“But I’m not a negro, I shall look like a human being when I wash,” said Katavasov in his jesting fashion, and he shook hands and smiled, his teeth flashing white in his black face.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And lastly, am I not to be married to her on Thursday next in sweet Locksley Town?" "Ha," said Robin, "comest thou from Locksley Town?
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Great minds are like eagles, and build their nest in some lofty solitude.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

For your sake," turning to Charlotte, "I am glad of it; but otherwise I see no occasion for entailing estates from the female line.—It was not thought necessary in Sir Lewis de Bourgh's family.—Do you play and sing, Miss Bennet?"
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

“Nothing I should like better.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Tell your lord that my name is Sir Lucan, the butler, a Knight of the Round Table.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Nor is Scylax less precise in pointing out Kasteloryzo as Megiste, which name is found in an inscription copied by M. Cockerell from a rock at Castel Rosso.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

It must, indeed, be confessed, that nature is so liberal to mankind, that, were all her presents equally divided among the species, and improved by art and industry, every individual would enjoy all the necessaries, and even most of the comforts of life; nor would ever be liable to any ills but such as might accidentally arise from the sickly frame and constitution of his body.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

Not I, so long as he does not forswear himself.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson

Well, said Sir Lamorak, since ye have said so largely unto me, my name is Sir Lamorak de Galis, son unto King Pellinore.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

Her husband had one foot in his premature grave when he put the curtain-ring on her finger; but, beyond all doubt, his marriage gave him a new if short lease of life.
— from Love Romances of the Aristocracy by Thornton Hall

Ice is seldom to be found in the Mississippi as low down as the mouth of the Ohio, and never in so large quantities as to oppose any serious obstruction to the navigation.
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 1 by Thomas Say

"Oh no, I should like it very much.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Nothing is so likely to keep him from sin, as committing his thoughts even as his actions unto the Lord.”
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

25 Úpaŋ maŋhigantì sya ay sinípà nya aŋ kúbaʾ. Tinamaan nyà itò sa likòd at dáhil díto ay nàúnat aŋ kanya ŋ kúbaʾ.
— from Tagalog Texts with Grammatical Analysis by Leonard Bloomfield

For those that nest in shrubbery, like the Catbird and the Brown Thrasher, shrubs and vines may be planted so that the desirable tangle may be had.
— from Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Girl Scouts of the United States of America

“You haven't been to sea for nothing,” I said laughing.
— from The Country of the Pointed Firs by Sarah Orne Jewett