You have saved her life this time, and you can go home and rest easy in mind that all that can be is.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Since Britain was already separated from the Roman empire, I might, without reproach, decline a story familiar to the most illiterate, and obscure to the most learned, of my readers.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But there was no remedy; either I must follow them, or keep entirely apart from them, and thus appear neglectful of my charge.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

Below this, if we except that gift of the Gods, the soul, which has been given by the liberality of the Gods to the human race, everything is mortal, and tends to dissolution; but above the moon all is eternal.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Does it not argue a superintending Providence that, while viewless and unexpected events thrust themselves continually athwart our path, there should still be regularity enough in mortal life to render foresight even partially available?
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

No romantic episode in my whole life, so that I only know by hearsay of rendezvous, 'avenues of sighs,' and kisses.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

If Davis voluntarily offers to give up the farm, the other shall have it; but I will not begin at this time of day to distress my tenants, because they are unfortunate, and cannot make regular payments: I wonder that Barns should think me capable of such oppression—As for Higgins, the fellow is a notorious poacher, to be sure; and an impudent rascal to set his snares in my own paddock; but, I suppose, he thought he had some right (especially in my absence) to partake of what nature seems to have intended for common use—you may threaten him in my name, as much as you please, and if he repeats the offence, let me know it before you have recourse to justice.—I know you are a great sportsman, and oblige many of your friends: I need not tell you to make use of my grounds; but it may be necessary to hint, that I am more afraid of my fowling-piece than of my game.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Thanks to my friend Sir Roger, else I must have gone to jail.
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Thus, now, not an unconscious pang in my dying sister’s emaciated body, not a thrill of horror in my niece’s restless sleep at the recollection of the crime perpetrated upon her, an innocent child, but found a responsive echo in my bleeding heart.
— from Nightmare Tales by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

So also with respect to the Lord's Supper; if those who partake shall have faith to grasp the promise of Christ, as it is written, Oportet accedentem credere , but none the less does God's word, ordinance, and command remain, even if my faith [364] never more turned thereto.
— from Freaks of Fanaticism, and Other Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Rorer’s MS. reads: “ Et in me sentio satanæ nisum .”
— from Luther, vol. 5 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

On this inseparability of egoism and altruism I received excellent instruction many years ago out of the mouth of babes and sucklings.
— from Altruism: Its Nature and Varieties by George Herbert Palmer

But I cannot but think that he was guilty of sad violations of that rule, especially in my own case.
— from The Letters of Ambrose Bierce, With a Memoir by George Sterling by Ambrose Bierce

Depending, however, on the railroads to their rear for transportation, they have not thus far advanced this side of Green River, except in marauding parties.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

It is needless to follow Rashi, etc., in making this an address to God, as though it were a prayer to Him that ruin might fall on His enemy Nebuchadrezzar.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Daniel by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

She at once retorted, exclaiming in mock earnest, "I appeal!
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. by Various

"By laws human and by right divine," he said, "the Holy Roman Empire is my inheritance.
— from Historic Boys: Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times by Elbridge S. (Elbridge Streeter) Brooks