"Well," said the priest, "if you will find a river that runs over white sand between high mountains, in those sands you will always see diamonds.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

He obtained his first commission 3rd Oct., 1807, and in the same year accompanied the expedition to Gothenburg.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

Angkúba ra ang lab-ang sa ímung pinintálan, Fill in the spots you missed painting.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

For the first time in the sixty years, that the Providential era of Revolutions had been open, Paris, the city of intelligence, seemed not to understand!
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

I wish she were so in the sense you mean; but let me now explain to you what I have never explained before, that her father is a descendant in the male line of one of the oldest Norman houses, like a good many others who lead obscure agricultural lives in our villages, and are dubbed 'sons of the soil.'" He soon retired to bed; and the next morning, feeling exceedingly unwell, he remained in his room pondering.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

I found that sketch in my portfolio the other day, touched it up, and kept it to show you.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

It is to save you from any such dangers that I earnestly press upon you the deliberate choice and immediate adoption of a course of life in which the systematic, conscientious improvement of your mind should serve as an efficacious preservation from all dangerously exciting occupations.
— from The Young Lady's Mentor A Guide to the Formation of Character. In a Series of Letters to Her Unknown Friends by Anonymous

Ivanhoe was laid out some distance below at the present Ivanhoe bridge in the same year.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

In that same year, the wives of Bishop Dionysius Carabet and Gregory Wortabet were received to the communion of the Church in Beirût, being the first spiritual fruits of Women's Work for Women in modern Syria.
— from The Women of the Arabs by Henry Harris Jessup

Late in the spring you may add to the other vegetables two cucumbers, pared and sliced, and the whitest part or heart of a lettuce, boiled together; then well-drained, and put into the soup with the peas and asparagus.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

He waited for me in the side yard until I come down.
— from Swatty: A Story of Real Boys by Ellis Parker Butler

When he knows how to sympathize with men in their sorrows, yea, even in their sins—knowing that each man fights a hard fight against many odds.
— from The Builders: A Story and Study of Masonry by Joseph Fort Newton

In the sixth year of his marriage Baxter was brought before the magistrates at Brentford, for holding a conventicle at Acton, and was sentenced by them to be imprisoned in Clerkenwell Gaol.
— from Character by Samuel Smiles

Therefore only do what is your duty, and let God take care how He is to support you and provide for you sufficiently.
— from Martin Luther's Large Catechism, translated by Bente and Dau by Martin Luther

He laid his hand on her head, and said, solemnly, "Ellen, this is the secret you have promised grandmother never to tell.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs