Then it came into my head, from my master's caution, that possibly this woman might be employed to try to get a letter into my hands; and I was resolved to watch all her motions.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But I've got a letter i' my pocket, as he wrote himself for me to give you.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

In the first place, they are wrong in forbidding men to premeditate on futurity and blaming their wish to do so; for there is nothing that breaks the edge of grief and lightens it more than considering, during one’s whole life, that there is nothing which it is impossible should happen, or than, considering what human nature is, on what conditions life was given, and how we may comply with them.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Mutuung ang ákung tutunlan nga magtan-aw sa mga bátang manligdas lang sa asíras magabíi, I get a lump in my throat when I see children sleeping on the sidewalks at night.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If he had wanted to get a location in my flat, and then cut my throat, he would have pitched a milder yarn.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

Miss Susan B. Anthony spoke last evening to the largest audience that ever greeted a lecturer in Marshall, and we have had Mrs. Stanton, Theodore Tilton, Mark Twain and Olive Logan.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Even those who are principally actuated by the love of fame are necessarily made familiar with the thought that they are not exclusively actuated by that motive; and they discover that the desire of getting a living is mingled in their minds with the desire of making life illustrious.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And over this I forbid, under the paine of everlasting damnation, that no minister of mine, or of my successors, intermeddle them with any the goods, lands, or possessions of the said persons taking the said sanctuary; for I have taken their goodes and livelode into my special protection, and therefore I grant to every each of them, in as much as my terrestriall power may suffice, all maner freedom of joyous libertie; and whosoever presumes or doth contrary to this my graunt, I will hee lose his name, worship, dignity, and power, and that with the great traytor Judas that betraied our Saviour, he be in the everlasting fire of hell; and I will and ordayne that this my graunt endure as long as there remayneth in England eyther love or dread of Christian name.”
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Full canisters of fragrant lilies bring, Mix’d with the purple roses of the spring; Let me with fun’ral flow’rs his body strow; This gift which parents to their children owe, This unavailing gift, at least, I may bestow!”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

Calf’s foot, likened as a treat, To a jelly it would beat: She hath two—but my regard Makes each foot excel a yard— Go any lengths it might reveal, Save when she turns upon her heel.
— from Lady Eureka; or, The Mystery: A Prophecy of the Future. Volume 2 by Robert Folkestone Williams

Generally a liquid is more dense than its vapor; for this reason it falls to the bottom, and the two are separated by a level surface.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, July 1885, No. 10 by Chautauqua Institution

Oh, very good, very good, very good. —Annaverna, Louth, Ireland (Miss R. Stephen).
— from The Traditional Games of England, Scotland, and Ireland (Vol 1 of 2) With Tunes, Singing-Rhymes and Methods of Playing etc. by Alice Bertha Gomme

His tenaciousness of what is grand and lofty, is more praiseworthy than his delight in what is low and
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

You deserved this light punishment; but I know you to be good and loyal; I mean to show myself your friend, as you shall soon see."
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

Your herb-snuff and the four glasses are lying in my warehouse, but I can hear of no ship going to Paris.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

To go and learn I must get strong.
— from A Sister to Evangeline Being the Story of Yvonne de Lamourie, and how she went into exile with the villagers of Grand Pré by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

I am a pauper and a dependent, but one thing I am determined to do, and that is to go and live in my father’s house.”
— from A Rock in the Baltic by Robert Barr

All the flower of California have been educated by Concha Argüello, including Chonita Estenega who is so great a lady in Mexico today.
— from The Spinners' Book of Fiction by Spinners' Club