I found he expressly admitted that “interest, my own happiness, is a manifest obligation,” and that “Reasonable Self-love” [is “one of the two chief or superior principles in the nature of man”].
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

‘Show me one, and try,’ rejoined Squeers.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

the MSS. have {ebdomekonta mneas} only, and this reading seems to have existed as early as the second century of our era: nevertheless the correction is required, not only by the facts of the case, but also by comparison with ch. 95.]
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

What a wonderful song, she thought—everything was wonderful to-night, most of all this romantic scene in the den, with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

I will carry it into no blood but my own; and the reproach shall rest alone on me.' 'One word more, Rose.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

He had often seen him about his marshes, or along the river’s side, or in the village, or upon the heath.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

It is certain as a matter of fact, though it might not be very easy to account for it as a matter of argument, that repetitions, stock phrases, identity of scheme and form, which are apt to be felt as disagreeable in reading, are far less irksome, and even have a certain attraction, in matter orally delivered.
— from The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) by George Saintsbury

He went steadily through the academic course, which to attain the degree of Master of Arts, then required seven years' residence.
— from Life of John Milton by Richard Garnett

I will carry it into no blood but my own; and the reproach shall rest alone on me.’
— from Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress. Illustrated by Charles Dickens

His counsel ask us whether it be a fault in a judge to have a profound knowledge of the law, which will enable him to decide promptly any question that may occur; and the respondent said, on Fries’s trial, that “he had an opinion in point of law as to every case which could be brought before the Court, or else he was not fit to sit there.”
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

It had been accompanied by an unexpected display of military organisation among the revolted sepoys.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

It was important they should not suspect me of allegiance to Ranjoor Singh.
— from Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders by Talbot Mundy

He was a little, dry, thin man, of a turn rather sentimental than jocose; a memory well stored with fag-ends of psalms, and hymns which, being less familiar than the psalms to the ears of the villagers, were more than suspected to be his own composition; often gave a poetic and semi-religious colouring to his conversation, which accorded rather with his dignity in the church, than his post at the Spotted Dog.
— from Eugene Aram — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron