"My reign is not yet over," (these words were legible in one of these inscriptions;) "you live, and my power is complete.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“My reign is not yet over,” (these words were legible in one of these inscriptions); “you live, and my power is complete.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“My reign is not yet over”—these words were legible in one of these inscriptions—“you live, and my power is complete.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

“I can neither come to see you nor receive your visit so long as my present inquietude continues.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I dare say you do,” said Lord Marney, filling his glass and looking very black; “you would like, I have no doubt, to see a fine gentleman-saint, like your friend Mr St Lys, at Marney, preaching in cottages, filling the people with discontent, lecturing me about low wages, soliciting plots of grounds for new churches, and inveigling Arabella into subscriptions to painted windows.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I read between the lines, and my perception ineradicably convinces me that you are honest and respectable.
— from Blix by Frank Norris

That quarter of the town exhibits an animated scene toward the witching hour; many lights and much population, illuminated coffee-houses, the stir of a large theatre, bands of music in the open air, and other sounds, most of them gay, and some festive.
— from Lothair by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Notaries, you know, never give receipts, therefore I could not give you one myself; I can only promise to leave among my papers, in case of death, a memorandum which will secure the restitution of the money into your hands.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

In literature, and more particularly in criticism, I can assure you I have met the very fellow of your quality, from literary rotten eggs whose opening came too late.
— from Select Conversations with an Uncle (Now Extinct) and Two Other Reminiscences by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Like all meat, pork is classed among the protein foods and builds body tissue.
— from The Business of Being a Housewife A Manual to Promote Household Efficiency and Economy by Jean Prescott Adams

In this age of literary and multifarious pilgriming, it cannot be unacceptable to propose an excursion to a mansion dignified by its associations with such a name.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Various

For use at close quarters it was also equally efficacious, for, wielded with both hands like a mediæval pike, it could resist with ease the sword-cuts of the enemy; indeed Polybius tells us that the legionary received the sword-cuts of the enemy with calm confidence on his pilum, which resisted them with ease, while the adversary’s weapon was cut and hacked into the mere semblance of a strigil, or skin-scraper.
— from British and Foreign Arms & Armour by Charles Henry Ashdown

Once the height of land at Methye portage is crossed on the portage, the whole country towards the west takes on a far better aspect, and the soil appears to be as good as could be desired.”
— from The Unexploited West A Compilation of all of the authentic information available at the present time as to the Natural Resources of the Unexploited Regions of Northern Canada by Ernest J. Chambers