Had he not told her, yes, told her to make a list, and not to admit anyone who was not on that list?
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And Lancelot answered, 'Nay, the world, the world, All ear and eye, with such a stupid heart To interpret ear and eye, and such a tongue To blare its own interpretation—nay, Full ill then should I quit your brother's love, And your good father's kindness.'
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

" You can read it like a novel, to get an idea of what is going on.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

Roberts call’d up his Company, and desired they would hear Phip ’s Speech, (for so he was pleased to call the Letter,) and notwithstanding their vapouring, perswaded them of the Necessity of moving; for, says he, such brave Fellows cannot be supposed to be frightned at this News, yet that it were better to avoid dry Blows, which is the best that can be expected, if overtaken.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

And so, with the New-year, the signal is hoisted; for is not a National Assembly, and solemn deliverance there, at lowest a National Telegraph? Not only grain shall circulate, while there is grain, on highways or the Rhone-waters, over all that South-Eastern region,—where also if Monseigneur d'Artois saw good to break in from Turin, hot welcome might wait him; but whatsoever Province of France is straitened for grain, or vexed with a mutinous Parlement, unconstitutional plotters, Monarchic Clubs, or any other Patriot ailment,—can go and do likewise, or even do better.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The wind continuing light, but with frequent squalls, from north-northeast, the French, running before it, kept the puffs longer and neared the English rapidly, Suffren's intention to attack the rear being aided by Hughes's course.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

When we love pleasures, we love the living, and not the dead; we leave off burning with desire for those who can no longer burn for us.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

The visionary conquests of Hyrcania and India, which had so long amused, now tormented, the mind of Julian.
— 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

B. Both necessity and liberty are necessary to morality , this doctrine of necessity only alters our view of matter and so is at least innocent, 75 ; rewards and punishments imply the uniform influence of motives, and connexion of character and action: if necessity be denied, a man may commit any crime and be no worse for it, 76 ; liberty also essential to morality, 77 .
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

For myself, I have so completely lost all nerve, that I prefer a despotism, with the existing peace, to a state of war with the best hopes in the world.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For she old granny loved as much as most love a new toy.
— from Lays of Ancient Babyland to which are added Small Divers Histories not known to the Ancients by Richard Trott Fisher

His companions did likewise, and notwithstanding the absence of knives and forks they managed to eat and enjoy their share of the feast.
— from The Nameless Island: A Story of Some Modern Robinson Crusoes by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

But she was going to see father about it, sooner or later, and now that this has happened ...
— from Forward from Babylon by Louis Golding

He was never to see his native land again, never to see his father, never to reign Emperor of the French.
— from Harper's Round Table, September 10, 1895 by Various

“Jest as like as not they started away down toward the tip o’ the mainland, an’ hev been examinin’ every mile o’ the coast, bent on doin’ a clean job while they’re at it.
— from Eagles of the Sky; Or, With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes by Ambrose Newcomb

Following regular daily routes, this patrol not only detects fires and follows up campers or others who may have started them, (carelessly or otherwise), but in times of emergency carries the fire leader from one strategic point to another,—where as likely as not there are neither roads for him to go in his machine, nor even horse-back trails,—till he has shown the volunteer firemen how to trench and back-fire.
— from Unexplored! by Allen Chaffee

Whereas good luck, and not their own wisdom, justified them.
— from The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story by Ada Cambridge