" In all probability this grief was spared to Jane, for even after her arrival at Winchester she spoke and wrote as if recovery was hopeful; and I fancy that her relations were by no means aware that the end was so near.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Yes, there is plenty good enough material for a republic in the most degraded people that ever existed—even the Russians; plenty of manhood in them—even in the Germans—if one could but force it out of its timid and suspicious privacy, to overthrow and trample in the mud any throne that ever was set up and any nobility that ever supported it.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

[6] Not to use superlatives, it would seem that the American colonial governors and St. Clair might have presented to Braddock the difficulties of the Virginia route as compared with the Pennsylvania route early enough to have induced the latter to make Carlisle his base for the Ohio campaign; but there is no telling now where the blunder was first made; a writer in Gentleman’s Magazine affirmed that the expedition was “sent to Virginia instead of Pennsylvania , to their insuperable disadvantage, merely to answer the lucerative views of a friend of the ministry, to whose share the remit
— from Braddock's Road and Three Relative Papers by Archer Butler Hulbert

What I have to say is this; that I did not know Mr. Oldfield was dead; that I did not know that he had any name but Oldfield; that I had no knowledge of his connection with Donald Lindsay, of Cloverlea; that this is the first time I have been made aware that there ever was such a person as Donald Lindsay; that I never before saw the bill of exchange which you showed me just now."
— from A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh

At last we entered, and having got as far as the hall, promenaded in couples, I giving my arm to the Emperor, who said thou to me, and bade me reply in the same way.
— from Recollections of the Private Life of Napoleon — Complete by Louis Constant Wairy

"After, however, the fire which was occasioned through thy instrumentality, though in no respect by thy fault, the people murmured, and taxed the Emperor with seeking to destroy his capital in league with a foreign sorcerer, meaning thee.
— from The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales by Richard Garnett

The stone was of white marble, and the two eagles were sculptured on it.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus

But the Dame pays more attention to the Epistles which she does not, than to those which she does, receive.
— from Private Letters of Edward Gibbon (1753-1794) Volume 2 (of 2) by Edward Gibbon

Especially since the revival of Ptolemy's works in the fifteenth century, learned men asserted that the earth was spherical in shape, and they even calculated its circumference, erring only by two or three thousand miles.
— from A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. by Carlton J. H. (Carlton Joseph Huntley) Hayes

They pressed upon me coffee and bread, and I heard them repeating over and over again to one another my assurances that the enemy was still far away and would never get as far as Portogruaro.
— from With British Guns in Italy: A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Dalton, Hugh Dalton, Baron

And when I expressed my admiration to the engineer who showed us round, he answered— "A mere question of economy!
— from The Conquest of Bread by Kropotkin, Petr Alekseevich, kniaz