“Syracuse is in Sicily,” Kolya jerked out suddenly in explanation.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Law courts, indeed, have to decide on the best evidence attainable for the moment, because a judge's duty is to make law as well as to ascertain it, and (as a learned judge once said to me) few cases are worth spending much time over: the great thing is to have them decided on any acceptable principle, and got out of the way.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

She was, however, so just to me, as to manage the turning into money the little matters that remained to me after the debts and burial charges were allowed for, and, at my departure, put my whole fortune into my hands; which consisted of a very slender wardrobe, packed up in a very portable box, and eight guineas, with seventeen shillings in silver, stowed in a spring-pouch, which was a greater treasure than I ever had seen together, and which I could not conceive there was a possibility of running out; and indeed, I was so entirely taken up with the joy of seeing myself mistress of such an immence sum, that I gave very little attention to a world of good advice which was given me with it.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Phoenicia and Palestine were sometimes annexed to, and sometimes separated from, the jurisdiction of Syria.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

It belongs to the great class of judgments of sameness; and there is nothing more remarkable in making a judgment of sameness in the first person than in the second or the third.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The animal's strong, thick breath, which came out of her nostrils like two jets of steam in the evening air, blew on the workman's face, and he said: “You are not cold inside there!”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Jane often says, when she is here, 'I am sure, grandmama, you must have had very strong eyes to see as you do—and so much fine work as you have done too!—I only wish my eyes may last me as well.'”
— from Emma by Jane Austen

Some dinners which were given to me at French restaurants were, it seemed to me,—a poor judge of such matters, to be sure,—as sumptuous and as good, in dishes and wines, as I have found in Paris.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

To run all kinds of hazards, to jeopardize one's self, to rush into the jaws of death—these are too often identified with Valor, and in the profession of arms such rashness of conduct—what Shakespeare calls, "valor misbegot"—is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

[140] Letters and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe.
— from Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

So I said, Your honour may call this jest or sport, or what you please; but indeed, sir, it is not a jest that becomes the distance between a master and a servant.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But Jan only shook his head, wheeled round, and stood looking down into the street.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

President Jefferson ordered sufficient dark-blue cloth from Colonel Humphreys to make himself a coat, saying: "Homespun is become the spirit of the times.
— from The United States of America, Part 1: 1783-1830 by Edwin Erle Sparks

The very first day I dined at their house I met a jovial old Spaniard, a young Italian, who was settled in Egypt, and a very coquettish young Brazilian girl.
— from Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Brandes

Do you know, Palla, what Jack once said of us?
— from The Crimson Tide: A Novel by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Without joy or sadness he was bidding goodbye to Bombay, his city.
— from A Bed of Roses by Walter Lionel George

Below, one thousand Indians, Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Catawbas on a branch of the Arkansas within three days' journey of Saint Genevieve were crossing the river at Chickasaw Bluffs.
— from The Conquest: The True Story of Lewis and Clark by Eva Emery Dye

Justification of Synonymy.
— from A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus by William Edward Duellman

Tomaschek was then both in age (he was born on April 17, 1774) and in musical culture competent to form an independent judgment on such a subject.
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer