"But beware of the Code Napoleon, my father," observed Vasili Ivanitch as he played an ace.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

To prove the genuineness [ 191 ] thereof, he showed me not only the horn, but also the feet with nails complete, as evidence that the horns were not made from the nails.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Potato flour is the waste of potato after the starch and alcohol have been extracted; it has no more food value than so much wood, and as its use as a food adulterant is a penal offense in Europe, thousands of tons of it are shipped to America every year.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

It is not my fault that this terrible tragedy has prevented my doing what was right.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Learn thy woe, that thou blame not me for it, Juturna.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Answer no more, for thou shalt be my queen. GLOUCESTER.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Odin, who went under the name of Baulverk, said that for a draught of Suttung's mead he would do the work of nine men for him.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

ōs , Ne., mouth , face , no G. Pl.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

Only this morning (May twenty-first, eighteen hundred and fifty), came my lady’s nephew, Mr. Franklin Blake, and held a short conversation with me, as follows:— “Betteredge,” says Mr. Franklin, “I have been to the lawyer’s about some family matters; and, among other things, we have been talking of the loss of the Indian Diamond, in my aunt’s house in Yorkshire, two years since.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

He could say no more, for sobs choked his voice, and we all wept together.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

If you do not, then of course you translate it in the Grecian sense, as explained above; and in that sense, we engage to produce many scores of passages from Chaucer, not exceeding 50 to 80 lines, which contain more of picturesque simplicity, more tenderness, more fidelity to nature, more felicity of sentiment, more animation of narrative, and more truth of character, than can be matched in all the Iliad or the Odyssey .
— from The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Thomas De Quincey

[72] It is the Crier; break sleep no more for that.
— from King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Danaë by Gordon Bottomley

No mystic, further, could say harsher things than he does of "Reason."[18] Human reason—or more properly "reasoning"—has for him, as for them, a very limited area for its demesne.
— from Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries by Rufus M. (Rufus Matthew) Jones

As for poor Bella Bruce, a dove's bosom is no more fit to rebuff a poisoned arrow than she was to combat that foulest and direst of all a miscreant's weapons, an anonymous letter.
— from A Terrible Temptation: A Story of To-Day by Charles Reade

And further, that his application to the honorable the Senate, for time to obtain the information of facts, in order to prepare his answer, and for time to procure the attendance of necessary witnesses, and to prepare for his defence in the trial, and to obtain the advice and assistance of counsel, is not made for the purpose of delay, but only for the purpose of obtaining a full hearing of the articles of impeachment against him, in their real merits.
— from Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856, Vol. 3 (of 16) by United States. Congress

His countenance was calm and serene, and apparently he had not moved from the position in his chair in which she had last left him.
— from English Eccentrics and Eccentricities by John Timbs

That question was settled early the next morning, for she was awakened by a soft tap on her face, and opening her eyes she beheld a little black and white figure sitting on her pillow, staring at her with a pair of round eyes very like blueberries, while one downy paw patted her nose to attract her notice.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

The Act likewise authorizes the formation of a fourth district at Cinderford, and the erection and endowment of a church there: thus each district comprised the following number of acres:— St. John’s 5934 St. Paul’s 7741 Holy Trinity 5859 Christ Church 3149 ------ Total 22,683 The same Report also notices the provisions now made for the relief of the poor, and for the abolition of the court and prison of the hundred of St. Briavel’s.
— from The Forest of Dean: An Historical and Descriptive Account by H. G. (Henry George) Nicholls

Washington took the precaution, when he crossed the river, to secure every boat and bateau, so that Cornwallis had no means for continuing an immediate pursuit.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing