This genealogy was found by John Andrew in a meadow, which he had near the pole-arch, under the olive-tree, as you go to Narsay: where, as he was making cast up some ditches, the diggers with their mattocks struck against a great brazen tomb, and unmeasurably long, for they could never find the end thereof, by reason that it entered too far within the sluices of Vienne.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

You find me cold, unfeeling, selfish, don't you?
— from Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw

If there is no inner congruity and communion between two fields, science cannot survey them both; at best in tracing the structure of things presented in one of them, it may come upon some detail which may offer a basis or lodgment for the entire fabric of the other, which will thus be explained ab extra ; as the children of Abraham might give an explanation for Zeus and his progeny, treating them as a phenomenon in the benighted minds of some of Japhet's children.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

His head might come up some day above ground in a landslip with his hand pointing.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

All we have to do is to go into the telepathic state, via the Venusian formula; then, at the same time, each must concentrate upon some definite mental quality, some particular characteristic of his own mind, which he or she wishes to find on Sanus.
— from The Devolutionist and the Emancipatrix by Homer Eon Flint

But please don’t mention the Pendennises to my cousin, unless she does so first.
— from The Red Symbol by John Ironside

This may cause us serious delay [Pg 280] in getting the gold out; it may cost us billions of dollars before we get through."
— from The Bungalow Boys Along the Yukon by John Henry Goldfrap

[Bohdan HUBSKYY]; Regions of Ukraine [Viktor YANUKOVYCH]; Socialist Party of Ukraine or SPU [Oleksandr MOROZ, chairman]; United Social Democratic Party [Leonid KRAVCHUK]; Working Ukraine-Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency