“I had told your excellency he is the most famous bandit we have had since the days of Mastrilla.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There were two particulars, nevertheless, which I thought then, and still think, might fairly be stated as characteristic of the intonation—as well adapted to convey some idea of its unearthly peculiarity.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Unless, therefore, some part of those duties was drawn back upon exportation, there was an end of the carrying trade; a trade so much favoured by the mercantile system.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Throughout the whole of that night Boldwood's dark form might have been seen walking about the hills and downs of Weatherbury like an unhappy Shade in the Mournful Fields by Acheron.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

“Thank you, Mr. Ferrenby, but I've got to get on.”
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

maldad f badness, wickedness; bad action, misdeed.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

And you don’t save anything by making me go without supper either, for I always eat twice as much for breakfast.”
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I had sufficient matter of reflection to prevent me from being weary on the road, employing myself in the recollection of that which had just happened; but this was neither my turn of mind nor the inclination of my heart.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A decree as musical vocalist must first be given to the latter.”
— from The Life of Ludwig van Beethoven, Volume I by Alexander Wheelock Thayer

I am making no personal appeal in my favour; but I do ask you to remember that when I say anything I mean it, and in my life on public questions I have never said anything which I do not believe in.
— from India for Indians Enlarged Edition by Chitta Ranjan Das

At the Spanish houses, as distinguished from the hotels mostly frequented by foreigners, Andalusian dishes form the chief part of the menu .
— from The Story of Seville by Walter M. (Walter Matthew) Gallichan

The temperate wind, made fragrant by thousands of acres of blue and yellow wild flowers, roared gloriously in their ears.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

The prints are made from the positive transparencies in just the same way that photographic prints are made from black and white photographic plates."
— from The Boy's Book of New Inventions by Harry E. (Harry Edward) Maule

While this lesson is intended primarily to bring clearly into your consciousness the fact that the "I" is a reality, separate and distinct from its Mental Tools, and while the control of the mental faculties by the Will forms a part of some of the future lessons, still, we think that this is a good place to point out to you the advantages arising from a realization of the true nature of the "I" and the relative aspect of the Mind.
— from A Series of Lessons in Raja Yoga by William Walker Atkinson

"A creed that is worth maintaining at all," he added, using an argument made familiar by the agents of bigotry everywhere, "is worth maintaining all the time....
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, March 1899 Volume LIV, No. 5, March 1899 by Various

But better still I love you, firs that crest The lonely hill above the moaning firth, Beside the path where bluebells gently nod.
— from The Dark Ages, and Other Poems by L.