Neither is it recorded that the writings of those old comedians were suppressed, though the acting of them were forbid; and that Plato commended the reading of Aristophanes, the loosest of them all, to his royal scholar Dionysius, is commonly known, and may be excused, if holy Chrysostom, as is reported, nightly studied so much the same author and had the art to cleanse a scurrilous vehemence into the style of a rousing sermon.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

And yet I did not utter one groan, or angry expostulation; but in my heart I resolved nothing so seriously, as never to expose myself again to the like severities.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Art has an infinite range; nothing shifts so easily as taste and yet nothing so persistently avoids the directions in which it might find most satisfaction.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

"I remember now," she said, in a stronger voice.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

If there be such things as feelings at all, then so surely as relations between objects exist in rerum naturâ, so surely, and more surely, do feelings exist to which these relations are known .
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

This image was so horribly natural, that it is not surprising Emily should have mistaken it for the object it resembled, nor, since she had heard such an extraordinary account, concerning the disappearing of the late lady of the castle, and had such experience of the character of Montoni, that she should have believed this to be the murdered body of the lady Laurentini, and that he had been the contriver of her death.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"I remember now," she said slowly, "how you hesitated.
— from The Purchase Price; Or, The Cause of Compromise by Emerson Hough

Turning at an angle, which is slightly acute, it proceeds to flow to the west of north, along the northern base of the Kurdish range, from which it receives numerous small streams, till it ends finally in a large swamp or marsh, in lat.
— from The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6: Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by George Rawlinson

“We're just into Rhodesia now, sir,” said he, touching his cap.
— from The Last Frontier: The White Man's War for Civilisation in Africa by E. Alexander (Edward Alexander) Powell

Their doings occasioned, both in Cyprus and in Rhodes, no small stir and commotion, which lasted for a long while: but in the end, by the good offices of their friends and kinsfolk in both islands, 'twas so ordered as that after a certain term of exile Cimon returned with Iphigenia to Cyprus, and in like manner Lysimachus returned with Cassandra to Rhodes; and long and blithely thereafter lived they, each well contented with his own wife in his own land.
— from The Decameron, Volume II by Giovanni Boccaccio

Note 557 ( return ) [ The Nuncio says, "Se lo avesse fatto prima di ora, per il Re ne sarebbe stato meglio.
— from The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

When, however, we were in constant work, we lived as I have already described, and at an average expense of seven florins—five shillings and tenpence each weekly—and thus the individual outlay for lodging, food, and other necessaries, was, in round numbers, seven shillings and sixpence a week.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

"I remember now," said she, faintly, "I run in here with 'em."
— from Young Lucretia and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

Admitting that he had heard there were Inca ruins near Saavedra's station, Señor Pancorbo still begged us not to risk our lives by going to look for them.
— from Inca Land: Explorations in the Highlands of Peru by Hiram Bingham