Clemence, the Wine-merchant, stumbles forward to the Bar of the Assembly, a rescued Swiss in his hand; tells passionately how he rescued him with pain and peril, how he will henceforth support him, being childless himself; and falls a swoon round the poor Swiss's neck: amid plaudits.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I, Hercule Poirot, affirm that the man who entered the chemist’s shop, and purchased strychnine at six o’clock on Monday last was not Mr. Inglethorp, for at six o’clock on that day Mr. Inglethorp was escorting Mrs. Raikes back to her home from a neighbouring farm.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

And if they for one crime have distributed all their goods to Christ's needy members, that could profit them nothing unless they desisted from all similar actions, and attained charity which worketh no evil.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I beg you will not mention it where my parents may hear of it, for they are old and feeble, and such a seemingly wanton breach of the hallowed conventionalities of our Christian civilization might all too rudely sunder the frail bridge which hangs darkling between the pale and evanescent present and the solemn great deeps of the eternities.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

Therefore all those who have achieved it, however far from faultless, are still more than mortal.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

You pass in by a stone image of the monkey god, Hanuman, and there, among the ruined courtyards, you will find a shallow pool of stagnant sewage.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

We will suppose the letters A to L to represent allied genera, which lived during the Silurian epoch, and these have descended from a species which existed at an unknown anterior period.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Over this bed spread your rubber blankets or ponchos with rubber side down, your sleeping blanket on top, and you will be surprised how soft, springy, and fragrant a bed you have, upon which to rest your "weary frame" and sing with the poet: "Then the pine boughs croon me a lullaby, And trickle the white moonbeams To my face on the balsam where I lie While the owl hoots at my dreams.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He frowned, and she continued: "I thought you might explain to her what you've just said: that society abroad is different ... that people are not as particular, and that Madame Olenska may not have realised how we feel about such things.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

For a society in which—to take one point only—there is no such thing as punishment, is necessarily a society with its essential structure so unlike our own, that it would be idle to attempt any close imitation of its rules of behaviour.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

For a single moment the difference between her position and that of Nina and Ann Eliza struck her like a blow, and she thought to herself: 'For them everything, for me nothing.'
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

He meditated, we know, an epic on Arthur, the hero of the Round Table, and had, besides, many arrears of wrath lying past for discharge; but circumstances arose which turned his thoughts away, for a season, in a different direction from either Arthur or his personal foes.
— from The Poetical Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With Life, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by John Dryden

If Madame was not going there might be room for a substitute.
— from Faces and Places by Lucy, Henry W. (Henry William), Sir

Renounce your male attire forever, a shame to your sex!
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue

"Yes," replied Mr. Smith, "he will, if he is watchful and obedient; but remember, that for a small thing, Esau lost his birthright and his blessing.
— from History of the Prophet Joseph, by His Mother by Lucy Smith

"A neighbor, in the summer," went on Miss Varian, as if she had not spoken, "a neighbor in the summer comes across after dinner, and smokes his cigar at the beach gate, if any of the family are sitting on the lawn.
— from Missy: A Novel by Miriam Coles Harris

17, 18. 'Money, the source of opulence; brilliant gems; milch cows; carriages and trained beasts of draught; vigorous elephants of graceful beauty; dwellings fit for all seasons, resounding with the noise of the anklets [32] , and by their brightness surpassing the autumn-clouds: such are boons fit to be bestowed.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

They gave her five francs, and she said, "At that price you may tease me as much as you please." Evelyn asked if it were not extraordinary how an ignorant and uncouth woman, a goatherd during her childhood, a priest's servant till she was well on in middle age, should have been able to invent a system of charity which had penetrated all over Europe.
— from Sister Teresa by George Moore

It used to be found around San Francisco, but is now extinct.
— from Field Book of Western Wild Flowers by Margaret Armstrong