'Upon my word, Liz,' drawing the back of his hand across them, 'I mean to be a good brother to you, and to prove that I know what I owe you.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

I dare say he has; and though it may cut him off from some advantages, it will secure him many others.”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Beneath all his ludicrous talk I could see that he himself was quite convinced that something was going to happen, and though in most cases these convictions turn out to be utter moonshine—and this particular one especially was to be amply accounted for by the gloomy and unaccustomed surroundings in which its victim was placed—still it did more or less carry a chill to my heart, as any dread that is obviously a genuine object of belief is apt to do, however absurd the belief may be.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Nowhere do we feel so much at home, and though it may have none of the imposing magnificence of the great house, it is often far more charming.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

They grew out of his heart, and typify, it may be, some hideous secret that was buried with him, and which he had done better to confess during his lifetime."
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

He did battle with Chu Jung [said to have been one of the ministers of Huang Ti, and later the God of Fire], but was not victorious; whereupon he struck his head against the Imperfect Mountain, Page 82 Pu Chou Shan, and brought it down.
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

According to Wafford, it was well known some eighty years ago to the old Cherokee hunters, who described it as covered with deep impressions made by buffalo running along the rock and then butting their heads, as though in mad fury, against a rock wall, leaving the prints of their heads and horns in the stone.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Hence Mr. Gambit could go away from the chief grocer's without fear of rivalry, but not without a sense that Lydgate was one of those hypocrites who try to discredit others by advertising their own honesty, and that it might be worth some people's while to show him up.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Meanwhile, however, there grew up in his son that new kind of harder and more dangerous skepticism—who knows TO WHAT EXTENT it was encouraged just by his father's hatred and the icy melancholy of a will condemned to solitude?—the skepticism of daring manliness, which is closely related to the genius for war and conquest, and made its first entrance into Germany in the person of the great Frederick.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In any case we must have a trial; it must be done after trial.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Earthman tore his weapon from him and thrust its muzzle against his recent opponent's chest.
— from The Revolt of the Star Men by Raymond Z. Gallun

The telegram went on to explain that the Government of the United States had had it in mind for some time past to make such representations on behalf of neutral nations and humanity, and that it must not be thought that they were prompted by the Governments of the Central Powers.
— from The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton Jesse Hendrick

It is a higher, a more absolute power than we trust even to the king himself; and, therefore, I must think we ought not to vest any such power in his majesty’s lord-chamberlain.”
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I begged him to give me his address that I might communicate with him.
— from Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 by James Kennedy

Think," she added, laying her hand on his, as she was leaving the room, "think well on my words, for I can have but one wish at my heart, and that is my son's happiness."
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

The floor was covered with ochre-coloured sawdust, trampled here and there into mud, and stained with dark rings of spilt liquor.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He argued to infatuated men.
— from Ancient States and Empires For Colleges and Schools by John Lord

Still he admitted that it might not have done so quite so much but for the pain it caused the girl.
— from The Girl from Keller's by Harold Bindloss

When other hands the scales shall hold, And they, in men's and angels' sight Produced with all their bills and gold, "Weigh'd in the balance and found light!"
— from The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Jonathan Swift