I would wish to know if the misfortunes which have happened to you—misfortunes entirely beyond your control, and which in no degree diminish my regard for you—I would wish to know if they have not, in some measure, contributed to render you a stranger to the world in which your fortune and your name entitle you to make a conspicuous figure?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Fi. Are you not enough The talke, of feaſts, and meetingy, but you’ll ſtill Make argument for freſh?
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

for a young nobleman, esteems of them in the first place, and Hercules de Saxonia Panth.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Her dress was composed of shreds of various-coloured silks and Linens fantastically arranged, yet not entirely without taste.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

He could not invoke the friendship of the Third Estate, for as yet none existed.
— from The Holy Roman Empire by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

She came, and thou didst fade, and fade away– Yet not entirely; no, thy starry sway 180 Page 120 Has been an under-passion to this hour.
— from Endymion: A Poetic Romance by John Keats

But in other cases the males during long ages may have struggled together for the possession of the females, and yet no effect will have been produced, unless a larger number of offspring were left by the more successful males to inherit their superiority, than by the less successful: and this, as previously shewn, depends on many complex contingencies.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

Granting that he has great luck in marrying them all well, each of these descendants will have but sixty or eighty thousand francs a year now; each is the father or mother of children, and consequently obliged to live with the strictest economy in a flat on the ground floor or first floor of a large house.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Willis was one of those rare natures upon whose purity no mire can cling; who pass through the furnace, and yet not even the smell of fire has passed upon them.
— from Two Years Ago, Volume I by Charles Kingsley

You are John Fox, are you not?" "Exactly.
— from The Young Bank Messenger by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

“Now, what is to hinder you from rigging out your sweeps and sweeping the felucca into such shallow water as will prevent the frigate yonder from approaching you near enough to reach you with her guns?
— from The Rover's Secret: A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba by Harry Collingwood

I before knew you to possess, I found among you noble enthusiasm, which leads to the performance of great things.
— from The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States by Martin Robison Delany