If Fred Arnold never comes back from overseas, this will haunt me all my life.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As the channel of trade between the East and the West, as the seat of a government that first organized the political news service and the consular system in the modern sense, the old city of lagoons formed a natural collecting center for important news items from all lands of the known world.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I cannot tell you how bitter it is to me that the art I love has fallen into the hands of people I detest; how bitter it is that the best men look on at evil from afar, not caring to come closer, and, instead of intervening, write ponderous commonplaces and utterly useless sermons....”
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

'I was very glad, when I heard my lord the Count was coming, for this had been a sad desolate place, these many years, and we heard such strange noises, sometimes, after my lady's death, that, as I told you before, my husband and I left it for a neighbouring cottage.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

It inspired me with new fortitude and new calmness to find that it was I who was under the necessity of reassuring him.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Short of Gravesend it grew calme, and so we come to an anchor, and to supper mighty merry, and after it, being moonshine, we out of the cabbin to laugh and talk, and then, as we grew sleepy, went in and upon velvet cushions of the King’s that belong to the yacht fell to sleep, which we all did pretty well till 3 or 4 of the clock, having risen in the night to look for a new comet which is said to have lately shone, but we could see no such thing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He sprang over the poodle and vigorously attacked a collie, and the collie woke up, and immediately commenced a fierce and noisy contest with the poodle.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

If it were otherwise, a single glance Would tell us there could be no fortune and no chance.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

If solutions of these two compounds were mixed, the metals Fe and Na could be separated by the addition of NH4OH, similar to the separation of Ag and Cu by HCl.
— from An Introduction to Chemical Science by Rufus P. (Rufus Phillips) Williams

Having learned how to reduce these ores, there are many ways in which it might have been found that a mixture of the two metals would form a new compound of greatly increased value.
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

On the day after his second meeting in Meleager’s house, he has all sorts of remarkable and apparently disconnected experiences; he finds a narrow cleft in the wall of the portico where Gradiva had disappeared, meets a foolish lizard-catcher, who addresses him as an acquaintance, discovers a secluded hotel, the “Albergo del Sole,” whose owner talks him into buying a metal brooch encrusted with green patina, which had been found with the remains of a Pompeiian girl, and finally notices in his own hotel a newly-arrived young couple, whom he diagnoses to be brother and sister, and congenial.
— from Delusion and Dream : an Interpretation in the Light of Psychoanalysis of Gradiva by Sigmund Freud

"It's absurd to think that anything can be frozen and no changes made."
— from Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare by John L. (John Louis) Spivak

Twelve yards beyond the spruce I found a nearly completed nest in tall lilacs; but this nest was not finally occupied.”
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

The absence of odor and taste gives it much of its value for box making, because foods are not contaminated by contact with it.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

He was firm and nothing could move him.
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

" Mr. Gaskell went to the bookcase and looked for a moment at the titles of the books, as though expecting to see something in them to assist his inquiries; but finding apparently no clue, he said— "This is the last time we shall meet for three months or more; let us play the Gagliarda and see if there be any response.
— from The Lost Stradivarius by John Meade Falkner

No fox ever beheld a fresher, fairer child's face, and no child had ever before heard a fox talk, or met with one who dressed so handsomely and ruled so big a city.
— from The Road to Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

With a population of 50,000, they were to obtain the rights of political freedom, and no convict ship was to anchor on their shores.
— from The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West