands one of the most extensive prospects you can meet with.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

I only laughed at your trying to pretend you were such an exalted person you couldn't travel steerage."
— from Captivity by Leonora Eyles

"If I suffer or if I starve to death it makes no difference to you, evidently, provided you can run the streets."
— from Avarice--Anger: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

[From the Guardian:] May the Beloved bless abundantly the work which your Committee has so nobly initiated, remove all obstacles from your path, aid you to realise every hope you cherish, and carry out every plan you conceive, for the furtherance of the interests of our beloved Faith and of its God-given institutions.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

de estas plaças y comprar alli ceuada en Cartagena, mediante á hauer gran falta de ella” f. 145 378.
— from Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Spanish Language in the British Museum. Vol. 4 by Pascual de Gayangos

And whereas the courtly egoist pays you compliments first and then returns to a more congenial self-contemplation, my burly young friend would, I have not the slightest doubt, grow more companionable and considerate every day that one knew him.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

We are aware that some, while agreeing with us, as they cannot help but do, that "masses" in figured music, and "figured vespers," are in the style of their composition essentially profane, yet choose them, and cause them to be performed, on the plea that the sacredness of the place and the occasion of the divine office is a sufficient corrective of their innate profanity, or that, being "magnificent," "sublime," "classic," etc., such music may justly be employed to adorn the grand functions of religion, and that the theatre ought not to boast of better music than the house of God; that—as one such admirer of classic music said to us—we ought to "spoil the Egyptians;" or again, that Protestants are attracted to churches where such music is given, and may be led by the charm of the music to inquire into the truths of our religion; and finally, that there is nothing else to take its place; the antiquated Gregorian chant being wholly unfit for the cultivated musical ears of the nineteenth century, and to banish this music from Catholic churches would be to do an irreparable injury to high art.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various