Oh, but even now I am lying!
— from Notes from the Underground by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To each the other ought to be A world of beauty ever new; In each the other ought to see The whole of what is good and true.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

According to the old belief, every new moon brings the souls who were unfit to be born on the sun, to deposit them here on our earth.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I make a point of buying every new paper I see, and a new paper is often a stimulant to some new quality in drawing.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

Of course, this method must obviously cover all the reversals and reflections, since each corner in turn is occupied by every number in all possible combinations with the other two corners that are in line with it.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

[59] y ( que ) se conocen con (or bajo ) ese nombre .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

Such events, as bear little analogy to the common course of nature, are also readily confessed to be known only by experience; nor does any man imagine that the explosion of gunpowder, or the attraction of a loadstone, could ever be discovered by arguments a priori .
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Parentheses however are often introduced, from Terence on by nam , and from Sallust and Cicero on, by et , neque , autem , enim , &c. (B.) With a Connective.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The Russian ambassadors set their names the first to the copy that remained in their possession, and the Chinese also signed theirs the first, agreeable to the custom observed by European nations, when two equal powers conclude a treaty with each other.
— from The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia by Voltaire

The common law protects both opinions, but enacts neither into law.
— from The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Vol. 6 (of 9) Being His Autobiography, Correspondence, Reports, Messages, Addresses, and Other Writings, Official and Private by Thomas Jefferson

“The gate is open, but enter not there,” whispered the old Mother of the Trees, “for those who enter there live not long.
— from The Ghost Kings by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

On the evening in question, I remember he told us we were not half thankful enough, nor proud enough, of the privilege of being Englishwomen, nor sensible of the blessings which from our very cradles that name conferred.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

"And do you remember, Elena Vladimirovna, how one beautiful Easter night two young people kissed one another just inside the church-house gate?" asked, Voznitsin.
— from A Slav Soul, and Other Stories by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin

As Robert Johnson and Thomas Anderson passed homeward from the market, having bought provisions for their respective homes, they seemed to be very light-hearted and careless, chatting and joking with each other; but every now and then, after looking furtively around, one would drop into the ears of the other some news of the battle then raging between the North and South which, like two great millstones, were grinding slavery to powder.
— from Iola Leroy; Or, Shadows Uplifted by Frances Ellen Watkins Harper