Guppy becomes mysteriously and tenderly eloquent—"it is necessary that I should impress upon your mind once more that circumstances over which I have no control have made a melancholy alteration in my most cherished plans and in that unrequited image which I formerly mentioned to you as a friend.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Pondering over this matter many a time in my own mind, and recognizing, from the example not only of the ancients but of the moderns as well, that the names of very many architects, sculptors, and painters, both old and modern, together with innumerable most beautiful works wrought by them, are going on being forgotten and destroyed little by little, and in such wise, in truth, that nothing can be foretold for them but a certain and wellnigh immediate death; and wishing to defend them as much as in me lies from this second death, and to preserve them as long as may be possible in the memory of the living; and having spent much time in seeking them out and used the greatest diligence
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

And as we have this consolation springing from no very visionary hope or wild fancy, I entreat you, senora, to form new resolutions in your better mind, as I mean to do in mine, preparing yourself to look forward to happier fortunes; for I swear to you by the faith of a gentleman and a Christian not to desert you until I see you in possession of Don Fernando, and if I cannot by words induce him to recognise his obligation to you, in that case to avail myself of the right which my rank as a gentleman gives me, and with just cause challenge him on account of the injury he has done you, not regarding my own wrongs, which I shall leave to Heaven to avenge, while I on earth devote myself to yours.” Cardenio’s words completed the astonishment of Dorothea, and not knowing how to return thanks for such an offer, she attempted to kiss his feet; but Cardenio would not permit it, and the licentiate replied for both, commended the sound reasoning of Cardenio, and lastly, begged, advised, and urged them to come with him to his village, where they might furnish themselves with what they needed, and take measures to discover Don Fernando, or restore Dorothea to her parents, or do what seemed to them most advisable.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

, "had attained the heights of wisdom," was asked by Socrates, what virtue was, and upon his answering quickly and glibly, that virtue was a different thing in boy and old man, and in man and woman, and in magistrate and private person, and in master and servant, "Capital," said Socrates, "you were asked about one virtue, but you 146 have raised up a whole swarm of them," 321 conjecturing not amiss that the man named many because he knew not one.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

O my dear Sophy, you are a woman of sense; if you marry a man, as is most probable you will, of less capacity than yourself, make frequent trials of his temper before marriage, and see whether he can bear to submit to such a superiority.—Promise me, Sophy, you will take this advice; for you will hereafter find its importance.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Well, then, mistress and I mean to get married to-morrow morning.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

And here you are, ordering me about in my home as though it were your own.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Melldithiad, n. a malediction Melldithio, v. to curse Melldithiol, a. blasphemous Melldithwr, n. a curser Melli, Mellni, n. blight Mellt, n. lightnings Mellten, n. lightning Mellteniad, n. flashing lightning Melltenu, v. to flash lightning Melltigaid, a. accursed, cursed Melltigedig, a. cursed, accursed Melltog, a. full of lightning Mên, n. an active principle Men, n. a wain, a cart Menaid, n. a cart load Menestr, n. a cup-bearer Menestru, v. to serve, to wait Meni, n. carting, cartage Meniad, n. a carrying in a cart Mensaer, n. a cartwright Mentyn, n. a thin small lip Menu, v. to impress Menw, n. intellect, mind Menwedig, a. intellectual; blessed Menwi, v. to make intellectual Menwin, a. intelligent Menwol, a. intelligent Menwyd, n. intellect; blessedness Menwydig, a. intelligent; blessed Menwydol, a. intelligent Menwydus, a. intelligent Menwyn, n. talent, skill Menyd, adv. to the place where Menyn, n. a small spot Menynu, v. imprint, to dot Mer, n. what is dropped off or parted; a particle; what is still; what is received Mêr, n. marrow Meraidd, a. like marrow Merch, n. a girl, a woman, a daughter Merchaidd, a. feminine, female Mercheta, v. to go a-wenching Merchetwr, n. a wencher Merchin, a. towering, rising Merchyn, n. a little horse Mercher, n. Mercury.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Of late, however, most scientific men, and indeed many purely empirical inquirers (using the word empirical in its strict sense) have come to the conclusion that though the mode in which they were composed was not always identical, all lodes, including auriferous formations, were primarily derived from mineral-impregnated waters which deposited their contents in fissures caused either by the cooling of the earth's crust or by volcanic agency.
— from Getting Gold: A Practical Treatise for Prospectors, Miners and Students by J. C. F. (Joseph Colin Francis) Johnson

I only thought of myself, and I made you grieve.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

I will sacrifice all, everything to keep you from running into certain death, will you even then threaten to leave me alone in my misery, and to beguile Ann to desert me likewise?"
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07 by Georg Ebers

First here, then there, single men and then groups of men will fall into line—not indeed with my poor faulty hesitating suggestions—but with a great and comprehensive plan wrought out by many minds and in many tongues.
— from A Modern Utopia by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I've come a great many miles, and I must see her."
— from The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill

I heard him speak at a meeting of a literary society over which he presided for some time and which had enrolled many able men amongst its members.
— from Hall Caine, the Man and the Novelist by C. Fred (Charles Frederick) Kenyon

Ka-bib-on-okka soon discovered his mistake, and it made him furious.
— from American Indian Fairy Tales by W. T. (William Trowbridge) Larned