"No," says the other, "I don't positively say it is so; for it is a very long time since I have seen any Greek."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

In America no one is degraded because he works, for everyone about him works also; nor is anyone humiliated by the notion of receiving pay, for the President of the United States also works for pay.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Now, if we refer to Diagram 1, we see how two equal squares may be cut into four pieces that will form one larger square; from which it is self-evident that any square has just half the area of the square of its diagonal.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

He can’t send you back—” “Oh, I don’t want to go back!”
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The glow of burning millions melts outward into dim and fairy outlines until afar the liquid music born of rushing crowds drips like a benediction on the sea.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

And they say that a wise man will very rationally take himself out of life, either for the sake of his country or of [307] his friends, or if he be in bitter pain, or under the affliction of mutilation, or incurable disease.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

But lest the treasure should be stolen from them, they hid the jars among the thick leaves of the forest trees, placing some high up near the top, and others in different parts of the various trees, until they thought no one could find them.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Up, and after being trimmed, all the morning at the office with my people about me till about one o’clock, and then home, and my people with me, and Mr. Wayth and I eat a bit of victuals in my old closet, now my little dining-room, which makes a pretty room, and my house being so clean makes me mightily pleased, but only I do lacke Mercer or somebody in the house to sing with.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In short, anyone looking for an expansive body of international data on a recently updated Web site.
— from The 2009 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

"What a beautiful boy, if only I dared!"
— from Forbidden Fruit: Luscious and exciting story, and More forbidden fruit; or, Master Percy's progress in and beyond the domestic circle by Anonymous

I hope you feel my distress instead of accusing me; the one I deserve, the other not.
— from The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson Compiled From Family Letters and Reminiscences by Sarah N. (Sarah Nicholas) Randolph

Dick turned from this opening in despair, put out his fire, stooped into the fireplace, and examined the interior of the chimney.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

Here we find by dividing 5,238,332,000 by 6,600,000,000 that the region of greatest density in such a nebula would be at 0·7937 of its diameter.
— from New Theories in Astronomy by Willam Stirling

Such care is nevertheless doubly necessary with this structure, on account of its delicacy of ornamentation, as the slightest damage would readily entail a greater and more dangerous one; for the gigantic tower has no foundation wall running round its base but is built upon piles, between which deep in the ground below flows a navigable canal.
— from Louis Spohr's Autobiography Translated from the German by Louis Spohr

“I’ll take my oath I don’t!”
— from Under the Greenwood Tree; Or, The Mellstock Quire A Rural Painting of the Dutch School by Thomas Hardy

The engagement to Miss Hogarth was neither shadowy nor unreal—an engagement only in dreamland.
— from Life of Charles Dickens by Marzials, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), Sir

His Grace, however, will in no wise agree to this; not because he fears the consequences, such as loss of property or increased danger, for therein he is plunged as deeply as he ever could be;—on the contrary, if he considered only the interests of his race and the grandeur of his house, he could expect nothing but increase of honor, gold, and gear, with all other prosperity.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

It seems a pity that those who have so many private collections of antique objects in so many parts of Ireland do not send them all to the Royal Irish Academy; but if they are to lie there, stowed away in drawers in a back room, they might better remain in the hands of private collectors.
— from Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland Being a Tourist's Guide to Its Most Beautiful Scenery & an Archæologist's Manual for Its Most Interesting Ruins by Thomas O’Neill Russell