Why, even the peasant that you tell me of who marked the place of the flame would not know where to look in daylight even for his own work.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

‘I designed ‘em for each other; they were made for each other, sent into the world for each other, born for each other, Winkle,’ said Mr. Ben Allen, setting down his glass with emphasis.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I will keep out of fire if you with your habitual valor carry disorder and confusion into the enemy’s ranks, but should victory be in doubt, even for a moment, you will see your Emperor exposing himself to the first blows of the enemy, for there must be no doubt of victory, especially on this day when what is at stake is the honor of the French infantry, so necessary to the honor of our nation.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But the worst case of all is when the marrow is diseased, either from excess or defect; and this is the cause of the very greatest and most fatal disorders, in which the whole course of the body is reversed.
— from Timaeus by Plato

To draw the whole of what has been said into a few distinct points:—The passions which belong to self-preservation turn on pain and danger; they are simply painful when their causes immediately affect us; they are delightful when we have an idea of pain and danger, without being actually in such circumstances; this delight I have not called pleasure, because it turns on pain, and because it is different enough from any idea of positive pleasure.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Here the language is definitely English first, with local versions where appropriate.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

[362] aliquid offensionis, quanta illa depravatio et foeditas turpificati animi debet videri!
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Comme il comprenait fort peu l'anglais, il dit en français à l'un des joueurs: «Comment va la partie?» Celui-ci répondit en anglais: "We are two to two."
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Nay, the rudeness of the work increases this cause of grandeur, as it excludes the idea of art and contrivance; for dexterity produces another sort of effect, which is different enough from this.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

One house, however, second from the corner, was still occupied entire; and at the door of this, which wore a great air of wealth and comfort, though it was now plunged in darkness except for the fanlight, Mr. Utterson stopped and knocked.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In fact, she had a very fine collection of phrases and ideas, derived either from books or by assimilating the opinions of her companions, and thus became a sort of mechanical instrument, going off on a round of phrases as soon as some chance remark released the spring.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Wherefore, to be brief, at last, being still desired by the church, after some solemn prayer to the Lord, with fasting, I was more particularly called forth, and appointed to a more ordinary and public preaching the word, not only to, and amongst them that believed, but also to offer the gospel to those who had not yet received the faith thereof; about which time I did evidently find in my mind a secret pricking forward thereto; though I bless God, not for desire of vain glory, for at that time I was most sorely afflicted with the fiery darts of the devil concerning my eternal state.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

The soil in the neighbourhood is deep enough for the cultivation of corn.
— from Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century by Jules Verne

All that is perfect is double; each face has two profiles, each coin two sides.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

The water is deep enough far up from the sea to float her when empty, and if we choose some spot where the river runs among woods we might hide her so that she may to the last escape the attention of the Danes.
— from The Dragon and the Raven; Or, The Days of King Alfred by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

He reached it without mishap, to find it deserted except for a boy in buttons.
— from From Place to Place by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb

8 shows a cleft insulator designed especially for fixing a wire in places where it must form an angle.—
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 467, December 13, 1884 by Various

I. The term Pleasure is not commonly used so as to include clearly all kinds of consciousness which we desire to retain or reproduce: in ordinary usage it suggests too prominently the coarser and commoner kinds of such feelings; and it is difficult even for those who are trying to use it scientifically to free their minds altogether from the associations of ordinary usage, and to mean by Pleasure only Desirable Consciousness or Feeling of whatever kind.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick