Before the fleet left Yarmouth, it was sufficiently known that its destination was against Denmark.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

I must put one there—one that it will be good for dangerous young females like yerself to heed.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all That in your country's service drew your swords; But safer triumph is this funeral pomp That hath aspir'd to Solon's happiness
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

For long years and generations it lasted, but the time came.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

No less a man than [pg 388] Gautama Buddha has imagined the vanity of these few in the formula, “Let your sins appear before men, and conceal your virtues.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Some thither bent their eager course With car, and elephant, and horse, And youthful captains on their feet With longing sped their lord to meet, As though the new-come prince had been An exile for long years unseen.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It bore as a motto the following lines:— "Ye who would mend these wicked times And morals of the age, Come buy a book half full of rhymes, At three-pence York per page.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind; and she is painted also with a wheel, to signify to you, which is the moral of it, that she is turning, and inconstant, and mutability, and variation; and her foot, look you, is fixed upon a spherical stone, which rolls, and rolls, and rolls.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

These became more numerous in the edition of 1588; but the multitude of classical texts which at times encumber Montaigne’s text, only dates from the posthumous edition of 1595, he had made these collections in the four last years of his life, as an amusement of his “idleness.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

And truth to tell, I fear lest you should find, Among us here, no lover to your mind; Which of these hearts beat for the smile you gave?
— from Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry by Charles Baudelaire

"What a funny letter you wrote to me," he said.
— from The Last of the Foresters Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier by John Esten Cooke

It was the Portuguese who originally discovered the Cape of Good Hope, and for long years they were the controllers of the sea and of Africa.
— from The Story of the Highland Regiments by Frederick Watson

Will your father let you stay?”
— from In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey

Why, my man, it's poor folks like you and me, who wouldn't feel comfortable in grand churches and chapels, that want such homely places, where we can slip in and out without being looked down upon."
— from For John's Sake, and Other Stories. by Annie Frances Perram

" "Rich fellers like you can talk about money!" retorted Allison, with withering scorn; "but for me, who makes every penny I earns, he may think hisself well off to get the five shillin's I gives him every year for those blessed schools.
— from The Village by the River by H. Louisa Bedford

If between now and the end of that half-hour you come to me with any good and sufficient reason for letting you go back and live apart from me in your father's house, I will let you go.
— from The Odds And Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

The analytical investigation of the mind, in all its complexity of perceptions, and thoughts, and emotions, was reserved to form almost a new science in the comprehensive philosophy of far later years.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown