But, to my astonishment, when I came to look round me, neither house nor garden were to be seen.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

‘Oh! quite away?’ ‘Yes,’ returned Mrs. Nickleby, ‘certainly.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Phr. carpe diem[Lat], [Horace]; occasionem cognosce[Lat]; one's hour is come, the time is up; that reminds me, now that you mention it, come to think of it; bien perdu bien connu[Fr]; e sempre l'ora[It]; ex quovis ligno non fit Mercurius[Lat]; nosce tempus[Lat]; nunc aut nunquam[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But this circumstance may be readily explained from what has just been said; because practical pure reason must necessarily begin with principles, which therefore must be the first data, the foundation of all science, and cannot be derived from it.
— from The Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant

Nature has appointed that the propagation of the species shall be the business of men who are young, strong and handsome; so that the race may not degenerate.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

“Truly,” said King Arthur, “I am grieved for thy departure; but tarry not long, and thou shalt be right welcome to me and all my knights when thou returnest, and I will repair my neglect and all that I have done amiss against thee.”
— from The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by Knowles, James, Sir

“It has not been a lucky day for me,” rejoined the lad, “I could not find a single gentleman’s horse to hold, so help me, except one what was at the House of Commons, and he kept me there two mortal hours and said when he came out, that he would remember me next time.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

it was here, round my neck, sewn up in a rag, and I'd had it round my neck a long time, it's a month since I put it round my neck ... to my shame and disgrace!”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In after years, no one was quicker to discern the attractive qualities of Russian music, nor more assiduous in its propagation than Franz Liszt.
— from Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Such omission sometimes—as in the present instance—renders it compulsory to record a few after facts connected with the adventure last detailed, in order that the reader may not be confused by the reappearance of certain persons under circumstances and in places widely separated from those in which they were left.
— from Cleek, the Master Detective by Thomas W. Hanshew

And, in fact, for the first two days of his stay under my roof Misha not merely justified my expectations but surpassed them, while the ladies of the household were simply enchanted with him.
— from A Desperate Character and Other Stories by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I was alone, and in the woods, yet I blushed at my own heedlessness; for, to the reflecting mind, no witness is necessary to excite the emotion of shame."
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

Wadleton COLUMBIA BACK IN THE GAME, 1915 Rush makes no boasts.
— from Football Days Memories of the Game and of the Men behind the Ball by William H. (William Hanford) Edwards

He was not certain that she herself might not have had some share in proposing the plan, and that his refusal might not have some mortifying consequences for her.
— from Democracy, an American novel by Henry Adams

I have, as 'twere, detractors by the score,— Reject me not for faults that I deplore
— from A Lover's Litanies by Eric Mackay

The king sent for the serjeant and mace, but the messenger could obtain no admittance—the usher of the black rod met no more regard.
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

He knew the mercilessness of the red men near at hand, and he was equally merciless to them.
— from The Young Ranchers; Or, Fighting the Sioux by Edward Sylvester Ellis

He evidently took the blow as a military order for a rear motion; nothing more, and no occasion for malice.
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various