"She succeeded in making us poor," Rebecca said with an air of angelical patience; "but how can I be angry with a woman who has given me one of the best husbands in the world?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"Certainly; make the experiment," said my uncle, pleased with my enthusiasm.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Indeed, he was still devoted to the study of chemistry, and had a laboratory of his own, in which he used to shut himself up all day long, greatly to the annoyance of his mother, who had set her heart on his standing for Parliament and had a vague idea that a chemist was a person who made up prescriptions.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

It may, however, be stated that the most usual practice is to display the shield alone in the centre of the star (Fig. 772).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

The Duke of Exeter is as magnanimous as Agamemnon; and a man that I love and honour with my soul, and my heart, and my duty, and my live, and my living, and my uttermost power.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

It was necessary that the High Court should meet under penalty of high treason .
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

FOOTNOTES: [250] This is intrinsically not probable, and is the more improbable because in Q1 Hamlet's letter to Ophelia (which must have been written before the action of the play begins) is signed 'Thine ever the most unhappy Prince Hamlet .'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Wherefore, most upright Particulo (a name destined to live in my writings, so long as a value shall continue to be set upon the Latin literature), if you like not my genius, at least approve my brevity, which has the more just claim to be commended, seeing how wearisome Poets usually are.
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

I select types of combination that nature offers very frequently, but by no means uniformly, and I select them solely for their convenience in helping me to my ulterior purpose of characterizing pragmatism.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Under a system of transitory military domination, it was more expedient to exhaust a people at once by the most unsparing plunder than to be content with a tribute periodically paid, but necessarily uncertain in the vicissitudes of years.
— from History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper

For, if your holiness calls me universal pope, you deny that you are yourself what I should be confessed to be universally.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

46 General William C. Westmoreland, ComUSMACV (Photo courtesy Office of the Chief of Staff, U. S. Army) Lieutenant General Robert E. Cushman, Jr., CG, III MAF (USMC Photo A190016)
— from The Battle for Khe Sanh by Moyers S. Shore

The reproductive organs themselves are not diseased; and the diseases, from which animals in menageries usually perish, are not those which in any way affect their fertility.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 2 by Charles Darwin

Meanwhile the French made another attempt upon the court of Madrid, loudly complaining of the taking their two men of war by Boscawen’s squadron, before any declaration of war was made, representing it as a most unjustifiable proceeding, which threatened a dissolution of all faith amongst nations.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He could even appreciate Bentley, and had written, in his copy of Bentley's Milton, " Pulchre, bene, recte ," against some of the happier emendations in the great critic's most unsuccessful performance.
— from Alexander Pope by Leslie Stephen

Mr. Upex paused.
— from The Passionate Elopement by Compton MacKenzie

Every family, at any rate was represented, while the rector looked on with the tolerant smile that the clergy keep for the wonders of science, and just at the last moment up panted our policeman on his bicycle, and pulling out his notebook and pencil for the aviators' names (Heaven knows why), set upon the proceedings the seal of authority.
— from A Boswell of Baghdad; With Diversions by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas

Second: To maneuver the enemy out of his position by moving upon Pardubitz; the occupation of which place would be a serious menace to his communications.
— from The Campaign of Königgrätz A Study of the Austro-Prussian Conflict in the Light of the American Civil War by Arthur L. (Arthur Lockwood) Wagner

She has no occasion to marry for money; of course my estate is, as I dare say you know, entailed, and will go to my cousin, Jack Hawtrey, who is a sporting parson down in Somersetshire—a good fellow, with a large family; but there will be plenty for her from her mother, besides my unentailed property.
— from Dorothy's Double. Volume 1 (of 3) by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty