"That is the truth," said the page; "for it is through Senor Don Quixote that Senor Sancho is now governor of the island of Barataria, as will be seen by this letter."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Of all the absurdities that, thanks to poetry, will be repeated to the end of time, there is no greater one than saying that "Cervantes smiled Spain's chivalry away."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

I never go over to Ireland, not having myself much of a fancy for the country.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

This was the speech of certain piratical tribes whose home was in northern Germany, on the eastern and southern shores of the North Sea, but who invaded Britain about A.D. 450, and subdued the Celtic inhabitants of the island in a series of fierce wars.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Nay, behold, in National Garden of Tuileries,—Demoiselle
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Go in, Nerissa; Give order to my servants that they take No note at all of our being absent hence; Nor you, Lorenzo; Jessica, nor you.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

(Shall I now go on to tell you how Helios took thought for the health and safety of all men by begetting Asclepios 752 to be the saviour of the whole world?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The little information gleaned from the Southern press, indicating no great obstacle to your progress, I have directed your mails (which had been previously collected at Baltimore by Colonel Markland, Special Agent of the Post Office Department) to be sent as far as the blockading squadron off Savannah, to be forwarded to you as soon as heard from on the coast.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Informal dinner dresses are worn in the boxes at the opera on ordinary nights, such as when no especially great star is to sing, and when one is not going on to a ball afterward, but a ball dress is never inappropriate, especially without head-dress.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

And, on the contrary, if he who is not guilty of that whereof he is accused, has the courage to undergo those torments, why should not he who is guilty have the same, so fair a reward as life being in his prospect?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

If, however, digestion is not going on, the mouth of the bile duct is closed, and in that case the bile is carried by the cystic duct to the gall bladder.
— from A Practical Physiology: A Text-Book for Higher Schools by Albert F. (Albert Franklin) Blaisdell

this should be the happiest day to both of us; do you remember at Geneva you told me I looked on the dark side, and you looked on the sunny; methinks we are changed, and I now gaze on the light, and you on the darkness."
— from The Weird of the Wentworths: A Tale of George IV's Time, Vol. 2 by Johannes Scotus

There is no poor-law in India, no guardians of the poor, no workhouses, excepting for the Europeans in the Presidency towns.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

she continued; then in a despairing tone, "My father is not guilty of this crime!"
— from The Count of Nideck adapted from the French of Erckmann-Chartrian by Erckmann-Chatrian

There is no getting over that!
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture: St. Luke by Alexander Maclaren

Could the contrary of this be proved, I should conclude, either that there is no God, or that he is a malevolent being.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 2 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

I never get off the point, Mr Stillford.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

There is no greater opposition to woman's equality in the State than there is in the Church, and this notwithstanding the fact that the Church and the pulpit are largely sustained by women.
— from The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton