who are going to marry your niece, as good as your daughter, to one of our best men.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Miss Clarissa, unfolding her arms for the first time, took the notes and glanced at them.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

King Sigurd improved the town of Konungahella so much, that there was not a greater town in Norway at the time, and he remained there long for the defence of the frontiers.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

Upon my word, you are nearly as great a donkey as the poor unfortunate imagined himself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

If we do not allow Germany to exchange products with Russia and so feed herself, she must inevitably compete with us for the produce of the New World.
— from The Economic Consequences of the Peace by John Maynard Keynes

It was nearly a gone case with me then—just touch-and-go for six weeks—the physicians giving me up and all that sort of thing.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

At first it seemed strange that the son of an obscure Livonian gentleman should propose marriage to a Countess Rostóva; but Berg’s chief characteristic was such a naïve and good natured egotism that the Rostóvs involuntarily came to think it would be a good thing, since he himself was so firmly convinced that it was good, indeed excellent.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Bwrw gwlaw neu eira, to rain or snow Bwsg, n. a grafting tool Bwt, n. a hole; a button hole; a dung cart; a basket placed in a stream to catch fish Bwtias, n. a pair of boots Bwth, n. a hut, a booth Bwthyn, n. a small cabin or hut Bwyd, n. meat, food, victuals Bwydiar, n. a voider Bwydiog, a. gluttonous Bwydlys, n. salad Bwydo, v. to feed, to give food Bwydwr, n. a feeder Bwyell, n. an axe, a hatchet Bwyellan, n. a little hatchet Bwyellgaib, n. a pick-axe Bwyellig, n. a small hatchet Bwystfil, n. a wild beast Bwystfilaidd, a. brutish, beastly Bwyta, v. to take food, to eat Bwytâd, n. an eating Bwytadwy, a. eatable, edible Bwytai, n. a greedy eater Bwytal, n. victuals, viands Bwytaol, a. eating Bwytawr, n. an eater Bwytëig, n. given to eating Bwytty, n. a pantry, buttery By, conj.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

Salem Rock nodded, and gave a grunt of satisfaction.
— from Mrs. Tree's Will by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

He lay there, suffering untold tortures—a man, and not a god—without hope or faith, passing through the sacrificial agony, and yet, hour after hour: “ Touché!
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

For he can neither be inriched by our services, nor impoverished by the want of them.—With regard to the worship of the heathen, St. Paul has these remarkable words; Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
— from Twenty-four Discourses On Some of the Important and Interesting Truths, Duties, and Institutions, of the Gospel, and the General Excellency of the Christian Religion; Calculated for the People of God of Every Communion, Particularly for the Benefit of Pious Families, and the Instruction of All in the Things Which Concern Their Salvation by Nathan Perkins

HE Which is not a genuine pride.
— from A Night in the Luxembourg by Remy de Gourmont

No matter where a person lives, he needs a good roof over his head, food to eat, clothes to wear, fuel, household necessities, and a surplus for emergencies.
— from A Rational Wages System Some Notes on the Method of Paying the Worker a Reward for Efficiency in Addition to Wages by Henry Atkinson

Not a gentleman, because he's a soldier— what does he do here?
— from The Squire: An Original Comedy in Three Acts by Arthur Wing Pinero

“It has the interest of a germ, a nucleus, a growing point.
— from Linnet: A Romance by Grant Allen

However, if you are all hypochondriacs, it is not a great benefit, I admit.
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy

But if they had not a genius for politics, if they had not a moderation in action singularly curious where superficial speech is so violent, if they had not a regard for law, such as no great people have ever evinced, and infinitely surpassing ours, the multiplicity of authorities in the American Constitution would long ago have brought it to a bad end.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

We have here, then, a remarkable piece of intelligence conveyed to us (incidentally indeed conveyed, but not therefore the less remarkable) concerning the nature and genius of prophecy.
— from The Works of Richard Hurd, Volume 5 (of 8) by Richard Hurd