"While you are my children," she exclaimed, in a loud terrible voice, "your father is dead.
— from Little Folks (September 1884) A Magazine for the Young by Various

Cum mundus extra se sit, et mente captus sit, et nesciat se languere, ut medelam adhibeat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Rudo en el lenguaje, de una rudeza natural, escribió «El Gaucho Martín Fierro,» completado más tarde con «La Vuelta de Martín Fierro,» poemas que son un exponente nítido del espíritu criollo, ameno para la charla, que suele matizar con sentencias e imágenes tanto más poéticas cuanto no pertenecen al género metafórico, de que tanto se abusa en los tiempos que corren.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

If there is to be parallelism, it is easy to prove by mathematical logic that the causation in physical and psychical matters must be of the same sort, and it is impossible that mnemic causation should exist in psychology but not in physics.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

'Respectability, an excellent connexion for me, common sense, everything!' 'To be sure, your sister has always shown herself a devoted sister,' said Bradley, willing to sustain himself on even that low ground of hope.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

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— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"If you are!" exclaimed Miss Compton, suddenly embracing her, "I am a more guilty creature than I ever thought to be!"
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

At last Parliament took the matter up and in 1868 an act was passed, making compulsory some "efficient means of communication between the passenger and the servants of the company in charge" of railroad trains.
— from Notes on Railroad Accidents by Charles Francis Adams

‘Sir,’ exclaimed the true Mr. Clark, ‘Sir, every individual would do well to remember, when summoned to such a contest as this, the curse denounced against Meroz for remaining in neutrality when the battle raged in Israel.
— from Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Hugh Miller

These he deposited on the counter without order or arrangement, muttering, as he did so, that the old man could sort 'em out in the morning to suit himself.
— from The Garies and Their Friends by Frank J. Webb

"A man can still enjoy himself when he is fifty; but I grant you that at twenty-four it's a long time to wait for your pleasure.
— from The Wizard's Son, Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

"Lord, grant it may come speedily," ejaculated the young man, kneeling beside the apparently lifeless form of her he loved so well.
— from Elsie's children by Martha Finley