You surely don’t mean to stick to your dull fusty old river all your life, and just live in a hole in a bank, and BOAT?
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

her star must fade like that of Dian: Ray fades on ray, as years on years depart.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

we must renounce for ever seeing our country, our friends, our relations again?" "Yes, sir.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

There are persons who possess the keenest perception for the most difficult problems, who are also not fearful of responsibility, and yet in cases of difficulty cannot come to a resolution.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

Then said the judge, “Of what family or race are you?” — “What does it concern you,” answered Alban, “of what stock I am?
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Here they can see, besides many types of granite and basalt and volcanic tuff, specimens of black obsidian, with its sharp edges and metallic ring, and sites full of red and yellow ochre.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

You Page 38 [Pg 38] surely don't mean to stick to your dull fusty old river all your life, and just live in a hole in a bank, and boat ?
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Such harmonies I have placed opposite to each other; thus blue, a primary, harmonises with orange, a secondary; yellow with purple; and red with green; and the secondary colour is placed between the two primary colours of which it is formed; thus, orange is formed of red and yellow, between which it stands; green, of blue and yellow; and purple, of blue and red.
— from Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition by Christopher Dresser

I have a long letter from my daughter Pauline full of regret at your approaching departure, which she regards as another severe trial.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

One of these days, when you're a man, I hope you will be able to go all about the world and see all these countries you are so fond of reading about: you will have to wait till then for the Himalayas.
— from Nelly's Silver Mine: A Story of Colorado Life by Helen Hunt Jackson

It was with a feeling of relief, and yet of guilt, that this timid inquirer set forth on her mission, exchanging a sympathetic significant look with Miss Wentworth before she went out.
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"I'm full of resource, as you'll find out.
— from The Root of All Evil by J. S. (Joseph Smith) Fletcher

“Fond of reading, are you?
— from Mr. Marx's Secret by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

lled Christian nations, and they are members of the same churches, worshiping in the same forms of religion and yet they are calling upon God {528} one against another, to defend them against their enemies, and to strengthen their arms to destroy their foes.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

'The Polonias have intermarried with the greatest and most ancient families of Rome, and you see their heraldic cognizance (a mushroom or on an azure field) quartered in a hundred places in the city with the arms of the Colonnas and Dorias.
— from The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray