What he had attained so far had been the mastery of that earlier Florentine style, with its naive and limited sensuousness.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

The name of the city is now apparently lost."
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Though, by this oppressive policy, a landed nation should be able to raise up artificers, manufacturers, and merchants of its own, somewhat sooner than it could do by the freedom of trade; a matter, however, which is not a little doubtful; yet it would raise them up, if one may say so, prematurely, and before it was perfectly ripe for them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

To this Amalia Ivanovna very appropriately observed that she had invited those ladies, but “those ladies had not come, because those ladies are ladies and cannot come to a lady who is not a lady.”
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In my last letters I writ to you that I trusted shortly to see you, which is better known at London than with any that is about me, whereof I not a little marvel; but lack of discreet handling must needs be the cause thereof.
— from The Love Letters of Henry VIII to Anne Boleyn; With Notes by King of England Henry VIII

“But Monsieur Lawrence is not a layman.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

But I noticed at last, that he seemed to show signs of wanting to tell me something.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Occult forces may indeed exist, and they may even be so disposed that the ideal is served by their agency; but the most notable embodiment of a principle is not itself a principle, being only an instance, and the most exact fulfilment of a law is not a law, being simply an event.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

That is, not any longer than it would take Wishful to pull a gun--and that ain't long."
— from Partners of Chance by Henry Herbert Knibbs

Shakspere is in nearly all libraries, be they large or small.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 05, April 1885 by Chautauqua Institution

Theirs is the unrivalled opportunity, should they bestir themselves, to carry forward to a triumphant conclusion this first corporate effort to which they have consecrated themselves and their nascent institutions, to embark, in the course of subsequent Plans, on enterprises destined to safeguard and consolidate, in all parts of the motherland, the achievements so hardly won, to proclaim, unequivocally, systematically and effectively, to the masses throughout the length and breadth of the British Isles the verities enshrined in their Faith, to initiate the establishment of a befitting National Hazíratu’l-Quds in either the capital of the United Kingdom or further north in the very heart of the British Isles, to inaugurate national and local endowments, to incorporate the newly constituted assemblies, to undertake the preliminary measures for the erection of the first Ma sh riqu’l-A dh kár in the British Empire, and to launch crusades designed to implant the banner of the Faith and lay the structural basis of its Administrative Order throughout the diversified, the numerous and widely scattered colonies of the British Crown.
— from The Unfolding Destiny of the British Bahá'í Community : the Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of the British Isles by Effendi Shoghi

The Cradle of Westward Expansion In the year 1746 I was up in the country that is now Anson, Orange and Rowan Counties, there was not then above one hundred fighting men there is now at least three thousand for the most part Irish Protestants and Germans and dailey increasing.
— from The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson

There is nothing any longer certain; all is confusion.
— from The Progressionists, and Angela. by Conrad von Bolanden

“It is not a large party,” whispered the captain to Artemus, who was close to him.
— from The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range by George Manville Fenn

“Mr Foggo is not a literary man, papa,” said Agnes, somewhat resentfully.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Enticed by a donga, which, quitting the wood at its northern angle, looked like a covered way towards the crest of the hill, the three leading companies ("A." "F." and "G.") worked steadily along it in hopes of arriving within striking distance of the enemy under comparative shelter.
— from History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government by Great Britain. War Office

It is very much indented, more so than a nettle-leaf, which in some measure it resembles, only is narrower and longer.
— from Select Specimens of Natural History Collected in Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile. Volume 5. by James Bruce