I may assume that there is a second to be mentioned?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

"Thou art very simple, Sancho," said Don Quixote; "God, look you, gave that great knight of the Red Cross to Spain as her patron saint and protector, especially in those hard struggles the Spaniards had with the Moors; and therefore they invoke and call upon him as their defender in all their battles; and in these he has been many a time seen beating down, trampling under foot, destroying and slaughtering the Hagarene squadrons in the sight of all; of which fact I could give thee many examples recorded in truthful Spanish histories."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Any ordinary man will find that the story’s strength is in its middle, and that there is apparently no way to transfer it to the close, where of course it ought to be.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

And he pressed me again to throw it away."
— from The Monkey's Paw The Lady of the Barge and Others, Part 2. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Him thou might'st look upon, and say, fair youth, Then turn to me, and think that I am old.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Hápit mugalun ang tubà, There is almost a [ 252 ] gallon of toddy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

2 make a temporary trail in an otherwise unpenetrable thicket.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

And his principal doctrines were, that all things were infinite, and were interchanged with one another; and that the universe was a vacuum, and full of bodies; also that the worlds were produced by bodies falling into the vacuum, and becoming entangled with one another; and that the nature of the stars originated in motion, according to their increase; also, that the sun is borne round in a [389] greater circle around the moon; that the earth is carried on revolving round the centre; and that its figure resembles a drum; he was the first philosopher who spoke of atoms as principles.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

My duty discharged, I sat down on the bed, facing Pechorin, and said: ‘Listen here, Grigori Aleksandrovich, you must admit that this is a bad business.’
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

They don't seem to mind admitting that there is a class above theirs.
— from Lady Betty Across the Water by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

These shades of manner are typical, though instinctive, and therefore are difficult to reproduce artificially.
— from Mrs. Piper & the Society for Psychical Research by Michael Sage

"But these objections being aunswered all well as might bee, and faithfull promise being made and taken that if any word were thought personall, it should be presently put out, the stage was suffered to stand, and the scaffolds somewhat enlarged against the Saturday following.
— from Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries by W. F. (William Francis) Dawson

Every day after that I paid them one cautious visit, and by waiting from five to fifteen minutes, standing motionless among the thistles, I always succeeded in getting them to show themselves for a few moments.
— from The Naturalist in La Plata by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

and take me across to the isle as fast as you can row."
— from The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 4 of 6 by Eugène Sue

To keep alive and justify such feelings in the public mind, however, the king must himself possess various accomplishments, bodily and mental, and that too in a superior degree.
— from History of Greece, Volume 02 (of 12) by George Grote

If a man is to occupy the bathroom, she must see that the hook for a razor strop is not missing, and that there is a mirror by which he can see to shave both at night and by daylight.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The banks at Newcastle are steep and high, but about four miles above the town is a place called Newburn, where was a meadow near the river, and a convenient place to cross.
— from Charles I Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

"I don't know how you feel about it," began Tom, after he had picked up his comic paper once more and then thrown it aside in disgust.
— from The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets by Edward Stratemeyer