And now, I mournfully confess, In rhyming I show laziness.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

When Don Quixote saw it, rendered in such lifelike style that one would have said Christ was speaking and Paul answering, "This," he said, "was in his time the greatest enemy that the Church of God our Lord had, and the greatest champion it will ever have; a knight-errant in life, a steadfast saint in death, an untiring labourer in the Lord's vineyard, a teacher of the Gentiles, whose school was heaven, and whose instructor and master was Jesus Christ himself."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Back to my cot will I repair If Sítá live to greet me there, [pg 299]
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

Of course, nobody suspects the causal logic of the fact: the maceration of the flesh is interpreted religiously, it seems like an end in itself, whereas it is no more than a means of bringing about that morbid state of indigestion which is known as repentance (the "fixed idea" of sin, the hypnotising of the hen by-means of the chalk-line "sin").
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I suggested she should keep me in as when she flogged me, nay, indeed, she should flog me in reality if she liked.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

I remained in St. Louis till the 17th of December, 1857, assisting in collecting for the bank, and in controlling all matters which came from the New York and San Francisco branches.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

Be thou asham'd that I have took upon me Such an immodest raiment- if shame live In a disguise of love.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

I reckon I shook like a leaf, and I didn’t know hardly what to do.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Thus baffled in his design of crossing at Sulphur Springs, and finding that point and Waterloo Bridge, four miles above, held in force by the Union troops, and well knowing that Pope’s strength was increasing daily by reinforcements from the Army of the Potomac, Lee now determined to push Jackson completely around the right of the Union army, turning it by a circuitous but rapid march, and throw him on the railroad in its rear, its sole line of supply, and to follow up the movement with the other wing under Longstreet.
— from The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Volume 2 (of 2) by Hazard Stevens

The rapid brook of fresh water, which ran at the south side of the town, took its rise in several lakes in the land above.
— from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

All that is readable in sectarian literature, the best Pur[=a]nas, the Divine Song, the sectarian R[=a]m[=a]yana, come from Vishnuism.
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

I am always ready to be useful to you when and where it may be, and I repeat it, all I want in return is some little sincere affection from you .'
— from Queen Victoria by Lytton Strachey

"Without agreeing to the first," I replied, "I shall let it rest, because our natures are too different, and we do not understand each other anyway.
— from The Bride of Dreams by Frederik van Eeden

"This Goethe," he wrote to Fritz Jacobi, "of whom from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof and from the going down [Pg 242] thereof to its rising I should like to speak and stammer and rhapsodise with you ...
— from The Youth of Goethe by Peter Hume Brown