The cast was made in Newgate, directly after he was taken down.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Mechanism can do so much; may it not do all?
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

The Eddaic series of the Volsung and Niflung lays terminates with the Lay of Hamdir; the one entitled Gunnar's Melody is no doubt a comparatively late composition; yet being written in the true ancient spirit of the North is well deserving of a place among the Eddaic poems.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

That were well done, said Balan, for I had never grace to depart from them since that I came hither, for here it happed me to slay a knight that kept this island, and since might I never depart, and no more should ye, brother, an ye might have slain me as ye have, and escaped yourself with the life.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

When I was by myself I never did anything about my case, I was hardly aware of it, but then, once there was someone representing me, everything was set for something to happen, I was always, without cease, waiting for you to do something, getting more and more tense, but you did nothing.
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

God shield you mean it not! 'daughter' and 'mother' So strive upon your pulse.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

To import the gold and silver which may be wanted into the countries which have no mines, is, no doubt a part of the business of foreign commerce.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

When, however, the neck of the sac has existed in the embrace of these constricting parts for a considerable period--when it suffers inflammation and undergoes chronic thickening--then, even though we liberate the stricture of the internal ring or the external, the neck of the sac will be found to maintain its narrow diameter, and to have become itself a real seat of stricture.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

Homais asked to be allowed to keep on his skull-cap, for fear of coryza; then, turning to his neighbour— “Madame is no doubt a little fatigued; one gets jolted so abominably in our ‘Hirondelle.’
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

My mother is now doubtless asleep, and as well as she ever was; Agnes is in her bedroom—certainly much distressed at the news which I am going"—— "
— from Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1. by Samuel Warren

For myself I never do a reckoning with the waiter.
— from Further Foolishness by Stephen Leacock

The horticultural superstitions about sowing and planting according to the age of the moon is, no doubt, a product of the fusion of the meteorological superstition and that of the old-world belief in Luna being the goddess of reproduction.
— from Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Benjamin Taylor

Knickerbocker's History of New York , though purely American in its matter, is not distinctly American in its method, which is akin to the mock heroic of Fielding and the irony of Swift in the Voyage to Lilliput .
— from Initial Studies in American Letters by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

"You will believe me," he went on quickly, "when I tell you that I really said nothing more?" "I never doubt a word of yours," was Ida's quiet reply.
— from The Unclassed by George Gissing

[362] 'I saw neither musical instruments, nor dancing, among the Oregon tribes.' Pickering's Races , in U. S. Ex.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

"May I not do as much as your pet ghostie did for you without being a miracle?
— from The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough

Under these Bentley agreements he was now writing, month by month, the first half of Oliver Twist , and, under his Chapman & Hall agreement, the last half of Pickwick , not even by a week in advance [122] of the printer with either; when a circumstance became known to him of which he thus wrote to me: "I heard half an hour ago, on authority which leaves me in no doubt about the matter (from the binder of Pickwick , in fact), that Macrone intends publishing a new issue of my Sketches in monthly parts of nearly the same size and in just the same form as the Pickwick Papers .
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster

To your mother, I no doubt appear like a more rational creature, but before Miss Bell I am utterly at a loss and dumbfoundered.
— from The Kentuckian in New-York; or, The Adventures of Three Southerns. Volume 1 (of 2) by William Alexander Caruthers