Though I had forgotten the numbers, and, in many cases, the names of the guests, I remembered readily enough that by far the larger proportion of them came from Frizinghall, or from its neighbourhood.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

La ville est le séjour de profanes humains, les dieux habitent la campagne —Towns are the dwelling-places of profane mortals; the gods inhabit rural retreats. Rousseau.
— 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.

[6] Courage should be recompensed and honored, the different grades in rank respected, and discipline should exist in the sentiments and convictions rather than in external forms only.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Converts were made and Christian congregations were gathered in regions remote from Ki[=o]to and Yedo, which latter place, like St. Petersburg in the West, was being made into a large city.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

‘Show the gentleman in, Richard,’ replied Mr. Squeers, in a soft voice.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

‘I ain’t doing any harm here, am I?’ Arthur Gride in reply repeated the word ‘bell’ as loud as he could roar; and, his meaning being rendered further intelligible to Mrs. Sliderskew’s dull sense of hearing by pantomime expressive of ringing at a street-door, Peg hobbled out, after sharply demanding why he hadn’t said there was a ring before, instead of talking about all manner of things that had nothing to do with it, and keeping her half-pint of beer waiting on the steps.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

17 It would seem, however, that the growing infant requires relatively more antiscorbutic vitamine than does the adult.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

She fed him sections of the “Fetes Galantes” before he was ten; at eleven he could talk glibly, if rather reminiscently, of Brahms and Mozart and Beethoven.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

But, I forgive; repent thee honest man: Gold is Restorative, restore it then:
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Hence it may possibly be that the relative merits of Campbell, Havelock, Neill, Wilson, Nicholson, Outram, Hope Grant, Inglis, Rose, Roberts, Napier, Eyre, Greathed, Jones, Smith, Lugard, and other officers, as military leaders, will remain undecided for a long period—until dispatches, memoirs, and journals have thrown light on the minuter details of the operations.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

X. Of plants growing in rough, rocky, sandy and sunny places.
— from Herbals, Their Origin and Evolution: A Chapter in the History of Botany 1470-1670 by Agnes Robertson Arber

“And a very pretty girl it represents,” replied Walter, examining it.
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

In respect to wearing down or abrading hard stones, the diamond, according to experiments recently made by Major Beaumont, occupies a position over all other gems and minerals to a degree far beyond that which has been generally attributed to it; for in these experiments it was found that on applying a diamond, or rather a piece of the “carbonate” about to be described, fixed in a suitable holder, to a grindstone in rapid rotation, the grindstone was quickly worn down; but on repeating a similar experiment with sapphires and with corundum, it was these which were worn down by the grindstone.
— from Discoveries and Inventions of the Nineteenth Century by Robert Routledge

Sometimes, indeed, Spinello would observe that when he gazed in rapture, rather than in passion, upon the face of Beatrice, a certain something, like a ray of light, or a spark of fire fallen upon an altar, would penetrate his soul, and kindle a sudden and fierce pain; but it usually passed quickly away, and was forgotten.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 399, Supplementary Number by Various

When I was a little girl I remember reading a story about the old proverb which in those days was to be found as one of the model lines in a copy-book.
— from The Oriel Window by Mrs. Molesworth

But the most laughter was provoked at the expense of Finn Hoyer, a boy of fourteen, whose bare back his brother insisted upon exhibiting to his guest; for it was decorated with a facsimile of the picture on the stove, showing roses and luscious peaches and grapes in red relief.
— from Boyhood in Norway: Stories of Boy-Life in the Land of the Midnight Sun by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

"I am glad it rains," Rosalind said, as she gave the fire one of her vigorous stirrings; "I am glad it rains: I don't think we should have realised how lovely it is here if we were not shut in from time to time.
— from Under the Trees and Elsewhere by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Granaries in Rome, repair of, iii. 29 .
— from The Letters of Cassiodorus Being a Condensed Translation of the Variae Epistolae of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Senator Cassiodorus