“No,”—he calmly replied,—“there is but one married woman in the world whom I can ever allow to invite what guests she pleases to Donwell, and that one is—” “—Mrs. Weston, I suppose,” interrupted Mrs. Elton, rather mortified.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But in this connection its symbolism is more especially referable to a passage in Isaiah: 4 ‘There shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a branch shall grow out of his roots; and the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of the knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I made 'em rig me up a sort of holy of holies, and a deuce of a time I had too, making them understand what it was I wanted them to do.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I thought no more of the matter, but early the next day the same Jew called on me, and told me that I must either return him his money, or give sureties for the amount till he had ascertained whether the bill was a forgery or not.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“It is most extraordinarily rum!” said Peter.
— from The Railway Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

But further, Common Sense (in modern Europe) recognises a strict duty of preserving one’s own life, even when the prospect life offers is one in which pain preponderates over pleasure; it is, indeed, held to be right and praiseworthy to encounter certain death in the performance of strict duty, or for the preservation of the life of another, or for any very important gain to society; but not merely in order to avoid pain to the agent.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

che passa i monti, e rompe i muri
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

But why and wherefore the unfortunate corpse was found so often turned upon its face, that I cannot explain, and it must ever remain a mystery, I think.
— from Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 2 by Wilhelm Meinhold

But hold:—there is a memory in my earlier recollection, more fixed than the trees—they were poplars—of the Friars' School playground.
— from The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making by W. D. (William Douw) Lighthall

To that I might easily retort, 'So much the better for Europe, and the more of it the merrier, to win their way into the great comity.'
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

Perhaps the most interesting of these burial-grounds is one which belonged to the Bancroft Almshouses in Mile End Road.
— from The London Burial Grounds Notes on Their History from the Earliest Times to the Present Day by Isabella M. Holmes

The duke de Vendôme did not despair of obliging the confederates to abandon their enterprise: the French ministers at Rome and Venice publicly declared the allied army was cooped up in such a manner, that it must either raise the siege or be famished.
— 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

The puffing, panting, stumbling people, who forge ahead, herring-boning or turning their ankles over their Skis so as to get a grip with their boots, are not included in my "experienced runners."
— from Ski-running by Katharine Furse

It might even repudiate the Federal debt, which is affirmed in that amendment.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

At intervals my eyes rested upon the walls of the distant dwelling; it was not so distant but that a human form could have been distinguished upon its roof, had one been there.
— from The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Mayne Reid