The Lady however recovering her self, after a little space, said to her Husband with a Sigh, My Dear, Misfortunes never come Single .
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

There must be a reason why the room is called by that name!" "Christine," said the young man.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

Yet could she neither have any reverence paid to her, nor could she escape without some danger of being slain herself.
— from The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem by Flavius Josephus

Accordingly, hardly was the last dish come when the despairful outcry of the hunted damsel began to be heard of all, whereat each of the company marvelled and enquired what was to do, but none could say; whereupon all started to their feet and looking what this might be, they saw the woeful damsel and the knight and the dogs; nor was it long ere they were all there among them.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

All the domestic animals of the neighbouring countries, such as oxen, pigs, fowls, and ducks, are found here, but in small numbers.
— from Travels in the Central Parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos (Vol. 1 of 2) During the Years 1858, 1859, and 1860 by Henri Mouhot

For we have to be in a highly sensitized condition before we can get to that subtle point where life and the image mix, and so really perceive the work at all; whereas we can command the response to a lesser work which does not call so finely on the full breadth and depth of our spiritual resources.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

To Improve One's Accent If you want to improve your accent, nothing can so help you as going to the theater abroad until your ears literally absorb the sounds!
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

"Now, Cainy, shoulder your two, and off.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The conception of social forces was never challenged so long as it was merely an everyday commonplace.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

But nevertheless, could she have shown her love by any great deed, there was nothing which Lady Mason would not have done for Mrs. Orme.
— from Orley Farm by Anthony Trollope

It is a beautiful, high-toned, moving picture of noble Catholic struggle, suffering, and death, drawn evidently with infinite pains and after historic study, and with that highest art which is nearest nature.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Heaven-towering walls of basalt, naked cliffs, sheer inaccessible, dome-shaped, and truncated
— from Told by the Death's Head: A Romantic Tale by Mór Jókai

And she never could see why her father should not have kept the money.
— from Grim Tales by E. (Edith) Nesbit

I could talk long about a similar phenomenon in the case of our migratory and singing birds: how many exquisite species—notably those two glorious songsters, the Orphean Warbler and Hippolais, which delight our ears everywhere on the other side of the Channel—follow our nightingales, blackcaps, and warblers northward every spring almost to the Straits of Dover: but dare not cross, simply because they have been, as it were, created since the gulf was opened, and have never learnt from their parents how to fly over it.
— from Health and Education by Charles Kingsley

'Then you are Robert Chartres, and you did not commit suicide.'
— from A Practical Novelist by John Davidson

Geography ::Honduras Location: Central America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Guatemala and Nicaragua and bordering the Gulf of Fonseca (North Pacific Ocean), between El Salvador and Nicaragua Geographic coordinates: 15 00 N, 86 30 W Map references: Central America and the Caribbean Area: total: 112,090 sq km country comparison to the world: 102 land: 111,890 sq km water: 200 sq km Area - comparative: slightly larger than Tennessee Land boundaries: total: 1,520 km border countries: Guatemala 256 km, El Salvador 342 km, Nicaragua 922 km Coastline: 820 km Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm contiguous zone: 24 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm continental shelf: natural extension of territory or to 200 nm Climate: subtropical in lowlands, temperate in mountains Terrain: mostly mountains in interior, narrow coastal plains Elevation extremes: lowest point: Caribbean Sea 0 m highest point: Cerro Las Minas 2,870 m Natural resources: timber, gold, silver, copper, lead, zinc, iron ore, antimony, coal, fish, hydropower Land use: arable land: 9.53% permanent crops: 3.21% other: 87.26% (2005) Irrigated land: 800 sq km (2003) Total renewable water resources: 95.9 cu km (2000)
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

It is evident, madam, that you have not closely studied the career of Rudyard—er—Peters.
— from Peeps at People Being Certain Papers from the Writings of Anne Warrington Witherup by John Kendrick Bangs