But you have one quality which is very rare in a German, Mr. Von Bork: you are a sportsman and you will bear me no ill-will when you realize that you, who have outwitted so many other people, have at last been outwitted yourself.
— from His Last Bow: An Epilogue of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

My note finished and sent off to the post, I made myself very busy in unpacking and arranging; and I sent Charley to bed in good time and told her I should want her no more that night.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The party, for some time, appeared inattentive to my voice; but, at length, were so much alarmed, that they quitted the apartment; and, having heard Montoni order his servants to search it, I returned to my prison, which was very distant from this part of the passage.'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Mas vale buen amigo que pariente primo —
— 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 beautiful touch of Death, soothing and benumbing a few moments, for reasons, Myself discharging my excrementitious body to be burn'd, or render'd to powder, or buried, My real body doubtless left to me for other spheres, My voided body nothing more to me, returning to the purifications, further offices, eternal uses of the earth.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

I really would do my very best.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

but what is lighter than a bubble—I must lie at the mercy of Honour, or some such capricious principle—Strait security for two of the most valuable blessings!—my property and myself.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

An unaccountable, and what I am compelled to consider a magnetic, sympathy of soul for soul, seemed to rivet, not only my vision, but my whole powers of thought and feeling, upon the admirable object before me.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

When, on that March day of 1867, the negroes of the District first voted, the success of that election inspired Congress with confidence to pass the proposition for the Fifteenth Amendment, and the different States to ratify it, until it has become a fixed fact that black men all over the nation not only may vote but sit in legislative assemblies and constitutional conventions.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

For since in man all good is defective, the law made visible by an example still humbles my pride, my standard being furnished by a man whose imperfections, whatever they may be, are not known to me as my own are, and who therefore appears to me in a more favourable light.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Thus these evolutionists, like many others in this country and in England, find a modus vivendi between evolution and theism.
— from Facts and fancies in modern science Studies of the relations of science to prevalent speculations and religious belief by Dawson, John William, Sir

And the result, as she sat by me in the darkened room, was summed up, with a woman’s headlong impetuosity of judgment, in the words that I have just written—“I don’t like your Mrs. Van Brandt!”
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins

For at that [96] time, after a year’s preparation, they undertook an excursion to Washington, as a compliment to President Andrew Jackson, who was soon to give place to Martin Van Buren.
— from The Old First Massachusetts Coast Artillery in War and Peace by Frederick Morse Cutler

rinces of Central India were much vexed by the Pindarees, organized bands of marauders—like the free companies of the Middle Ages—who found harbourage in the territories of the Mahrattas, and, when not employed in the civil wars of those chiefs, plundered on their own account all over the Deccan.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Since it was impossible to learn anything definite from Durban or his master, Beatrice was striving to possess her soul in peace until seven o'clock: at that hour she intended to meet Vivian by the Witches' Oak, and there ask him bluntly what he had said or done to make stepfather so furious.
— from The Black Patch by Fergus Hume

I tried to say something to you before I left for my vacation, but the words wouldn’t come.
— from Hungry Hearts by Anzia Yezierska

Mr. Verne bowed in a respectful manner, and taking off his gold-rimmed spectacles motioned the young man to a seat.
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

“The occurrence is most vexatious, but I won't worry myself any more about it now.
— from Chetwynd Calverley New Edition, 1877 by William Harrison Ainsworth

He read a form of prayer and a stranger preached from Matthew v; but a poor sermon.
— from A Journey to America in 1834 by Robert Heywood

I most vnfainedly beseech your Lordshippe to make some reseruation of your wrongs.
— from All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare