'But, Lizzie, I came expressly to join you.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

So they lived I cannot exactly tell you how many days after this.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

528.] Judgment holds in me a magisterial seat; at least it carefully endeavours to make it so: it leaves my appetites to take their own course, hatred and friendship, nay, even that I bear to myself, without change or corruption; if it cannot reform the other parts according to its own model, at least it suffers not itself to be corrupted by them, but plays its game apart.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

El Cafetal , revista oficial mensuel dedicada exclusivamente a la industria cafetera en todos su ramos.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As when in the depth of air adverse winds rise in battle with equal spirit and strength; not they, not clouds nor sea, yield one to another; long the battle is doubtful; all stands locked in counterpoise: even thus clash the ranks of Troy and ranks of Latium, foot fast on foot, and man crowded up on man.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

A terrible vista is opened by the cry of Lot, ‘I cannot escape to the mountain lest some evil take me!’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But when you want to use them in actual life, either in the composition of songs or in the correct performance of airs or metres composed already, which latter is called education, then the difficulty begins, and the good artist is needed.
— from Symposium by Plato

Sir Leicester is content enough that the ironmaster should feel that there is no hurry there; there, in that ancient house, rooted in that quiet park, where the ivy and the moss have had time to mature, and the gnarled and warted elms and the umbrageous oaks stand deep in the fern and leaves of a hundred years; and where the sun-dial on the terrace has dumbly recorded for centuries that time which was as much the property of every Dedlock—while he lasted—as the house and lands.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The next operation is, the working ; and the most difficult part of this is, to ascertain when, precisely, the liquor is cool enough to bear it.
— from The English Housekeeper: Or, Manual of Domestic Management Containing advice on the conduct of household affairs and practical instructions concerning the store-room, the pantry, the larder, the kitchen, the cellar, the dairy; the whole being intended for the use of young ladies who undertake the superintendence of their own housekeeping by Anne Cobbett

“But since we will need foreign labor for many years and the possibility of replacing them is very limited I cannot exploit them on a short-term policy nor can I allow wasting of their working capacity.”
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 5 by Various

Everywhere, it may be said, in the centuries subsequent to the religious revolution of the sixteenth century, religion became less directly social in its action; and if the action and interference of what is now called the State in every department of social life is continually extending, this may not inaptly be said to be due to the fact that it has largely taken up the direct social work and direction from which the Church found herself perhaps compelled to recede, in order to concentrate her efforts more intensely on the promotion of more purely and strictly religious influences.
— from The Eve of the Reformation Studies in the Religious Life and Thought of the English people in the Period Preceding the Rejection of the Roman jurisdiction by Henry VIII by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Although nominally at the head of the Clock Company, he left its control entirely to his partners, who, by injudicious management, brought it at length to the verge of bankruptcy.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe

We may live in confident expectation that the mute stones will yet be taught to speak, and that we shall learn how the empire of the Hittites was founded and preserved, not from the annals of their enemies, but from their own lips.
— from The Hittites: The story of a Forgotten Empire by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce

He took it for granted that this was what she wanted, and of course it was what she wanted, only—and it was here that the confused regrets arose in remembering Boston—the letters received there, where she was so much of a centre and so little of a satellite, had seemed, in some way, lacking in certain elements that Boston supplied, but that Merriston House, she more and more distinctly saw, would never offer.
— from Franklin Kane by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

Under such circumstances, the delicacy of a young lady is certainly entitled to a manly forbearance.
— from The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

At length I could endure the torment of dreaming no more, and started to my feet, went to the helm, and got the raft once more before the wind.
— from Under the Meteor Flag: Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood