The other boys were flying around him now, flouting, scornful; and as he staggered about the deck striking up at them impotently, his mind was no longer with them; it was slouching in the playing fields of long ago, or being sent up for good, or watching the wall-game from a famous wall.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

At the same time was condemned William Letton, a monk of great age, in the county of Suffolk, who was burned at Norwich for speaking against an idol that was carried in procession; and for asserting, that the sacrament should be administered in both kinds.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

In like manner, the memorable words of history, and the proverbs of nations, consist usually of a natural fact, selected as a picture or parable of a moral truth.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Then I need give my directions only to you," said Lydgate, not feeling surprised at a little peculiarity in Bulstrode.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Without much regard for truth or probability, they invented names for skeletons, and actions for names.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Society could not feed such an artificial passion, nor the schools transmit an arbitrary personal style that responded to nothing permanent in social conditions.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Arthur did not come home till several weeks after my return to Grassdale; but I did not feel so anxious about him now; to think of him engaged in active sports among the wild hills of Scotland, was very different from knowing him to be immersed amid the corruptions and temptations of London.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“That fellow is no fool,” said Aramis, as he got on his horse.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

He's not for sale at any price.
— from Craphound by Cory Doctorow

Not only the greatest, but also the promptest, courage is needed for such an act of courage.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, No. 03, March 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

They had not felt so altogether alone as they did at Yale.
— from Russell H. Conwell, Founder of the Institutional Church in America The Work and the Man by Agnes Rush Burr

Robert Hagburn, one might suppose, would have been the most to her taste; a ruddy, burly young fellow, handsome, and free of manner, six feet high, famous through the neighborhood for strength and athletic skill, the early promise of what was to be a man fit for all offices of active rural life, and to be, in mature age, the selectman, the deacon, the representative, the colonel.
— from Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mr. Grubb takes no text, preaches no formal sermon, aims at no rhetorical flight, does not strike you as being very intellectual, or very original, or very learned.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

French Polynesia: none French Southern and Antarctic Lands: "Adelie Land" claim in Antarctica is not recognized by the US Gabon: maritime boundary dispute with Equatorial Guinea because of disputed sovereignty over islands in Corisco Bay Gambia, The: none Gaza Strip: West Bank and Gaza Strip are Israeli-occupied with current status subject to the Israeli-Palestinian Interim Agreement - permanent status to be determined through further negotiation Georgia: none Germany: none Ghana: none Gibraltar: source of friction between Spain and the UK Glorioso Islands: claimed by Madagascar Greece: complex maritime, air, and territorial disputes with Turkey in Aegean Sea; Cyprus question with Turkey; dispute with The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia over its name Greenland: none Grenada:
— from The 2001 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Unfortunately, he will not find such authorities as have delivered themselves on the subject by any means unanimous; more unfortunately still, it must be said here, he will find most of them inadequate, and not a few positively wrong.
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

"But it is not enough merely to exist," said he, "I need freedom, sunshine, and a little flower for a companion.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

We could not find such accommodations as we desired, and you were so kind as to offer to accommodate us till we could obtain a house, or make other arrangements.”
— from Living Too Fast; Or, The Confessions of a Bank Officer by Oliver Optic