I’ll have to fly round and get somebody to trust me for half-a-dozen second-hand iron tanks.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

What is opposite to the eternal Rules of Reason and good Sense, must be excluded from any Place in the Carriage of a Well-bred Man.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Her long shadow accompanied her, and now and then some night bird flew over her head, while the dogs in the farmyards barked as they heard her pass; one even jumped over the ditch, and followed her and tried to bite her, but she turned round and gave such a terrible yell that the frightened animal ran back and cowered in silence in its kennel.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Wet and damp are, indeed, more unwholsome when applied to the feet than when they affect other parts; 'because they receive a greater supply of blood to carry on a high degree of perspiration, and because their distance from the heart, or centre of circulation, diminishes the force with which this is carried on, and thus leaves them more susceptible from external causes.'
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

"She is really a good singer, you say?
— from A True Friend: A Novel by Adeline Sergeant

Nevertheless there was still much trouble in store for me, for at this point Neptune would let me go no further, and raised a great storm against me; the sea was so terribly high that I could no longer keep to my raft, which went to pieces under the fury of the gale, and I had to swim for it, till wind and current brought me to your shores.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

it well roasted, and good sauce to it, if I pay so dear.
— from The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1604 by Christopher Marlowe

I couldn't go bail for you on my own, of course; but I could hustle round and get some one to do it.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

A quadrangle of stalls, red tiled, of grey timber—trampled straw in their midst—adjoins the house, which is a red-grey cube, white-windowed, [98] with tall, stout chimneys and steep, auburn roof, and green stonecrop frothing over its porch.
— from The Heart of England by Edward Thomas

They were scholars, ripe and good scholars; widely acquainted with ancient as well as modern literature, and not altogether uninstructed in the deeper sciences.
— from Daniel Webster for Young Americans Comprising the greatest speeches of the defender of the Constitution by Daniel Webster

“Hail, Bantry’s noble harbour deep, Where Britain’s fleet may ride, And giant ships, in safety’s keep, May in or outward glide.
— from Romantic Ireland; volume 2/2 by Blanche McManus

Through sympathy alone may suffering be relieved, and genuine sympathy may be best attained through personal experience of suffering.
— from Browning and Dogma Seven Lectures on Browning's Attitude Towards Dogmatic Religion by Ethel M. Naish

“Go across to the public-house in Theobald’s Road and get some supper quickly, for I want you to remain on watch here all night.
— from The Closed Book: Concerning the Secret of the Borgias by William Le Queux

This was really a great step towards in rendering the locomotive more effective; and it is very difficult to ascertain to whom the improvement is justly due.
— from Autobiography of Sir John Rennie, F.R.S., Past President of the Institute of Civil Engineers Comprising the history of his professional life, together with reminiscences dating from the commencement of the century to the present time. by Rennie, John, Sir

Mr. Stanton at once resigned, and General Schofield was made Secretary of War.
— from Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis by Benjamin Perley Poore