This apartment was the family bedroom, parlor, library and kitchen, all in one.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

LANGUAGE and KNOWLEDGE are indissolubly connected; they are interdependent.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

A bachelor who meets them owes them at least a kiss; and if he does not take more he is only a blockhead.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

He was professor of Oriental languages at Königsberg, and issued a number of translations of Hebrew works: one of the "Sefer Yezirah" (1642); one of the "Passover Haggadah" (1644); he published also his "Libra Vertatis" (Fraenker, 1698); and one of the earliest translations of Jewish prayers, under the title, "Hochfeyerliche Solentäten, Gebete und Collecten Anstalt der Opfer, nebst andern Ceremonien
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

The reality of his suffering crushed all hopes in Levin and Kitty and in the sick man himself, leaving no doubt, no memory even of past hopes.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Course Ted's no longer a kid, and I wouldn't want him to, uh, get mixed up and everything.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

When he and his brother Tom were children they lived with a nurse (Goody Lawrence) at Kingsland, and in after life Samuel refers to his habit of shooting with bow and arrow in the fields around that place.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Meanwhile Hippocrates got the young Hieronymus entirely into his hands: and at first fired his imagination by telling him of Hannibal’s marches and pitched battles in Italy; and afterwards by repeating to him that no one had a better right to the government of all Siceliots than he; in the first place as the son of Nereis daughter of Pyrrhus, the only man whom all Siceliots alike had accepted deliberately and with full assent as their leader and king; and in the second place in virtue of his grandfather Hiero’s sovereign rights.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

The road seemed to lead into the sky, for, so far as the eye could discern, it still mounted up and up, until finally it was lost in the cloud which, since early evening, had been resting on the summit of Mount Gut, like a kite awaiting its prey.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

It is no cleaner than a kitchen; it reeks like a kitchen; and if you mean to cook your dinner, you must expect to soil your hands; the real art is in getting them clean again, and therein lies the whole morality of our epoch.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

Butler gave to the British Museum an incomplete copy of the Letters and kept another incomplete copy which I gave to the British Museum.
— from The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge A Catalogue and a Commentary by Henry Festing Jones

Yet, in the [Pg 134] afternoon, one Sir John Macdonald, an Irish officer in the French service who had come over with the Prince, came where Lochiel, and Keppoch and I were talking together, and railed a great deal about our retreat.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume III. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

I turned my eyes thither immediately (continues the marquis); but though I endeavoured to look as keenly as I could, I beheld nothing but the rays of the sun, which streamed through the panes of the window into the chamber.
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

"Who might have lain, as Harold lay, A King, and in state enow— Or slept with his peers, like Roland In the Straits of Roncesvaux."
— from The Friendly Club and Other Portraits by Francis Parsons

Only I made up my mind not to let anybody know about it till after the pig should be grown up, and then how the family would be delighted with my "thoughtful and generous act!"
— from The Adventures of Jimmy Brown by W. L. (William Livingston) Alden

"The Maybloom is cutting the water like a knife, and I want you to come up on deck and look at her."
— from Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences by St. George Rathborne

Mendelssohn's philosophy, if he had an original system, has long since passed into oblivion; Maimon's will be studied as long as Spinoza, Leibnitz, and Kant are in vogue.
— from The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. (Jacob Salmon) Raisin

North of the Carpathians lies Galicia, a Polish country, with Lemberg and Krakow as its capitals, and in the eastern part the Ruthenians, a race identical with the Russians.
— from Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard