But you’ll not talk of what I tell you; and my mind is so eternally secluded in itself, it is tempting at last to turn it out to another.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Onely of thus much, I see evident Scripture, to perswade men, that there is neither the word, nor the thing of Purgatory, neither in this, nor any other text; nor any thing that can prove a necessity of a place for the Soule without the Body; neither for the Soule of Lazarus during the four days he was dead; nor for the Soules of them which the Romane Church pretend to be tormented now in Purgatory.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“Mother couldn’t have meant it,” said Evie, still frowning.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

`And that shal been an huge quantitee, Thus shal I seyn, but, lest it folk aspyde, This may be sent by no wight but by me; I shal eek shewen him, if pees bityde, 1390 What frendes that ich have on every syde Toward the court, to doon the wrathe pace Of Priamus, and doon him stonde in grace.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Motto, In scelus exurgo, sceleris discrimina purgo, is written on a Scroll round the Sword.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

But in spite of this unlabored method he takes care somewhere in the essay to seize upon a phrase that shall bring home to us the essence of his theme and to make it salient enough so as not to escape us.
— from Selections from the Prose Works of Matthew Arnold by Matthew Arnold

[346] “Mr. Wyatt, now handle this matter in such earnest sort with the Emperor, as the king, who by your fair words hath conceived as certain to find assured friendship therein, be not deceived.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. III by James Anthony Froude

Mangling, imprisonment, starvation, every species of torture, may be inflicted upon him, [the slave,] and he has no redress.
— from The Slavery Question by John Lawrence

When I observed a large amount of filth adhering to their boots and shoes as they carried the pumice from the vat to the press, I thought of the worms, insects, and dust, which were ground up and incorporated with the mass, I sometimes expressed surprise.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott

I think only one horse was badly hurt, but at no military tournament have I seen artillery move in such excellent style.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

Besides that, if not above it as an incentive, his hope to satisfy himself upon the vexed question of the mission of the mysterious man was still upon him strong as in the beginning; we might indeed say even stronger, because of a belief that now quickly, before the sun went down, the man himself would make all known by public proclamation.
— from Ben-Hur: A tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace

It is a very curious circumstance, showing how sometimes records of the most trivial and insignificant things come down to us from ancient times in a clear and certain form, while all that is really important to know is involved in doubt and obscurity—that the household expense-book of Anne at Middleham is still extant, showing all the little items of expense incurred for Richard's son, while all is dispute and uncertainty in respect to the great political
— from Richard III Makers of History by Jacob Abbott

May I say each street appears in Philadelphia.
— from Warren Commission (09 of 26): Hearings Vol. IX (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission