All the men, even Jonathan, seemed relieved; but it did not seem to me good that they should brave danger and, perhaps, lessen their safety—strength being the best safety—through care of me; but their minds were made up, and, though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow, I could say nothing, save to accept their chivalrous care of me.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

He had not entered the place for more than four years—not, indeed, since he had used it first as a play-room when he was a child, and then as a study when he grew somewhat older.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

By the means of which measures, all commodities, Moveable, and Immoveable, are made to accompany a man, to all places of his resort, within and without the place of his ordinary residence; and the same passeth from Man to Man, within the Common-wealth; and goes round about, Nourishing (as it passeth)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Frenchmen; two Frenchmen and a Ricara Indian also take their passage in her as far as the Ricara Vilages, at which place we expect Mr. Tiebeau to embark with his peltry who in that case will make an addition of two, perhaps four men to the crew of the barge.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

“My dear sir, it is painful for me to discuss it, but if the money is not paid on the 14th, there certainly will be no marriage on the 18th.”
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

It is no more possible for me to conceive how my will moves my body than to conceive how my sensations affect my mind.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Another saying of his was, that “The forum was an established place for men to cheat one another, and behave covetously.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

If one of two wives be an heiress her arms might be found in pretence and the other coat or coats impaled, but it is impossible in such a case to place a number to the wife, and it is impossible to display an escutcheon of pretence for more than one wife, as if the escutcheon of pretence is removed from the exact centre it at once ceases to be an escutcheon of pretence.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

If, then, we believe that the saints who shall be found alive at Christ's coming, and shall be caught up to meet Him, shall in that same ascent pass from mortal to immortal bodies, we shall find no difficulty in the words of the apostle, either when he says, "That which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die," or when he says, "We shall all rise," or "all sleep," for not even the saints shall be quickened to immortality unless they first die, however briefly; and consequently they shall not be exempt from resurrection which is preceded by sleep, however brief.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Nice prospect for me to marry a poacher’s daughter.”
— from The Star-Gazers by George Manville Fenn

The statutes of Raymond, in 1234, while dwelling elaborately on the subject of confiscation, made no provision for meeting the cost of the new Inquisition, and the matter remained unsettled.
— from A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea

But years have slipped by me, and now wishing in middle life to procure for myself the comfort of wedded happiness, I have looked about, and have found no one more likely to give it me, than Miss Thoroughbung.
— from Mr. Scarborough's Family by Anthony Trollope

The Governors of the French colony made their presence felt more than the English settlers could tolerate; they interfered with them unduly, engaged in privateering expeditions and land forays against them, destroyed their property, and burned down their houses.
— from The Story of Newfoundland by Birkenhead, Frederick Edwin Smith, Earl of

Watching them was the light cruiser Gloucester , which was no match at all for the Goeben , and strung out to the north-east, guarding the passage from Messina to the Adriatic, were the three English battle cruisers Inflexible , Indomitable and Indefatigable .
— from The Silent Watchers England's Navy during the Great War: What It Is, and What We Owe to It by Bennet Copplestone

"Lord preserve 's, Ma'colm!" cried Miss Horn, as soon as he had ended his tale, to which she had listened in silence, with fierce eyes and threatening nose; "isna 't a mercy I wasna made like some fowk, or I couldna ha' bidden to see the puir fallow misguidet that gait!
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

No. Was it likely that he could trace his pedigree for more than three centuries before Christ, or that he would suddenly confide the absolute guardianship of his child, and leave half his fortune, to a college friend?
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

The piety which kept a pure and God -fearing atmosphere about my home, and to which I owe all the strength I have found against evil since I left it, was far too sincere in both my parents for me to speak of any phase of it with disrespect.
— from We and the World: A Book for Boys. Part I by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

"Would it be possible for me to wheel myself over the common and across the street?
— from Jerry's Reward by Evelyn Snead Barnett