If not, why did it rouse up so many old recollections, or mockeries of such, the shadows of things familiar yet unknown, and fill my mind with confused images of her features who had spoken, though buried in the gloom of the parlor? Whom had my heart recognized, that it throbbed so?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I don't know as much as you think I do, and yet I am not entirely ignorant of the art of loving, or, rather, of making one's self loved, in which you are a little lacking.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Here he thanked me for the extreme pleasure I had procured him, and seeing, perhaps, some marks in my countenance of terror and apprehension of retaliation on my own skin, for what I had been the instrument of his suffering in his, he assured me, "he was ready to give up to me any engagement I might deem myself under to stand him, as he had done me, but that if I proceeding in my consent to it, he would consider the difference of my sex, its greater delicacy and incapacity to undergo pain.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

Therefore the man, who is asked by an authour, what he thinks of his work, is put to the torture, and is not obliged to speak the truth; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion; yet he has said it, and cannot retract it; and this authour, when mankind are hunting him with a cannister at his tail, can say, "I would not have published, had not Johnson, or Reynolds, or Musgrave, or some other good judge, commended the work."
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

We no longer go out in search of resignation, of mortification, of sacrifice; we are no longer humble in heart nor poor in spirit."
— from Life and Writings of Maurice Maeterlinck by Jethro Bithell

Therefore the man, who is asked by an authour, what he thinks of his work, is put to the torture, and is not obliged to speak the truth; so that what he says is not considered as his opinion; yet he has said it, and cannot retract it; and this authour, when mankind are hunting him with a cannister at his tail, can say, "I would not have published, had not Johnson, or Reynolds, or Musgrave, or some other good judge commended the work."
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 by James Boswell

The U-boats’ first allotted task was the legitimate one of reducing our margin of superiority in battle-ships and cruisers.
— from Submarine and Anti-submarine by Newbolt, Henry John, Sir

A little later an investigation committee composed of Rev. Oscar McGill of Seattle, and Rev. Elbert E. Flint, Rev. Jos.
— from The Everett Massacre: A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry by Walker C. Smith

All the white water had disappeared, and in its place arose islands of rock, or mud, or sand.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

The following list contains the titles of some of the more important works of reference, of memoirs on special points such as reproduction and of papers that have a special reference to Asiatic species.
— from Freshwater Sponges, Hydroids & Polyzoa by Nelson Annandale

The late Mr. Cowper Ranyard once remarked of measures of star-distances that they would be considered rough by a cook who was in the habit of measuring her salt by the cupful and her pepper by the pinch.
— from Through the Telescope by James Baikie