Mr. Croll estimates that about sixty million years have elapsed since the Cambrian period, but this, judging from the small amount of organic change since the commencement of the Glacial epoch, appears a very short time for the many and great mutations of life, which have certainly occurred since the Cambrian formation; and the previous one hundred and forty million years can hardly be considered as sufficient for the development of the varied forms of life which already existed during the Cambrian period.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Mind you come.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Said my master, No, madam, that must not be; but, if it must be so, we'll have two tables; you and your nephew shall sit at one, and my wife and I at the other: and then see what a figure your unreasonable punctilio will make you cut.—She seemed irresolute, and he placed her at the table; the first course, which was fish, being brought in.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

But his wife was a sensible bird, and she knew that cobra’s eggs meant young cobras later on.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

He said he would split open a raw Irish potato and stick the quarter in between and keep it there all night, and next morning you couldn’t see no brass, and it wouldn’t feel greasy no more, and so anybody in town would take it in a minute, let alone a hair-ball.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

When my young child was sick I came to Bose to get from him a little sugar-candy.
— from Nil Darpan; or, The Indigo Planting Mirror, A Drama. Translated from the Bengali by a Native. by Dinabandhu Mitra

He was quick in catching the MANNER of the moment, and answered her somewhat in the style of the hero of a romance, 'Madam, you crown me with unfading laurels.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

But, pardon me, you cannot understand what I am saying.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

He left off dragging me by my beard and released me: ‘You are an officer,’ he said, ‘and I am an officer, if you can find a decent man to be your second send me your challenge.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"But I'd make you comfortable, give you what you ought to have—Europe, your friends, your carriage, everything."
— from Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller

"You don't seem overpleased with your good luck," said the duke; "give me your chance, and I shall know how to make better use of it."
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 65, No. 399, January 1849 by Various

You can add to mine more ; you can teach me wisdom.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

“And who says it's mere fatigue of body?” rejoined the other, “when every sense a man has is strained and stretched to breakin', his ear to the earth, and his eyes rangin' over the swell of the prairies, till his brain aches with the strong effort; for, mark ye, Choctaws isn't Pawnees: they 're on you with a swoop, just like a white squall in the summer time.”
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

"I should not propose this plan," continued his mother, "if I thought that when I say Noise , and you have to go out and come in again, it would put you out of humor, and make you cross or sullen.
— from Gentle Measures in the Management and Training of the Young Or, the Principles on Which a Firm Parental Authority May Be Established and Maintained, Without Violence or Anger, and the Right Development of the Moral and Mental Capacities Be Promoted by Methods in Harmony with the Structure and the Characteristics of the Juvenile Mind by Jacob Abbott

I'll make yours close to mine, so there won't be far to go with the water.
— from The Builders by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

"I beg you pardon, Miss Masters, you called me?"
— from Only an Incident by Grace Denio Litchfield

[140] and the girl who puts on an impossible tie and blouse will also wear an impeccable long white apron with an embroidered monogram you can see across the room.
— from Home Life in Germany by Sidgwick, Alfred, Mrs.

You may make your choice."
— from The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner