Those noble envoys scoured the land To summon every Vánar band Then swiftly homeward at the head Of countless armaments they sped.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The city square has no enclosure, save the lamp-post in the middle: and no grass, but the weeds which spring up round its base.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

“None escape,” said the little pink sloth-creature.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn!
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“I am not exactly …” said the latter, turning rather red, “but if I do agree with the rest now, it’s simply not to break up—” “You are all like that!
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Depravity in such a place, depravity of the last aspirations, depravity of sodden and rotten corpses—and not even sparing the last moments of consciousness!
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

'Tween man and man they weigh not every stamp; Though light, take pieces for the figure's sake; You rather mine, being yours.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Later on, he had sold in little parcels, for gardens and market gardens, the lots of ground adjoining the corridor, and the proprietors of these lots on both sides thought they had a party wall before their eyes, and did not even suspect the long, paved ribbon winding between two walls amid their flower-beds and their orchards.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Although I was comparatively a poor man, and he a most wealthy one, I was never indebted to him a guinea in my life, nor ever solicited the loan of a guinea from him.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt

Tell all of them of my fancy, that I wish to live in their minds, not as a woman, but as a child as a child who erred through love, and who had not been taught to understand what duty was. Who said this, 'There is no earthly sacrifice that love will not sanctify.'" "Your father!"
— from Joshua Marvel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

'She knows not whether the man she once adored be living or dead, and she does not put to me one single question, does not even seek to learn where he dwells or what he does!
— from Wanda, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Ouida

He did not even see the last of that grand review of the 23d and 24th of May, 1865.
— from Tenting on the Plains; or, General Custer in Kansas and Texas by Elizabeth Bacon Custer

Nothing ever shows the least consideration for human creatures.
— from Amaryllis at the Fair by Richard Jefferies

He put on a bold air which did not exactly suit the look in his eyes.
— from The Son of His Mother by Clara Viebig

She went to a theatre that night, and later to a dance, but neither entertainment served to lift the deadening weight from her spirits.
— from The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell