French is the tongue you will find most useful in Europe, as it is spoken in the courts, and amongst diplomatists; but, in order fully to enjoy a visit to any country, you must speak the language of that country.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

Drawing (expressing form) is the thing you should be doing all the time.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

90 According to the Orientals, the empire of Nushirvan extended from Ferganah, in Transoxiana, to Yemen or Arabia Faelix.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Failing in that, the young woman is faced with dismissing him or marrying in opposition to her parents.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

I fell, into the trap, yet I'm to be blamed as well."
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

I fell, into the trap, yet I'm to be blamed as well.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The geometry, for instance, they taught you at school is founded on a misconception.” “Is not that rather a large thing to expect us to begin upon?” said Filby, an argumentative person with red hair.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

452 These events all fell in the third year of the 140th Olympiad.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

But what I blame you for is this, that you have not been straightforward, Bunny.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Favonius piqued him no less with a jest, than others by their unseasonable severity; he went about crying, "My friends, we shall eat no figs in Tusculum this year.
— from The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch Being Parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, Edited for Boys and Girls by Plutarch

The more vulgar he is, if he really is vulgar—I don’t know that I feel inclined to take your word for it—the more he will enjoy it.”
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

"But I'll tell you what I should have felt inclined to turn you away for," he added—"concealing the fact from me.
— from Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.
— from The World English Bible (WEB), Complete by Anonymous

While, then, without fatal injury to the younger growths, the native forest will bear several "cuttings over" in a generation—for the increasing value of lumber brings into use, every four or five years, a quality of timber which had been before rejected as unmarketable—a fire may render the declivity of a mountain unproductive for a century.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

Foiled in this, they yet agreed in another recommendation, which, seeing that the one imported his opinions from China and the other from Thibet, was very remarkable indeed.
— from Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Artemus Ward, George Macdonald, Max Adeler, Samuel Lover, and Others by Various

He had come of a family of fighters, and had been born in Santiago in 1849, and had fought in the Ten Years' War.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

It was there, for instance, that the youngest Miss Keith (the pretty one) decided to marry Jerry Clarkson, junior (and regretted it all her life).
— from The Window-Gazer by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay