‘You’d soon have thrown up all this rowdyism that you indulge in now, and you’d have settled down to quiet, steady money-making, because you have little education; and here you’d have stayed just like your father before you.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"The house of Karnstein," he said, "has been long extinct: a hundred years at least.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

xxi.; R.O. "The lady Elizabeth arrived here yesterday, clad completely in white, surrounded by a great assemblage of servants of the Queen, besides her own people.
— from Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and literary dealing mainly with subjects relating to the XVIth and XVIIth centuries by J. M. (Jean Mary) Stone

Lay down some rules for the cutting of books, placing of plates, binding of covers, and advertisements, style of lettering, etc., and have your binder follow them.
— from A Library Primer by John Cotton Dana

"Your manner that last evening at Herst, your greeting of to-day, have led me to hope again.
— from Molly Bawn by Duchess

We should certainly be better informed as to the precedents of Vico's criterion if we knew more of his studies preparatory to the De antiquissima, and if in general we had more literary evidence about his youth.
— from The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico by Benedetto Croce

you know what lovely eyes and hair you have.”
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

Come up the ladder, Esau, and hold your torch so that I can see.
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans