"The open high road is my right place; up there I did not feel at ease.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

[Picking up telegram] I don’t want to be a Beau Brummel.
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nothing can part us there, I devoutly believe; for we leave our burdens all behind us when we go.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

So they opened the iron gate and walked down towards the man; and guessing the woman, if employed, must mean something by the tuft of grass, I cast my eye that way, whence she pulled it, and saw more grass seemingly pulled up: then I doubted not something was there for me; and I walked to it, and standing over it, said to Nan, That's a pretty sort of wild flower, that grows yonder, near the elm, the fifth from us on the left; pray pull it for me.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

El caso de anteanoche, según lo contó mi tío, me parece una treta infame de D. José para conseguir su objeto por medio del 15 escándalo.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

" CHAPTER 29 GILBERT AND ANNE DISAGREE Gilbert laid down the ponderous medical tome over which he had been poring until the increasing dusk of the March evening made him desist.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

To assume that at such a distance in space, in the then state of news-communication and ocean-transportation, and in spite of the ignorance and extreme poverty of the peasantries of Europe from which the immigrants were then generally drawn, there was so exact a degree of knowledge not only of the fact that the native element here was not keeping up its rate of increase but also of the precise ratio of that decline as to enable those peasantries, with or without a mutual understanding, to supply just the numbers necessary to bring our population up to its due proportions, would be little less than laughable.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I meant to write a history of the troubles of unhappy Poland up to its dismemberment, which was taking place at the epoch in which I was writing.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Pray understand that I do not profess to have been at all overfond of my late daughter.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Pray understand that I didn't come here to ask for your daughter's hand, but to buy a pair of oxen that you intend to take to the fair next week and that my father-in-law thinks will suit him."
— from The Devil's Pool by George Sand

While the revueltoso line was still miles away his keen eyes picked up the individual dust clouds that marked its units serpentining across the sage.
— from Over the Border: A Novel by Herman Whitaker

In addition to these references, valuable material is contained in such local papers as the Northampton Herald, Northampton Mercury, Stamford Mercury, Stamford Guardian, and the Peterborough Express, and the Peterborough Standard; particularly under the important dates 1820, 1864, 1873, and 1893.
— from Poems Chiefly from Manuscript by John Clare

These panels were dedicated entirely to the public business, and anybody had the right to paint upon them, in delicate and slender letters, the advertisements which we now find in the columns of the newspapers.
— from The Underground World: A mirror of life below the surface by Thomas Wallace Knox

“I was practically unconscious, therefore I do not know who was present; I only heard voices.”
— from In White Raiment by William Le Queux

When humble-bees visit the flowers (and I repeatedly saw them thus acting) the lower petals suddenly spring downwards and the pistil upwards; this is due to the elasticity of the parts, which takes effect, as soon as the coherent edges of the hood are separated by the entrance of an insect.
— from The Effects of Cross & Self-Fertilisation in the Vegetable Kingdom by Charles Darwin

In sailing along the shore, we saw the natives assembled in great numbers as well upon Portland Island as the main: We could also distinguish several spots of ground that were cultivated; some seemed to be fresh turned up, and lay in furrows like ploughed land, and some had plants upon them in different stages of their growth.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Robert Kerr

Besides, there are people up there I don't want to meet; I have no fancy for being made ashamed of myself.
— from Malcolm by George MacDonald

As in the tragedy of life, so, too, in this drama, the innocent suffer through the punishment that overtakes the guilty; witness the sorrow of Rafael and the good angels at the fall of their fellows; the sin of Adam and Eve, and the doom pronounced upon their innocent descendants.
— from Vondel's Lucifer by Joost van den Vondel