"Because I held fast," answered Rudy; "and I mean to hold fast to Babette.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I advised her to lodge her husband's gun in a place of safety, by handing it to the committee of the Vaterlands-Verein in return for a receipt, as it might otherwise soon be requisitioned by the mob.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

The Kantian identification of ‘Free’ and ‘Rational’ action is misleading from the ambiguity of the term ‘freedom.’
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

He felt it, too, and told me that now he felt all right, and I might safely leave him; but I told him that, right or wrong, I was going to see in the daylight.
— from Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker

What it lacks in elaborate examples of feudal and Renaissance architecture it makes up for in storied facts of history, which though too extensive to be more than hinted at here are as thrilling and appealing as any chapter of the history of old France.
— from Castles and Chateaux of Old Burgundy by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

In 1899, messages were sent from England to France, and recently an intelligible message was flashed across the Atlantic Ocean.
— from 1000 Things Worth Knowing by Nathaniel C. (Nathaniel Clark) Fowler

"I confess a good deal of surprise at finding a respectable and intelligent man so weak-minded as to give credit to such authorities, or to form his serious opinions on information derived from such sources."
— from Home as Found Sequel to "Homeward Bound" by James Fenimore Cooper

At Chandler Lake (Aug. 9-25, 1951) the wheatear was characteristically a bird of the rock fields and rockslides and in many places was the only bird present.
— from Birds Found on the Arctic Slope of Northern Alaska by James W. Bee

Hard by yon grove our heating stove is standing red and fierce and rusty; and I must black its front and back, and get myself all scratched and dusty.
— from Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason

The profits are fifty per cent.—what cost 4 s. bringing in 6 s. One man who travels to all the fairs and races, and is more in the country than town in the summer and autumn, sells large quantities of plum-cake in Smithfield when in town, sometimes having 2 l. worth and more on his stall.
— from London Labour and the London Poor (Vol. 1 of 4) by Henry Mayhew

Even Mr. Burgess’s gravity broke down presently, then the audience considered itself officially absolved from all restraint, and it made the most of its privilege.
— from The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg by Mark Twain

By an easy step in analogy this man is also interested in politics and religion, freedom and reform, and in mechanical principles and construction.
— from Analyzing Character The New Science of Judging Men; Misfits in Business, the Home and Social Life by Arthur Newcomb