But this constable seemed to be lost for ever to the force.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

With the wild Indians of North America, according to Mr. Washington Matthews, nodding and shaking the head have been learnt from Europeans, and are not naturally employed.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

* You cannot imagine to what an extent the most intelligent Gentiles may be brought to a state of unconscious naivete under conditions of self-deceit, and how easy it is to discourage them by the least failure, even the stopping of applause, or to bring them into a state of servile subjection for the sake of regaining it.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

If they are old, dependent upon you for support, then can you still better prove to them that the tender care they lavished upon you, when you depended upon their love for everything, was not lost, but was good seed sown upon fruitful ground.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

This however is impossible, and therefore let us make a law as nearly like this as we can—that he who loves his life too well shall be in no danger for the remainder of his days, but shall live for ever under the stigma of cowardice.
— from Laws by Plato

“Where you like,” said Leon, forcing Emma into the cab.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

"I was just going to write something extraordinarily fine; now it will be lost for ever!"
— from Poppy: The Story of a South African Girl by Cynthia Stockley

It will not be found necessary to use a separate label for each of the data indicated above, and a single label may be made to combine many of them, as, except for the specific names of the insects themselves (which should always be on the lowermost label), most other words will bear abbreviation, especially localities and dates.
— from Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Charles V. (Charles Valentine) Riley

Fool, wilt thou live for ever?
— from Songs Before Sunrise by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glaubens , Mainz 1867.—Oswald, Die Lehre von der Heiligung , § 5, 3rd ed., Paderborn 1885.—B. Bartmann, St. Paulus und St. Jakobus und die Rechtfertigung , Freiburg 1897.—L. Galey, La Foi et les Oeuvres , Montauban 1902.—W. Liese, Der heilsnotwendige Glaube, sein Begriff und Inhalt , Freiburg 1902.—Card.
— from Grace, Actual and Habitual: A Dogmatic Treatise by Joseph Pohle

they looked forlorn enough, thin and pale, almost all of them having had the chills or some fever through the [22] summer, from which they were just recovering, a great part of the regiment being still in hospital.
— from The Campaign of the Forty-fifth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia "The Cadet Regiment" by Charles Eustis Hubbard

—The European woodcock usually lays four eggs, but as many as six and even eight have been found in a nest, probably the product of two birds.
— from Life Histories of North American Shore Birds, Part 1 (of 2) by Arthur Cleveland Bent

"Be quick about it," snarled the general, leaning forward eagerly.
— from Defenders of Democracy Contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy by Militia of Mercy (U.S.). Gift Book Committee

She came to Württemberg when the country was at a low financial ebb.
— from A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg by Hay, Marie, Hon. (Agnes Blanche Marie)

Of the thousands who are forced into the paths of learning, few ever care to know, by what pioneer, or with what labour, their way was cast up for them.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown