He’s a kind husband and a good father too, and he will go on working for the sake of keeping the home together, but it’s little of the home he sees when he has to be away from it sixteen hours every day.
— from A Hardy Norseman by Edna Lyall

I only learned, that he had "gone away." Arthur Campbell, I do not count, of course, for I saw him every day at least, sometimes twice and oftener, in the twenty-four hours; and Alice Merivale?
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera

Et ut firma et inconutta ( sic for inconcussa) staret hec eorum donacio cartam sancti Edwardi cum aliis cartis prescriptis quas inde habebant super altare optulerunt.
— from Early London: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon and Norman by Walter Besant

To the destruction of the city during the period of the First Dynasty of Babylon and its subsequent isolation we owe the wealth of early records and archaeological remains which have come down to us, for its soil has escaped disturbance at the hands of later builders except for a short interval in Hellenistic times.
— from A History of Sumer and Akkad An account of the early races of Babylonia from prehistoric times to the foundation of the Babylonian monarchy by L. W. (Leonard William) King

'You that have ridden so fast and so far, you shall ride your last ride—ride slowly, very slowly,' cried the fiend in my ear, 'for I shall hoard every drop of your blood as John of Cassillis hoards his gold rose nobles.
— from The Grey Man by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

No single fact in Science has ever discredited a fact in Religion.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

But evidently without success, for I saw his eyes droop and his hands fall helplessly to his side as if he felt that he had exhausted every argument, and that nothing was left to him but silence.
— from The Mill Mystery by Anna Katharine Green