I hope that you would rather take me away than let such an injustice be done.'" "My Pearl hits the nail on the head exactly," said Mr. Adair, with complacency.
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

The envelope was of paper as thick as bark; on the oblong yellow paper there was a huge monogram, and the letter smelt of agreeable scent.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

There was a quiet mirth about the little supper, which harmonised exactly with this tone of feeling, and at length the two gentlemen took their leave.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

True is it I have loved and love Guiscardo, and what while I live, which will be little, I shall love him, nor, if folk live after death, shall I ever leave loving him; but unto this it was not so much my feminine frailty that moved me as thy little solicitude to remarry me and his own worth.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"But can you not protect me?" asked the little sister.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The Stoic system made the consciousness of strength of mind the pivot on which all moral dispositions should turn; and although its disciples spoke of duties and even defined them very well, yet they placed the spring and proper determining principle of the will in an elevation of the mind above the lower springs of the senses, which owe their power only to weakness of mind.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

These two places stand out in my memory as the loveliest spots on earth.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

At last he takes his imaginary stand on what he feels to be a very low level of the supposed improvement of the general popular mind; and he says, Thus much, at the least, should be a possibility allowed by the circumstances of the people under any tolerable disposition of national interests;—and then he turns to look down on an actual condition in which care, and toil, and distress, render it impossible for a great proportion of the people to reach, or even approach, this his last and lowest conception of what the state of their minds ought to be.
— from An Essay on the Evils of Popular Ignorance by John Foster

Thy old arm is muscular, and thy leg steady on the water, and they seek those who, like thee, have been trained to the seas."
— from The Bravo: A Tale by James Fenimore Cooper

In the church of the Augustinian convent, the mass and the Lord's Supper were now both suspended.
— from Life of Luther by Julius Köstlin

I am able to see the ships at anchor for miles, and the landing stage for all the warships is just under my window.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis

Typefounders and composing-machine makers have filled the type cases of the printers of this country with Caslons that have been improved (!), recut, modified, adjusted to “lining” systems, made bold, disfigured, sawed-off and ill-treated generally; and as they bring out good copies of the original letter, it is to be hoped that, so far as possible, sale of the defective and offending type-faces and matrices will be discontinued.
— from The Art & Practice of Typography A Manual of American Printing, Including a Brief History up to the Twentieth Century, with Reproductions of the Work of Early Masters of the Craft, and a Practical Discussion and an Extensive Demonstration of the Modern Use of Type-faces and Methods of Arrangement by Edmund G. (Edmund Geiger) Gress