“We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand, and it is no good moving from place to place to save things; because the shadow always follows.
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Master Hugh closed his reproofs, by telling me that, hereafter, I need give myself no uneasiness about getting work; that he “would, himself, see to getting work for me, and enough of it, at that.”
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

So at Mowat in New Guinea men have no relation with women when the turtles are coupling, though there is considerable laxity of morals at other times.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Her mother—her mother always so kind and tender towards her—seemed now and then so much discontented with their situation; thought that the bishop strangely neglected his episcopal duties, in not giving Mr. Hale a better living; and almost reproached her husband because he could not bring himself to say that he wished to leave the parish, and undertake the charge of a larger.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Perhaps we are laying too much stress on the choice of a trade; as it is a manual occupation, Emile’s choice is no great matter, and his apprenticeship is more than half accomplished already, through the exercises which have hitherto occupied him.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I hope he is not going mad,” said Weedon’s mother.
— from White Fang by Jack London

Purdiyus ipursantu, ngánung gibúhat mu man tu?
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If this has been done by the command of the magician king your father, through fear that I should not afford you the aid you need and are entitled to, I may tell you he did not know and does not know half the mass, and was little versed in the annals of chivalry; for, if he had read and gone through them as attentively and deliberately as I have, he would have found at every turn that knights of less renown than mine have accomplished things more difficult: it is no great matter to kill a whelp of a giant, however arrogant he may be; for it is not many hours since I myself was engaged with one, and—I will not speak of it, that they may not say I am lying; time, however, that reveals all, will tell the tale when we least expect it.”
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

gueux, gueuse , indigent; nécessiteux. guide , m. , celui qui accompagne quelqu'un pour lui montrer le chemin.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

So you definitely mean to have your way in not giving me anything to say through the whole scene?"
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

But, as it is my design never to return—or not for some weeks—or not until certain concealments are effected—the gaining of time is the only point about which I need give myself any concern.’
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

After the launch and other boats were laden, they hoisted the casks on deck, and continued the operations in no gentle manner until they reached the ground tier.
— from Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale by John Sherburne Sleeper

There is no good making any trouble about the hand grenades.
— from Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 by Ian Hamilton

There is no greater mistake in education than to associate virtue in early youth with gloomy colours and constant restrictions, and few people do more mischief in the world than those who are perpetually inventing crimes.
— from The Map of Life Conduct and Character by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

A physiological chemist, a friend of the author, who is responsible for the suggestion that the function of saliva in turning the starches of our food into nutritious glucose may never have been fully given a chance to act, thus accounts for the last delicate sweet taste which is attained by complete mastication.
— from The New Glutton or Epicure by Horace Fletcher

“It seems to me,” said Hircan, “that it is no great merit in a man to keep his chastity for love of his wife, inasmuch as there are many reasons which in a manner compel him to do so.
— from The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre A Linked Index to the Project Gutenberg Edition by Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre

X. With how great benefits this Iland of ours hath béene indued from the beginning, I hope there is no godlie man but will readilie confesse, and yéeld vnto the Lord God his due honour for the same.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison