But you have no right, for I never speak to anyone.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And first indeed, not suspecting the artifice, they returned to their homes by no means with reluctance.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

And as it is through these materials that he has to find expression, what expressive qualities they possess must be studied, and those facts in nature selected that are in harmony with them.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

That La Fontaine should have once been the friend of Fouquet is not sufficient to account for this denial of royal favour, since Pélisson, the eloquent defender of the Surintendant, was himself at this period the object of distinguished royal patronage.
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

As an illustration of the misleading use of the term "contemporaneous" as employed by geologists, Huxley gives the following illustration: "Now suppose that, a million or two of years hence, when Britain has made another dip beneath the sea and has come up again, some geologist applies this doctrine {i.e., the doctrine of the Contemporaneity of the European and of the North American Silurians: proof of contemporaneity is considered to be established by the occurrence of 60 per cent.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Probably no man under forty ever lost a woman without feeling in some degree compensated by a sense of freedom regained, and in the man of solitary and self-reliant nature, to whom freedom is a boon if not a necessity, this feeling is not slow to assert itself.
— from The Blood of the Conquerors by Harvey Fergusson

Traveling libraries, school libraries, and Grange libraries are giving new opportunities for general reading, and the farmer's family is not slow to accept the chance.
— from Chapters in Rural Progress by Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech) Butterfield

A number of extinct animals, such as Ammonites and Belemnites, belong to this group—their shells may be seen in any good museum; those of the Belemnites, as their name implies, are shaped like a dart; those of the Ammonites, like that of the beautiful Nautilus of our times; but the fisherfolk of Whitby, where they are found in numbers, say they are "snakes turned to stone."
— from Twilight and Dawn; Or, Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation by Caroline Pridham

Dr. Farrar is not sure that all the people who were thought to go to hell really go there.
— from Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) by G. W. (George William) Foote

The façade is not seen to advantage, from its close proximity to the road.
— from The Church Index A Book of Metropolitan Churches and Church Enterprise: Part I. Kensington by William Pepperell

Beyond, again, is the office, where three men find it no sinecure to attend to the continuous stream of comers for welcome, membership, or information.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 4, April, 1884 by Various

What was the fate of the remaining three Cossacks I do not know, but I think, says the witness Shimchak, in concluding his account of the case, they must have been also killed, for I never saw them again.
— from German Atrocities: An Official Investigation by J. H. (John Hartman) Morgan

But when these great breaks in the thick ice occur, toward the end of the winter, the new ice that forms is never so thick as is the rest, and so when the spring warmth comes it is the first to disappear.
— from Winter Adventures of Three Boys in the Great Lone Land by Egerton Ryerson Young