All that mankind has done, thought, gained, 35 or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I was living in Maine, prudently I think under an assumed name, and as the respectable, and, to my patients and customers, well-known Doctor Blank, I was scarcely liable to be recognized at any time or by any one as the man who had married so many wives, been in so many jails and prisons, and whose exploits had been detailed from time to time in the papers.
— from Seven Wives and Seven Prisons Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. A True Story by L. A. Abbott

This letter made me alter my purpose of stopping the India ships, lest it might prove injurious to the general and his companions in captivity, as also to our countrymen trading in the Mediterranean.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Robert Kerr

Slipping the letter into my pocket, I turned back to the house, and found Mrs. Hargis standing on the front porch.
— from The Gloved Hand by Burton Egbert Stevenson

To relieve my Husband from this Importunity, and conceal the Secret of our Marriage, which I had reason to know would not be long in my power in Town, it was resolved that I should retire into a remote Place in the Country, and converse under feigned Names by Letter.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

In the East he is known as Glooskap, god of the Passamaquoddies, and his marks are left in many places in the maritime provinces and Maine.
— from Myths and Legends of Our Own Land — Volume 04 : Tales of Puritan Land by Charles M. (Charles Montgomery) Skinner

Modern Mural Work We have but little important mural painting in this country.
— from Line and Form (1900) by Walter Crane

The agony of separation has tested the pure metal of character; and the fusion of two lives is made permanent in the frightful heat of awful pain.
— from Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps

I observed, as we went by, the lamp in my parlour in the farmhouse still burning.
— from Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad

Under this signature at one of them, in the collection of his letters in my possession, is the following note: “Yis was his mother’s surname, wlk he wrait in time of trubill.”
— from Life of John Knox, Fifth Edition, Vol. 1 of 2 Containing Illustrations of the History of the Reformation in Scotland by Thomas M'Crie