Gilbert, have you ever once thought what it would mean for Leslie if Dick Moore were to be restored to his right senses?
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Now, as I had no theory of any kind, don't believe in Spiritualism, and copied my characters from life, I don't see how this critic can be right.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Nagsaguyud ang tarian sa manuk ingun kini sa hibigtingan, The cock’s fighting leg is dragging, as if it got slashed.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

I thought seriously of seeking employment in Spain, as not having heard from Lisbon I dared not go there on the chance of finding something to do.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

By merely giving to each other prudential instruction or exhortation, they may gain, or think they gain, nothing: in inculcating on each other the duty of positive beneficence they have an unmistakeable interest, but far less in degree: a person may possibly not need the benefits of others; but he always needs that they should not do him hurt.
— from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill

So think you thou wilt no second husband wed; But die thy thoughts when thy first lord is dead.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

[984] The progress through the western provinces was purposely slow, for Catherine still hoped against hope that Fourquevaux, who had succeeded St. Sulpice at the Spanish court, might persuade Philip II to think more favorably of her matrimonial schemes, [985] until finally, late in December, the bitter truth came out; only the younger daughter of the Hapsburgs might marry a Valois, even though he was king of France.
— from The Wars of Religion in France 1559-1576 The Huguenots, Catherine de Medici and Philip II by James Westfall Thompson

The following letter illustrates Darwin's work on aberrant genera.
— from More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished Letters by Charles Darwin

Sir Thomas More followed, his fortunes linked in death as in life to those of his friend.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

O lift one thought in prayer for S. T. C. That He, who many a year with toilsome breath Found Death in Life, may here find Life in Death.
— from Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If they find lodgment in damp situations, where other conditions are favorable, the rate of germination is high.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson

And then, with a quick curtain, the good ship Espagne, a French liner, is discovered in New York harbour the next day with Henry and me aboard her, trying to distinguish as she crawfishes out of the dock, the faces of our waving friends from the group upon the pier.
— from The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me by William Allen White

But now the inly-working North Was ripe to send its thousands forth, A potent vassalage, to fight 30 In Percy's and in Neville's right, [W] Two Earls fast leagued in discontent, Who gave their wishes open vent; And boldly urged a general plea, The rites of ancient piety 35 To be triumphantly restored,
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 4 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

I don’t care for life, I don’t care for life in Russia!’
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev