" Frode rejoined: "This affectation of thine of superfluous words, what exemplary lesson will it teach me?" Erik said: "A loyal few are a safer defence for a king than many traitors.
— from The Danish History, Books I-IX by Grammaticus Saxo

M. Emanuel stood a little apart from these; his countenance and eyes expressed strong choler; he held forth his hand with his tribune gesture.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

CHAPTER II Even people whose lives have been made various by learning, sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible, nay, on the sense that their past joys and sorrows are a real experience, when they are suddenly transported to a new land, where the beings around them know nothing of their history, and share none of their ideas—where their mother earth shows another lap, and human life has other forms than those on which their souls have been nourished.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

With this, one pint of salt was given; and this was the entire monthly allowance of a full grown slave, working constantly in the open field, from morning until night, every day in the month except Sunday, and living on a fraction more than a quarter of a pound of meat per day, and less than a peck of corn-meal per week.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

The Master said, 'The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right.' CHAP.
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

But time goes, it goes, it passes, it takes from me each second a little of myself for the annihilation of to-morrow.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Under these circumstances, deeming that there might be much exaggeration, Sybil at length resolved to advance, and in a few minutes those whom she had encountered were out of sight.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

A Jesuit sprinkled us with some holy water; it was horribly salt; a few drops of it fell into my eyes; the father perceived that my eyelids stirred a little; he put his hand upon my heart and felt it beat.
— from Candide by Voltaire

So far as this question is economical, it is outside the scope of this work; but conditions which may entail suffering and loss on the country by war are directly pertinent to it.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Mrs Erlynne ( Starts and looks at the servant with a puzzled expression on her face ).
— from Oscar Wilde by Leonard Cresswell Ingleby

Fairy kept strict account, and never exceeded the allotted number, but she made each speech as long as she possibly could, and rarely stopped until positively interrupted.
— from The Dorrance Domain by Carolyn Wells

We make each sentence a law unto itself and classify each word in the sentence according to what it does in its own sentence.
— from Plain English by Marian Wharton

There's something about a private car as makes everybody step around lively.
— from Susan Clegg and Her Love Affairs by Anne Warner

The gorgeous plate, gigantic candelabra, mighty ewers, shields and layers of silver and gold, which decorated his tables and sideboards, amazed the gaping crowd.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

"Acting Protector, yes, until the real one manifests," Edward said at last.
— from The Alembic Plot: A Terran Empire novel by Ann Wilson

This was the object of the improved system introduced in the year 1828; this was the object of those principles which have been maintained ever since; at least it was the principle on which I gave those laws my support, and on which I more than once asked your lordships to render this country dependent only on itself for subsistence.
— from Maxims and Opinions of Field-Marshal His Grace the Duke of Wellington, Selected From His Writings and Speeches During a Public Life of More Than Half a Century by Wellington, Arthur Wellesley, Duke of

You see I lie about a good deal by the fireside, and I don't want to talk, and so I lie with my eyes shut and listen.
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

There was—something more strange than Mr. Emberg suspected, and Larry's assignment was one destined to last for some time.
— from Larry Dexter's Great Search; Or, The Hunt for the Missing Millionaire by Howard Roger Garis