Remember.” Emma was in no danger of forgetting.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

being convinced that this stream came from the mountains I determined to pursue it as it will lead me to the most nothern point to which the waters of Maria's river extend which I now fear will not be as far north as I wished and expected.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But if anyone wishes to see the real rowdy egalitarianism which is necessary (to males, at least) he can find it as well as anywhere in the great old tavern disputes which come down to us in such books as Boswell’s Johnson.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Ann was the result: every woman is not Ann; but Ann is Everywoman.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Thence he marched on three stages—fifteen parasangs—to the river Euphrates, which is nearly half a mile broad.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

The latter bore especially hard on the German Emperor, much of whose strength lay in the power to appoint the bishops and to levy assessments upon them when the royal exchequer was in need.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution

That’s reward enough; Wolfville is never more pleased than the night it opens up to little Enright Peets the beauties which lies hid in Christmas.
— from The Black Lion Inn by Alfred Henry Lewis

The Grand Theatre is remarkably effective with its noble Ionic columns, built a little more than a century since by Louis XVI.
— from Due West; Or, Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

For the rest, we may note concerning Crusius that he derives the principle of sufficient reason (everything which is now, and before was not, has a cause) and the principle of contingency from the principles of contradiction, inseparability, and incompatibility, and these latter from the principle of conceivability; that he rejects the ontological argument, and makes the ground of obligation in morality consist in obedience toward God, and its content in perfection.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The morning of Friday was as serene and beautiful as if no pleasure party had been intended; and that is a rare event, whether in novel-writing or real life.
— from The Antiquary — Complete by Walter Scott