The poor deluded female, who, like the once unhappy Miss GODFREY, has given up her honour, and yielded to the allurements of her designing lover, may learn from her story, to stop at the first fault; and, by resolving to repent and amend, see the pardon and blessing which await her penitence, and a kind Providence ready to extend the arms of its mercy to receive and reward her returning duty: While the prostitute, pursuing the wicked courses, into which, perhaps, she was at first inadvertently drawn, hurries herself into filthy diseases, and an untimely death; and, too probably, into everlasting perdition.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

11 General Otis was fond of throwing cold water on any particularly eloquent Filipino insurrecto document he had occasion to put in his reports by saying that Mabini was “the brains of” the Malolos Government—meaning the only brains it had 12 —and that he probably wrote such document, whatever it might be.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The Island of Tiboulen D antès, although stunned and almost suffocated, had sufficient presence of mind to hold his breath, and as his right hand (prepared as he was for every chance) held his knife open, he rapidly ripped up the sack, extricated his arm, and then his body; but in spite of all his efforts to free himself from the shot, he felt it dragging him down still lower.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I a firme TIMOTHY DEXTER fourder I Dont have Aney of the Ladeys of prinsbell spend the Intress I will spend Day and
— from A Pickle for the Knowing Ones by Timothy Dexter

From its dizzy heights superb views of the forests, streams, bluffs, hills and dales below and beyond for miles are brought within its focus.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

For instance, does he dance well?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I wish I'd printed it whole or not at all, for I do hate to be so misjudged."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"Her father is dead," he said.
— from From the Bottom Up: The Life Story of Alexander Irvine by Alexander Irvine

SYMBOLISM Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods, Filled with home yearnings, drowsily it flings From its deep heart high dreams and mystic moods, Mixed with the memory of the loved earth things; Clothing the vast with a familiar face; Reaching its right hand forth to greet the starry race.
— from The Nuts of Knowledge: Lyrical Poems Old and New by George William Russell

Fear drew Buck Daniels one way but a fine impulse drew him another.
— from The Night Horseman by Max Brand

Remove the large bones from the feet; beat 2 eggs with salt and pepper; dip the feet in the beaten eggs; then roll in fine bread-crumbs and fry in deep hot lard until brown.
— from 365 Foreign Dishes A Foreign Dish for Every Day in the Year by Unknown

Every man that lives in Ireland knows in his heart he must live in hot water; but somehow, though he may not like it, he gets used to it, and he finds it does him no harm in the end.
— from Lord Kilgobbin by Charles James Lever

His father, Isaac Disraeli, had broken with the family traditions, devoting himself to literature instead of getting gain, and had renounced the faith of his fathers.
— from Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century by James Richard Joy

There is no time for further inquiry; damage has been done.
— from The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by Edward Parrott

In his study of two thousand children tested by the Binet measuring scale for intelligence, Doctor Henry H. Goddard, director of the Department of Research at the Training School for Feeble-minded at Vineland, N. J., remarks concerning heredity of feeble-mindedness: “But we now know that sixty-five per cent.
— from Being Well-Born: An Introduction to Eugenics by Michael F. (Michael Frederic) Guyer

It was an unwise one as it proved, for it deprived him of his chances of occasionally obtaining her undivided attention.
— from Sylvia's Lovers — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell