Le livre papier, lorsque l'impression avec les techniques modernes sera meilleur marché, devrait devenir l'allié du livre électronique.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For, after all the murders of your eye, When, after millions slain, yourself shall die: When those fair suns shall set, as set they must, And all those tresses shall be laid in dust, This Lock, the Muse shall consecrate to fame, And 'midst the stars inscribe Belinda's name.
— from The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope

I love thee, my sweet chuck, and gin I go not with thee to that same Blue Boar thou mayst call me a heathen.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

One day the king came to visit his captive, and brought him the stolen sword that he might repair it; but Völund cleverly substituted another weapon so exactly like the magic sword as to deceive the king when he came again to claim it.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

As it is, you were some hundreds of yards away and can tell me even less than Miss Smith.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

After sending cavalry to drive Van Dorn away, my next order was to dispatch all the wagons we had, under proper escort, to collect and bring in all supplies of forage and food from a region of fifteen miles east and west of the road from our front back to Grand Junction, leaving two months' supplies for the families of those whose stores were taken.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

[Pouring some tea into a glass] Take a little tea, my son.
— from Uncle Vanya: Scenes from Country Life in Four Acts by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The man with the lantern then made signs to them to follow him, talking loud and quickly, and Beppo, they noticed, remained behind.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

The tranquillity which followed my anguish made me extremely alert, no less than my sense of expectation, my thirst for and my fear of danger.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

"You lied to me," she said in a low, even voice.
— from The Old Dominion by Mary Johnston

After quietly listening to my story and my determination to enter the Legion as a volunteer, he plainly told me that I was about to commit a great piece of folly and to sacrifice my health and life to no purpose.
— from The French in Algiers The Soldier of the Foreign Legion; and The Prisoners of Abd-el-Kader by Clemens Lamping

When the evidence from later times merely supports this, it will not be noticed.
— from Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

There were also some mountains of a porphyry with a brick-red basis, containing irregular, often lens-shaped, patches of compact feldspar, and crystals of feldspar, which latter to my surprise I find to be orthite.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin