I have travelled Europe to furnish out a Show for you, and have brought with me what has been admired in every Country through which I passed.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
And what should I have to eat there?
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I have to examine them,” Kennon said gesturing at the cells.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone
In his time entered the good King Edward of England into Syria, and did great harm to the Saracens.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir
I have thus endeavoured to preserve the truth of the elementary principles of human nature, while I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
He has himself told me that the motive which induced him to enter the K——regiment must remain an everlasting secret between him and Heaven.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov
I hope to encrease the Number of these by publishing this daily Paper, which I shall always endeavour to make an innocent if not an improving Entertainment, and by that Means at least divert the Minds of my female Readers from greater Trifles.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir
"And how?" "Give me a hair, but a single hair of the head of that sinner, whose fire will never be quenched; that sinner whom God will cast down into hell, to everlasting torment."
— from Pictures of Sweden by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen
It is alike needless and impracticable here to enumerate the many speculations which were in earlier ages propounded by acute men—speculations some of which contained portions of truth.
— from Illustrations of Universal Progress: A Series of Discussions by Herbert Spencer
The bishop looked something like a criminal sentenced to death must do when the hangman awakes him on the fatal morning, and I had to explain to the bath steward that we had changed berths, and that in future No. 2 was to be awakened instead of No. 1.
— from The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 2 by Harry Furniss
Hence there is no nobler prayer to be found upon earth than the Lord's Prayer which we daily pray because it has this excellent testimony, that God loves to hear it, which we ought not to surrender for all the riches of the world.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther
"With regard to the statement of Dr Rohling that the mysterious book had been printed under the auspices of Sir Moses, I have to explain that, nearly forty years ago, with a view of encouraging industry in the Holy Land, he presented a person of the name of Israel Back with an English printing press, and the recipient in token of deep gratitude to the donor named it 'Mássát Moshe Ve Yehoodit'—a present from 'Moses and Judith;' since that time all the books printed by the use of that press bear that name on the title-page.
— from Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume 2 (of 2) Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries, from 1812 to 1883 by Montefiore, Judith Cohen, Lady
How pernicious it must be, even in health, to eat too much; since, a case of debility supposed, a little quantity more than enough hindered the nutritive effect of the food, and in truth very nearly proved fatal!
— from Four Years in France or, Narrative of an English Family's Residence there during that Period; Preceded by some Account of the Conversion of the Author to the Catholic Faith by Henry Digby Beste
The kindness shown toward William Black during his visit to England, and the fact that he was born there, naturally induced him to entertain the idea of taking a circuit and spending his remaining years in the old land, but Dr. Coke was strongly averse to him leaving Nova Scotia where so great success had attended his labours, and his influence was unbounded.
— from William Black: The Apostle of Methodism in the Maritime Provinces of Canada by John MacLean
I had trouble enough to persuade master, but he is come at last, you see.
— from The Scape-Goat: A Farce in One Act by John Poole
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