“No,” replied Mousqueton, “Parry kept it.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

It made Peter kick instead of stab.
— from Peter and Wendy by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

She has fine books and pictures, knows interesting persons, and seems friendly, so I shall make myself agreeable, for I do want to get into good society, only it isn't the same sort that Amy likes.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

“ Panie Kalganov, in gentlemanly society one doesn't say such things.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

But help of a very practical kind it is the aim of the following pages to give; although it may be necessary to make a greater call upon the intelligence of the student than these Victorian methods attempted.
— from The Practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed

I'd already entered her public key into my keychain, so I told the IM client to try decrypting the code with the key.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

This was the failure of the direct royal line in that branch of the House of Austria which was then on the Spanish throne; and the issues to be determined when the present king, infirm both in body and mind, should die, were whether the new monarch was to be taken from the House of Bourbon or from the Austrian family in Germany; and whether, in either event, the sovereign thus raised to the throne should succeed to the entire inheritance, the Empire of Spain, or some partition of that vast inheritance be made in the interests of the balance of European power.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The trustworthy object which is thus retained in thought, the complex of connected events, is nature, and though so intelligible an object is not soon nor vulgarly recognised, because human reflection is perturbed and halting, yet every forward step in scientific and practical knowledge is a step toward its clearer definition.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Bab yang ka-ampat nama bintang-nya Shams, warna-nya hijau; diam-nya pada langit yang ka-ampat; apakala melangkah kita pada katika itu ada-lah kras uleh kita atau bersua dengan orang yang besar-besar, atau benatang yang besar, atau ular yang besar-besar, atau angin yang besar-besar, atau barang sabagei-nya besar-besar jua, hijau-hijau warna-nya; pada katika itulah kita hanya pekerja’an jangan-lah melangkah karna kusmus (?) pada katika itu; wa’llahu aʿlam.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

In the second place, Keelung is a squalid and dirty town, with none of the picturesqueness of the open country or of the tiny peasant-villages.
— from Among the Head-Hunters of Formosa by Janet B. Montgomery McGovern

When the sick soul, all tortured with its pain, Knowing itself forever more bereft, Finds waiting hopeless and all watching vain, When empty arms grow rigid with their ache, When eyes are blinded with sad tides of tears, When stricken hearts do suffer, yet not break, For loss of those who come not with the years— Thank God, thank God for dreams!
— from Maurine and Other Poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Two of the most powerful kings in Europe, Philip the Fair of France and Edward the First of England, began at the same time to lay an arbitrary hand upon the revenues of the Church.
— from A Tour Through Old Provence by A. S. (Archibald Stevenson) Forrest

First he went to the King of Portugal in whose dominions he had made his home, and asked the King for ships and men to undertake a trip that would make Portugal the richest and most powerful kingdom in the entire world,—for once the new lands were discovered, said Columbus, there would be gold for all and land a plenty,—to say nothing of the opportunity for carrying the religion of the Holy Catholic Church into far lands and saving the souls of the heathen.
— from A Treasury of Heroes and Heroines A Record of High Endeavour and Strange Adventure from 500 B.C. to 1920 A.D. by Clayton Edwards

The Crown may say that it is remarkable, inasmuch as Palmer knew it, and said not a word about it; but I think that it shows that the fit was so little serious in the opinion of Cook that he did not think it worth mentioning to his intimate friend Jones.
— from The Most Extraordinary Trial of William Palmer, for the Rugeley Poisonings, which lasted Twelve Days by Anonymous

"If you have been beaten on a rickety, double-construed platform, kick it to pieces, and lay one broad and strong, on which men can stand."
— from Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02 by John G. (John George) Nicolay

The only copy of this book at present known is in the library of Lord Newton.
— from William Caxton by E. Gordon (Edward Gordon) Duff

The Doctor, especially, who, from his professional knowledge in surgical operations, had pronounced it beyond recovery, was the loudest in his expressions of astonishment at this unexpected turn.
— from Travels and adventures in South and Central America. First series Life in the Llanos of Venezuela by Ramón Páez

Purple K.— <i>H. pulchra, Gould.
— from Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia by Edward Ellis Morris