“The Government may pay for elephants, but they belong to us mahouts.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

“Are you going to cross my path for ever, damn you!”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The King shall have my service; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The colony assemblies, if they were not very favourably disposed (and unless more skilfully managed than they ever have been hitherto, they are not very likely to be so), might still find many pretences for evading or rejecting the most reasonable requisitions of parliament.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Miss Podsnap faintly ejaculated: when Mrs Lammle took the prompt-book.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Ŝi volas kuiri tre bonan manĝon, tamen ŝi havas tro multe por fari en la kuirejo, ĉar ŝi ne havas servistinon.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

But the Fox had so many plans for escape he could not decide which one to try first.
— from The Aesop for Children With pictures by Milo Winter by Aesop

lettres 21 & 22, p. 478-556,) with this difference, that the abuses of superstition are mildly, perhaps faintly, exposed by the learned Italian, and peevishly magnified by the Dutch minister.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

A visit from the President of the United States for instance, would necessitate the most punctiliously formal etiquette, no matter how close a friend of the family he may always have been.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

We had been so busily engaged in endeavouring to repair our boat, that night came suddenly down on us before we were aware of its approach, and we had no time to make preparations for encamping.
— from The Young Llanero: A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela by William Henry Giles Kingston

This “reasoning together” with God, respecting our past and present character and conduct, is the first step to be taken by any one who would make preparation for eternity.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

Our houses are not mere places for eating and sleeping, like the houses of the ancients.
— from The Unseen World, and Other Essays by John Fiske

God so ordered it, in His infinite wisdom and perfect grace, that there should be assembled in the city of Jerusalem, at the exact moment, people from every nation on the face of the whole earth, in order that—even should the twelve apostles fail to carry out their commission—all might hear, in the very dialect in which their mothers first whispered into their infant ears the accents of a mother's love, the precious tidings of God's salvation.
— from The Great Commission. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. IV by Charles Henry Mackintosh

At first their grief at seeing the state of their homes overpowered every other feeling; but soon recollecting that they had escaped from slavery, they did their best to express their gratitude to those who had rescued them, and forthwith began to make preparations for erecting a shelter for themselves, till they could build a house like the one destroyed.
— from Mark Seaworth by William Henry Giles Kingston

It is that which we get when the object is at the distance most propitious for exact visual discrimination of its details.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

Some twenty minutes later, after a lively bout of signalling by the wireless operators aboard the Japanese ships, it became certain that the smoke seen must proceed from enemy ships, and all our dispositions were made for dealing with them, the instructions of the armoured division being to close slowly in upon the enemy from the westward, while the battleships rushed down at full speed from the north, and the protected cruisers did the same from the south.
— from Under the Ensign of the Rising Sun: A Story of the Russo-Japanese War by Harry Collingwood

Andorra tobacco products, furniture Angola crude oil, diamonds, refined petroleum products, coffee, sisal, fish and fish products, timber, cotton Anguilla lobster, fish, livestock, salt, concrete blocks, rum Antigua and Barbuda petroleum products, bedding, handicrafts, electronic components, transport equipment, food and live animals Argentina soybeans and derivatives, petroleum and gas, vehicles, corn, wheat Armenia pig iron, unwrought copper, nonferrous metals, diamonds, mineral products, foodstuffs, energy Aruba live animals and animal products, art and collectibles, machinery and electrical equipment, transport equipment Australia coal, iron ore, gold, meat, wool, alumina, wheat, machinery and transport equipment Austria machinery and equipment, motor vehicles and parts, paper and paperboard, metal goods, chemicals, iron and steel, textiles, foodstuffs Azerbaijan oil and gas 90%, machinery, cotton, foodstuffs Bahamas, The mineral products and salt, animal products, rum, chemicals, fruit and vegetables Bahrain petroleum and petroleum products, aluminum, textiles Bangladesh garments, jute and jute goods, leather, frozen fish and seafood Barbados manufactures, sugar and molasses, rum, other foods and beverages, chemicals, electrical components
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

New Englanders are so many propositions from Euclid, full of right angles and straight lines, but easy living and the dressmaker’s art combine to turn the corners gently.
— from Mae Madden by Mary Murdoch Mason