Heroism was gone forever; Triviality, Formulism and Commonplace were come forever.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

When Winkel, his guardian, found him not to be moved from his resolution, he told him that he threw up his guardianship from that moment Young Erasmus replied, that he took him at his word, since he was old enough now to look out for himself.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

To make it plainer, it is certain that many of the oldest and solidest words we use, were originally generated from the daring and license of slang.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The table was set out ready for me, and Mr. Duncan Ross was there to see that I got fairly to work.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Look not mournfully into the past—it comes not back again; wisely improve the present—it is thine; go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

And that reminds me—we've brought you a wedding gift from them, Anne.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Prayed to God, for the first time since the storm off Hull, but scarce knew what I said, or why, my thoughts being all confused.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

There were sentries posted to keep the ground for the troops, and servants on the batteries keeping places for the ladies, and sergeants running to and fro, with vellum-covered books under their arms, and Colonel Bulder, in full military uniform, on horseback, galloping first to one place and then to another, and backing his horse among the people, and prancing, and curvetting, and shouting in a most alarming manner, and making himself very hoarse in the voice, and very red in the face, without any assignable cause or reason whatever.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

“There are several Hebrew terms in our Cant language, obtained, it would appear, from the intercourse of the thieves [23] with the Jew fences (receivers of stolen goods); many of the Cant terms, again, are Sanscrit, got from the Gipsies; many Latin, got by the beggars from the Catholic prayers before the Reformation; and many again, Italian, got from the wandering musicians and others; indeed, the showmen have but lately introduced a number of Italian phrases into their Cant language.”
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

Bad as the churchmen might be, the Page 50 statesmen were worse; and a person of far more sanguine temperament than Erasmus might have seen no hope for the future, except in gradually freeing the ubiquitous organisation of the Church from the corruptions which alone, as he imagined, prevented it from being as beneficent as it was powerful.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

I can never be sufficiently thankful to Almighty God for the change He has wrought in you!
— from Mrs. Warren's Daughter: A Story of the Woman's Movement by Harry Johnston

This proves the falsity of Matthew’s genealogy from the Captivity to Jesus.
— from The Christ: A Critical Review and Analysis of the Evidences of His Existence by John E. (John Eleazer) Remsburg

May God forgive them and all Mohammedans and all the faithful.
— from Studies in Moro History, Law, and Religion by Najeeb M. (Najeeb Mitry) Saleeby

And we heard the noise of the thunder-wands, and were in great fear, till they told us that your enemies were fleeing.
— from The Devil-Tree of El Dorado: A Novel by Frank Aubrey

The site of the town is low, but rises gently from the water's edge.
— from The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 1, October, 1884 by Various

Otherwise credit will be given for the amount less collection fees.
— from The Fern Bulletin, October 1903 A Quarterly Devoted to Ferns by Various

Yet there are opinions on other matters in this work by this learned writer which to me do not appear probable, especially when he excludes the Germani from the number of the Celts, not having recalled sufficiently the facts given by ancient writers and not being sufficiently aware of the relation between the ancient Gallic and Germanic tongues.
— from Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, Freiherr von

"Their boats are gone from the creek now."
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

He was aware of this, and filled with demon-satisfaction that his motion held good for two.
— from Women in Love by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence