And should I have been like this on this night, and at this moment, sitting with you, could I have talked like this, could I have moved like this, could I have looked at you and at the world like this, if I had really been the murderer of my father, when the very thought of having accidentally killed Grigory gave me no peace all night—not from fear—oh, not simply from fear of your punishment!
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Ni les élèves ni les parents ne regardent plus loin; ni, par conséquent, moi non plus."
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

I see plainly, Sir, by your looks, (or as the case happened) my father would say—that you do not heartily subscribe to this opinion of mine,—which, to those, he would add, who have not carefully sifted it to the bottom,—I own has an air more of fancy than of solid reasoning in it;—and yet, my dear Sir, if I may presume to know your character, I am morally assured, I should hazard little in stating a case to you, not as a party in the dispute,—but as a judge, and trusting my appeal upon it to your own good sense and candid disquisition in this matter;—you are a person free from as many narrow prejudices of education as most men;—and, if I may presume to penetrate farther into you,—of a liberality of genius above bearing down an opinion, merely because it wants friends.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I had often seen my noble patron annotating ancient volumes, and eagerly searching amongst dusty family manuscripts.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

5. Caesar prīncipēs monēbit nē proelium committant.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

± dwi-mor (-mer) n. phantom, ghost, illusion , Æ. + dwimorlic illusory, unreal .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

what I have to offer you is fatigue, danger, struggle, and death; the chill of the cold night in the free air, and heat under the burning sun; no lodgings, no munitions, no provisions, but forced marches, dangerous watchposts, and the continual struggle with the bayonet against batteries.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The monk of the Isles d'Or, on whose manuscript Nostradamus professed to rely, is now considered to be a purely fictitious person, an anagram on a friend's name.
— from On Love by Stendhal

" The arrangement proposed was so unquestionably the right and the proper one, that I could make no possible objection to it.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

One day, seeing him at some distance in the street, coming towards me, I began to prepare my cane for action, and walked in the shadow of a porter, that he might not perceive me soon enough to make his escape; but, in the very instant I had lifted up the instrument of correction, I found Tim Cropdale metamorphosed into a miserable blind wretch, feeling his way with a long stick from post to post, and rolling about two bald unlighted orbs instead of eyes.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In the application of common law doctrine to extemporaneous or other oral deliveries, the question of implied contract between the speaker and his auditors enters, and the trend of court decisions is that a hearer who has purchased or obtained a ticket, may make notes for his own use but may not publish them for profit.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

Perhaps it may be just as well for us that we are not yet educated up to so fine a point as that, and that consequently the mineral we are speaking of does not yet find a place in the British Pharmacopœia, but is left to exhibit its apparently more natural properties in the arts and manufactures.
— from Asbestos, Its production and use With some account of the asbestos mines of Canada by Robert H. Jones

This would not be extraordinary; for how many Protestants by their travels abroad not only make no progress towards Catholicity, but are made its violent enemies.
— from Life of Father Ignatius of St. Paul, Passionist (The Hon. & Rev. George Spencer). by Pius a Sp. Sancto (Pius a Spiritu Sancto)

Besides, Cartier in the voyage which he made never passed the great fall of St. Louis, and made no discoveries north or south of the river St. Lawrence.
— from Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 03 by Samuel de Champlain

It may now, perhaps, be expected that before we conclude this moral enquiry, we should exactly separate the one from the other; should mark the precise boundaries of virtues and talents, vices and defects; and should explain the reason and origin of that distinction.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The telegram still remains the only solid thing with which we have to deal, and we must not permit our attention to wander away from it.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

W. N. 122 Copying of fraudulent material not punishable in equity, 258 1906 Musical copyright act 6 Edw.
— from Copyright: Its History and Its Law by R. R. (Richard Rogers) Bowker

At length, after repeated, peevish outbursts of despotic ill-temper and such expressions as this: “Is there, then, no remedy but that I must needs put my neck into the yoke?” the king gave orders for his marriage preparations.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The function of the story is to supply the child with racial experiences that will enrich his own more narrow personal experience.
— from The Tree-Dwellers by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

On Christmas morning we were wed, Ah me the morn, the luckless morn; Now poppies burn along the corn, Would I were dead.
— from Poems, 1908-1919 by John Drinkwater