“Really Mr. Holmes,” said Mr. Merryweather, as we followed them from the cellar, “I do not know how the bank can thank you or repay you.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Swanson begged, “Oh, say, lemme tell you the story—” But Frink went on resolutely, “You take and save the shells from peas, and pour six gallons of water on a bushel of shells and boil the mixture till—” Mrs. Babbitt turned toward them with yearning sweetness; Frink hastened to finish even his best beer-recipe; and she said gaily, “Dinner is served.”
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

The first fault, especially if merely discursive enthusiasm, is excusable, the latter pernicious, VI for, as Dr. Johnson says of Robertson, "You are sure he does not know the people whom he paints, so you cannot suppose a likeness.
— from Napoleon's Letters to Josephine, 1796-1812 For the First Time Collected and Translated, with Notes Social, Historical, and Chronological, from Contemporary Sources by Emperor of the French Napoleon I

Thus, in speaking of the site of Rome, you refer to a systematic policy, to the acts of Romulus, which were many of them the result of necessity or chance; and you do not allow your discourse to run riot over many states, but you fix and concentrate it on our own Commonwealth.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In one respect you are right, for I am ready to quarrel with everyone today; but you have the first claim, M. Danglars.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Do you understand that you ought to forgive me that blow in the face if only because I gave you the opportunity of realising your immense power.…
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But supposing one of these, Mrs. Brown ( née Smith), was entitled to quarter the arms of Jones, which arms of Jones had brought in the arms of Robinson, you are not at liberty to quarter the arms of Jones without quartering Smith, and if you wish to display the arms of Robinson you must also quarter the arms of Jones to bring in Robinson and the arms of Smith to bring in Robinson and Jones to your own Brown achievement.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

I only remember your mother—knew her when she was a girl.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Such then is the proper answer to that censure: for it must be admitted, that in some cases nothing can prevent music being attended, to a certain degree, with the bad effects which are ascribed to it; it is therefore clear that the learning of it should never prevent the business of riper years; nor render the body effeminate, and unfit for the business of war or the state; but it should be practised by the young, judged of by the old.
— from Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle

—His coadjutor, Amir Khan, is now linked by treaties “in amity and unity of interests” 544 with the sovereigns of India; and though he has carried mourning into every house of Rajasthan, yet charity might hope forgiveness would be extended to him, could he cleanse himself from this deed of horror—‘throwing this pearl away, richer than all his tribe!’
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

"Because the Witan has not yet met, and until it has gone through the form, the mere form, of recognising your title, you are not actually king.
— from Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune A Tale of the Days of Saint Dunstan by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake

By Senator Yutzy: Q. Did you not only reduce your crews, so far as the conductors and brakemen and flagmen were concerned, one half of a train, if it was sent out as a double-header? A. One half of the trains we were running single between Pittsburgh and Derry.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

" The second clue to Seward's new policy of international brigandage was the need, as he conceived it, to propitiate those Southern expansionists who in the lower South at least formed so large a part of the political machine, who must somehow be lured back into the Union; to whom the Virginia Compromise, as well as every other scheme of readjustment yet suggested, offered no allurement.
— from Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War by Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright) Stephenson

[Pg 136] development of mineral resources which has been the most striking feature of recent years.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

Coming into view, past Laura and her group of scholars, an old-fashioned buggy, drawn by a horse of ripe years, was bearing down toward Snug Haven.
— from Cursed by George Allan England

Thou concord breath’d through avenues of sound, Witchery, ever winning, from its power to blend Fancy’s light hints with intuition’s ground: Fulness of power lives not with those who roam, Dandling the toy of a fantastic grief, Iconoclast of woe, it builds its home In joy’s ebullience at its own relief; Youth founds the pile where age contented dwells, And drowns his dearth with draughts from childhood’s wells.
— from Connected Poems by Charles Seabridge

“Ah, Ella,” I cried in disgust, “all these falsehoods only render your conduct the more despicable.
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

Invent some manner of realizing your own ideals which will also satisfy the alien demands,—that and that only is the path of peace!
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James