The gold and silver camels, and the ice-pails, and the rest of the Veneering table decorations, make a brilliant show, and when I, Podsnap, casually remark elsewhere that I dined last Monday with a gorgeous caravan of camels, I find it personally offensive to have it hinted to me that they are broken-kneed camels, or camels labouring under suspicion of any sort.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

she added, ‘I have no great crime to confess; but I have more than you will like to hear, or, perhaps, can readily excuse,—and more than I can tell you now; so let me entreat you to leave me!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The pain came right enough, later on, when his heart and his feet were heavy, his brain dead, his life stopped.
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Therefore, if he who rules a principality cannot recognize evils until they are upon him, he is not truly wise; and this insight is given to few.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

Metaphysicus , 2. perscrutatur Causas , & rerum Effecta .
— from The Orbis Pictus by Johann Amos Comenius

In these days, when so many worship at the shrine of Romanism, we think it perfectly just to adopt Cato’s sentence in this form: Præterea censeo Romam esse delendam . 33 FOREWORD.
— from The Younger Edda; Also called Snorre's Edda, or The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson

He busied himself with great questions: the social problem, moralisation of the poorer classes, pisciculture, caoutchouc, railways, etc.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Cum enim rex Pyrrhus populo Romano bellum ultro intulisset, cumque de imperio certamen esset cum rege generoso ac potenti, [341] perfuga ab eo venit in castra Fabrici eique est pollicitus, si praemium sibi proposuisset, se, ut clam venisset, sic clam in Pyrrhi castra rediturum et eum veneno necaturum.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It was German silver, and crippled and rusty, but it was so preposterously out of place there that it was suggestive of a tattered exiled king among barbarians, and the majesty of its native position compelled respect even in its degradation.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

If the people could rise en masse, now that the royal government was in abeyance, and, as it were, in the nation's hands, the incubus might be cast off for ever.
— from The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1574-84) by John Lothrop Motley

Gas, Pintsch, repair parts Catalog reference Each. Gates, coach tail do.
— from Material Classification Recommended by the Railway Storekeepers' Association by United States. Railroad administration. Division of finance

The ‘Privy Council Register’ extends from the last years of Henry VIII.
— from The Greville Memoirs, Part 1 (of 3), Volume 1 (of 3) A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV by Charles Greville

The young men of Sallertaine and the neighbouring parishes came readily enough to dances at La Seulière; they danced, drank, joked with her, but not one of them offered to marry her.
— from Autumn Glory; Or, The Toilers of the Field by René Bazin

Padlocks Catalogue reference Each.
— from Material Classification Recommended by the Railway Storekeepers' Association by United States. Railroad administration. Division of finance

The Prince consented readily enough to marry so beautiful a Princess; but when they were left alone he told her all his story.
— from The Blue Rose Fairy Book by Maurice Baring

"With pleasure, captain," replied Elsler, as he turned his horse, and rode rapidly away.
— from The Border Spy; or, The Beautiful Captive of the Rebel Camp A Story of the War by Harry Hazelton

No technical description of a cheese-handling process can replace experience.
— from The Book of Cheese by Charles Thom