“For us,” was the answer, “nothing but good, since we are with the Most Christian king; and your Holiness will not have aught of evil to suffer.”
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 4 by François Guizot

Dr. G. Birdwood however, at Bombay, in the years following 1859, took up the subject with great zeal and intelligence, procuring numerous specimens of the Sumálí trees and products; and his monograph of the genus Boswellia in the Linnaean Transactions (read April 1869), to which this note is very greatly indebted, is a most interesting paper, and may be looked on, I believe, as embodying the most correct knowledge as yet attainable.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa

At the same time, feelings of a higher and more complex kind, as yet experienced only by the cultivated few, will become general; and there will be a corresponding development of the emotional language into more involved forms.
— from Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library by Herbert Spencer

This is a case where the interest is of the most complete kind, and yet where there is no work of art at all.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer

Mary Crawford knows all your falsehood and crime, but she, like myself, will keep silence when you are gone.
— from Shoulder-Straps: A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 by Henry Morford

To my company— KATHERINE Ay, your's, or mine, or any one's.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 4 Poems and Plays by Charles Lamb