" "It is quite true that I might be a wiser person, Celia," said Dorothea, "and that I might have done something better, if I had been better.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves, and which, though they speedily give place to better information, and more deliberate reflection, have a tendency, in the meantime, to occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

At six o’clock they had dinner, then they played cards, sang, danced; at last they had supper.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Few are aware how the great literature penetrates all, gives hue to all, shapes aggregates and individuals, and, after subtle ways, with irresistible power, constructs, sustains, demolishes at will.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

but you are dead: I'll fill these dogged spies with false reports; And, pretty child, sleep doubtless and secure That Hubert, for the wealth of all the world, Will not offend thee.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The governing body of a Cathedral or Collegiate Church, consisting of the Dean, the Canons, Prebendaries, &c. (See Dean and Chapter .)
— from The Church Handy Dictionary by Anonymous

Overpowered with his own passions, Cesarini sank down and covered his face with his clasped hands.
— from Ernest Maltravers — Volume 09 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

And for the other genuine articles, I don't know that much of the tea comes from China—and the coffee is sold ground, because it is burnt maize—and there's a plenty of wholesome cabbage leaf cut up in the tobacco—while as for snuff, I give them a dry, peppery, choky, sneezy dust, and I dare say that it does its duty."
— from The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper by Martin Farquhar Tupper

"I don't see why 'poor Chesterford,'" said Dodo, "any more than 'poor me.'
— from Dodo: A Detail of the Day. Volumes 1 and 2 by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

It is confidently asserted by many that the summer diarrhœa of infants is [505] due to this toxine; however that may be, it is well established that diazobenzol is a violent poison, causing sickness, diarrhœa, and, in large doses, an acute malady scarcely distinguishable from cholera, and which may end fatally.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

It was proved that neither he nor his people could succor Don Alonso, or even know his peril, from the darkness of the night.
— from Chronicle of the Conquest of Granada, from the mss. of Fray Antonio Agapida by Washington Irving