"Why, Farmer Oak," she said, over the top, looking at him with rounded eyes, "I never said I was going to marry you.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

His presence, the gratuitous sacrifice of his own life, would have added only another and a needless agony to the last moments of the dying man; but concealment had imparted to a justifiable act much of the secret effect of guilt; and Reuben, while reason told him that he had done right, experienced in no small degree the mental horrors which punish the perpetrator of undiscovered crime.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In this respect, email is not safer than ordinary mail.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

I am supposing that the legislator is by nature of the true sort, and that his strength is united with that of the chief men of the state; and when the ruling element is numerically small, and at the same time very strong, as in a tyranny, there the change is likely to be easiest and most rapid.
— from Laws by Plato

Mr Spedding writes: ‘The received emendation is not satisfactory to me.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

But the Romans, especially in negative sentences, often expressed the comparison in this way, Nihil est clārius sōle which, literally translated, is Nothing is brighter away from the sun ; that is, starting from the sun as a standard, nothing is brighter .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

From the knowledge gained in the preceding lesson we should translate the sentence Nothing is brighter than the sun Nihil est clârius quam sôl But the Romans, especially in negative sentences, often expressed the comparison in this way, Nihil est clârius sôle which, literally translated, is Nothing is brighter away from the sun ; that is, starting from the sun as a standard, nothing is brighter .
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

As the number of men they were obliged to have was fixed and there was no conscription, they enrolled for money, first any Prussians who came forward, and then all the vagabonds of Europe, whom their recruiters enlisted in neighbouring states.
— from The Memoirs of General Baron de Marbot by Marbot, Jean-Baptiste-Antoine-Marcelin, baron de

The Yukon River brings down from its course of two thousand miles and more many hundred tons of soil daily which it deposits along the coast, while the Kuskoquin River, second only to the Yukon in volume, is engaged in the same work about a hundred and fifty miles south of where the greater river empties into Norton Sound.
— from The New Eldorado: A Summer Journey to Alaska by Maturin Murray Ballou

For the existence of professional minstrels the Roman evidence is not so clear, though we may regard in this light the two 'barbarians' mentioned by Priscus (p. 84 ).
— from The Heroic Age by H. Munro (Hector Munro) Chadwick

Of course a raw egg is not so good as one nicely cooked, but it would keep a fellow from looking as bad as you do.
— from The New Forest Spy by George Manville Fenn

vi. 206):—“Deum mater et amavit formosum adolescentem, et eumdem cum pellice deprehensum exsectis virilibus semivirum reddidit; et ideo nunc sacra ejus a Gallis sacerdotibus celebrantur.”
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

The spirit of rational enquiry into nature seems, if we can judge from the uncertain and often contradictory notices handed down to us of their tenets, to have been far more alive, and less warped by this vain and arrogant turn, then than at a later period.
— from Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy by John F. W. (John Frederick William) Herschel

For a thoroughly rapt expression I never saw anything equal to the Virgin in this picture; and the expression [177] is the more remarkable because it is not assisted by the usual devices to express spiritual ecstasy, such as delicacy of feature and temperament, or pale meagreness.
— from George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 (of 3) by George Eliot