" To this Penelope said, "As long, sir, as you will sit here and talk to me, I can have no desire to go to bed.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

I am not at all ashamed about the name of the novel, having been guilty of no insult toward your handwriting; the diphthong I always saw, but knowing how fond you were of adding a vowel wherever you could, I attributed it to that alone, and the knowledge of the truth does the book no service; the only merit it could have was in the name of Caleb, which has an honest, unpretending sound, but in C[oe]lebs there is pedantry and affectation.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

Every master in Chancery has had a reference out of it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Minucius had neither the same success nor the same energy of mind in conducting his business; for after he had pitched his camp at no great distance from the enemy, without having experienced any considerable loss, he kept himself through fear within the camp.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Still, still so dead asleep, the very noise And motion that we make in carrying him Stirs not a leaf in all the living tree.
— from Life Is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

( b. ) Cicerō, quī mīlitēs in castrīs continuisset, quīnque cohortēs frūmentātum mittit , 6, 36, 1, though Cicero had kept his men in camp, he sends five cohorts foraging .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

This is one of the fundamental differences between physics and psychology; and to make it clear has been the main purpose of this lecture.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

How much it costs him to do no worse How much more insupportable and painful an immortal life How uncertain duration these accidental conveniences are Humble out of pride Husbands hate their wives only because they themselves do wrong
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

When I was fairly engulphed in her hot and throbbing cunt, she began her exquisite casse-noisette pressures, which talent she possessed in the greatest perfection; then bending down to me I clasped her in my arms, and glued my lips to hers in a loving kiss and tongue embrace.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

As a first and most important cause, he placed the fact that neither our national nor (here in New York) our state capital coincides with our metropolis.
— from Worldly Ways & Byways by Eliot Gregory

when I look round me I can hardly credit my eyes. . . .
— from A Bride of the Plains by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

'Should Mr. Iglesias call here, dear Liz,' she said to me, 'I should not refuse to see him.
— from The Far Horizon by Lucas Malet

“Well,” said Mrs. Grimsby, “if you had only come in and asked me, I could have told you all about it, for I fitted out my husband for California all myself.
— from Hesper, the Home-Spirit: A simple story of household labor and love by Lizzie Doten

"You don't have to tell me," I could hear him saying.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long

The gaunt, careworn features and dusty figures were made plain by this quaint light at the dawning, but it dressed the skin of the men in corpselike hues and made the tangled limbs appear pulseless and dead.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

An excellent medicine in chlorosis, hysteria, and atonic amenorrhœa.—
— from Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the Arts, Manufactures, Professions, and Trades..., Sixth Edition, Volume II by Richard Vine Tuson

"I cannot but try " means "I cannot help trying."
— from Word Study and English Grammar A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses by Frederick W. (Frederick William) Hamilton

"There is a good deal that is very sad in my part of it, Miss Compton," replied Mr. Willoughby, "but at this moment I can hardly regret it, as herein I hope to show some excuse for my long negligence respecting my poor girl.
— from The Widow Barnaby. Vol. 3 (of 3) by Frances Milton Trollope

During the region of nightness my intellectual cranium has been entangled in thoughtful attitude for my beloved consort.
— from The New Century Standard Letter-Writer Business, Family and Social Correspondence, Love-Letters, Etiquette, Synonyms, Legal Forms, Etc. by Alfred B. Chambers