The idea!” “Certainly your mother can imagine things—and suppose things!
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

I, my dear sir, have nothing over me but my conscience, I act according to my conscience, and my conscience is satisfied, so I don’t care a straw for the opinions of this one and that.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

“Oh, no, monsieur,” replied Monte Cristo; “I do not thus betray my enjoyments to the vulgar.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

"Take you a Frenchman apiece," said he to his captains, "and leave me the Spaniards: when I haul down my colours, I expect you to do the same, and not till then.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

Suicide, that mysterious act of violence against the unknown which may contain, in a measure, the death of the soul, was impossible to Jean Valjean.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The path was so serpentine, that at no moment could I trace its course for more than two or three paces in advance.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

It was from her that all the milch cows in the world were obtained.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

There is much moral bullying, owing to the general lack of moral courage in the public-school atmosphere.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The queen, seeing the story and likewise her sovantry at an end, rose to her feet and put off the crown, which she set laughingly on Dioneo's head, saying, "It is time, Dioneo, that thou prove awhile what manner charge it is to have ladies to govern and guide; be thou, then, king and rule on such wise that, in the end, we may have reason to give ourselves joy of thy governance."
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

But in truth our helm was in right good trim, and the master chuckled in merry sort as he ran the San Felipe close alongside of the Bonaventura , their bulwarks just touching.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

"If Ogden really wishes to break that vase," said Mrs. Crocker in a detached voice, "let me ring for the butler to bring him a hammer."
— from Piccadilly Jim by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

"No, but I have yet to see that Miss Castlemaine is repelled by him."
— from The Man Who Rose Again by Joseph Hocking

He had stopped at a shop at Zell to buy a jäger’s knife, in place of the one he had left behind him at Monte Carlo, in the card-sharper’s body.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

Mr. Carew ingeniously confessed his, but my lord disguised both his name and country; so that having accidentally met with a mendicant of the greatest note in England, his lordship thought fit to treat him in the manner aforesaid, which he would not have done to every common vagrant.—However, to satisfy himself that this was the famous and true Bampfylde Moore Carew, for many impostors had usurped his name, he sent for Captain Atkins, a gentleman of his acquaintance in the neighbourhood, who went to school with Mr. Carew at Tiverton.
— from The Surprising Adventures of Bampfylde Moore Carew, King of the Beggars Containing his Life, a Dictionary of the Cant Language, and many Entertaining Particulars of that Extraordinary Man by Unknown

I silently pass over the maritime cities in the kingdom of Egypt, such as Damietta, Rosetta, Alexandria, &c. where the Lord knows how many nations come for a thousand sorts of grain, seeds, cloth, and an infinite number of other things, calculated for the conveniency and the delight of men.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

In that case, the atmospheric pressure acting on the surface of the mercury C in the cistern, would be balanced by the combined forces of the weight of the mercurial column sustained in the tube, and the elasticity of the gas or vapour in the upper part of it.
— from The Steam Engine Explained and Illustrated (Seventh Edition) With an Account of Its Invention and Progressive Improvement, and Its Application to Navigation and Railways; Including Also a Memoir of Watt by Dionysius Lardner

And may the record show that I am, Mr. Chairman, if you please, the treasurer of the Seattle Bar Association, and, at the request of that association and at the request of this gentleman, I am undertaking to represent him at this hearing inasmuch as he is financially unable to obtain other counsel.
— from Investigation of Communist Activities in Seattle, Wash., Area, Hearings, Part 1 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities

Mr. Montenero came into the room while we were speaking, and I presented Lord Mowbray to him.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth