This if the Phrygians shall refuse to yield, Arms must revenge, and Mars decide the field.
— from The Iliad by Homer

“But still, if Albert be not so rich as Mademoiselle Danglars,” said the count, “you must allow that he has a fine name?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

But a few days before they left Moscow, moved and excited by all that was going on, she called Sónya to her and, instead of reproaching and making demands on her, tearfully implored her to sacrifice herself and repay all that the family had done for her by breaking off her engagement with Nicholas.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

An ancient dame a firkin sees, In which the rich Falernian lees Send from the nobly tinctured shell A rare and most delicious smell!
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Many young men have taken up a different attitude, and become disciples of J. J. Rousseau and Madame de Staël.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Mr. Jones said: “Tom wasn’t at home, yet, so I gave him up; but I stumbled on him and Huck right at my door, and so I just brought them along in a hurry.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

They brought her back to her unhappy father, and questioned her as to her misfortune, and she confessed without pressure that Vicente de la Roca had deceived her, and under promise of marrying her had induced her to leave her father’s house, as he meant to take her to the richest and most delightful city in the whole world, which was Naples; and that she, ill-advised and deluded, had believed him, and robbed her father, and handed over all to him the night she disappeared; and that he had carried her away to a rugged mountain and shut her up in the cave where they had found her.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And though goods do not always draw money so readily as money draws goods, in the long-run they draw it more necessarily than even it draws them.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Rev. A.J.F. Behrends , D.D., N.Y. Rev. F.A. Noble , D.D., Ill. Rev. Alex. McKenzie , D.D., Mass. Rev.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 11, November, 1889 by Various

His man came rapping at my door after I was in bed.
— from Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall by Robert Stephen Hawker

Should he meet a stranger coming from the churchyard with a quick step, he is morally convinced that the stranger is ‘with a blush retiring,’ as monumentally directed.
— from The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

My niece, Miss Marion Dearsley, is intensely interested in your work, and, as a very large sum of money belonging to that lady remains at my disposal as her trustee, I have, with her approval, transferred to the Mission £30,000 Great Northern Railway ordinary shares, with which we desire to found a maintenance fund for a vessel of 200 tons.
— from A Dream of the North Sea by James Runciman

The last of the Prussians had passed, and both my road and my duty lay clear before me.
— from The Adventures of Gerard by Arthur Conan Doyle

Meantime, those who care to read a masterly debate on the literary problems in question may consult the recently published volume (1893), Biblical Studies , by the late Bishop Lightfoot, of Durham.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

After a long and earnest discussion of it the undersigned were instructed to wire you requesting a more definite statement as to the possibility of an early conference being arranged by your efforts between the heads of the United States Steel Corporation and of the unions involved.
— from The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons by William Z. Foster

'I suppose not,' reluctantly assented Mrs. Devereux.
— from The Crooked Stick; Or, Pollie's Probation by Rolf Boldrewood

As I cannot be here myself, owing to—ah—urgent business in London, I shall certainly take advantage of Mr Burns's kind offer to remain as my deputy.'
— from The Little Nugget by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse