'It's all bought up as fast as it can be made,' said the fellow.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Through him it was that I came by my spiritual regeneration."
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

‘“I see,” I murmured, more to prove to myself that I could break my state of numbness than for any other reason.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

I know there does still linger among maiden ladies in remote country houses a notion that English schoolboys are taught to tell the truth, but it cannot be maintained seriously for a moment.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

But it is condemned by much stronger reasons than can be alleged in its support.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

"I wish it could be managed so as my teapot and chany and the best castors needn't be put up for sale," said poor Mrs. Tulliver, beseechingly, "and the sugar-tongs the first things ever I bought."
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The one is a plain palpable object; the other an abstract notion, which though it can be made sufficiently intelligible, is not altogether so natural and obvious.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Could it be that this Voice distilling like a living mist upon the hearts of men has been the undiscovered cause of the troubled conscience and the longing for immortality confessed by millions since the dawn of recorded history?
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Jack Lightfoot, the Athlete By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Crack Nine By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot Trapped By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Rival By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot in Camp By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Canoe Trip By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Iron Arm By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Hoodoo By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Decision By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Gun Club By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Blind By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Capture By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Head Work By Maxwell Stevens Jack Lightfoot's Wisdom By Maxwell Stevens [Transcriber's Note: There was no table of contents in the original edition.
— from Frank Merriwell's Son; Or, A Chip Off the Old Block by Burt L. Standish

I did all I could by "moral suasion," as the politicians say, to soften his resentment.
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

"No, it cannot be more serious, certainly," she cried, "because 'tis just the same!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The order was for all American citizens to leave Havana, and the order was obeyed, but not without having laid the matter formally in counsel before my staff of assistants and taking their opinion and advice, which was to the effect that while personally they would prefer to remain for the chance of the little good that might be accomplished, in view of the distress which we should give our friends at home, and, in fact, the whole country, when it should be known that we were inside that wall of fire that would confront us, with no way of extricating or reaching us, it seemed both wiser and more humane to leave.
— from The Red Cross in Peace and War by Clara Barton

I waited some little time, but without hearing any repetition of the sound, so I came below, more shaken than I have ever been in my life before.
— from The Captain of the Polestar, and Other Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

The inhabitants of a town cling to their houses and possessions, and, if conquered, become mere slaves to their captors; we who live in dwellings which cost but a few weeks of work, whose worldly goods are the work of our own hands, or the products of the chase, should never be conquered; we may be beaten, but if so, we can retire before our enemies and live in freedom in the forest or mountains, or travel beyond the reach of our foes.
— from The Young Carthaginian: A Story of The Times of Hannibal by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

No frowning ledge of rock, with pine-roots in its clefts, but might serve as the barricade behind which some foe lurked; no knot of cypress-shrubs, black even on that black sheet of shadow, but might be pierced with the steel tubes of leveled, waiting muskets.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

No; more than anything they were using the “Dirty Dog,” and it can be made so filthy that it
— from Warren Commission (13 of 26): Hearings Vol. XIII (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission