I had not gone a hundred yards before I deeply repented my rashness.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

amā´ rent monē´ rent re´ge rent ca´pe rent audī´ rent PASSIVE 1.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

He requested Mr. Richardson, son of the painter, to endeavour to find out who this new authour was.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

When he had somewhat abruptly left the room, Margaret rose from her seat, and began silently to fold up her work; the long seams were heavy, and had an unusual weight for her languid arms.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The timid and selfish policy of the court of Ravenna might recall the Palatine legions for the protection of Italy; the remains of the stationary troops might be unequal to the arduous task; and the Barbarian auxiliaries might prefer the unbounded license of spoil to the benefits of a moderate and regular stipend.
— 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

I shall not pause here to relate anecdotes as examples to illustrate my theory; for it is so simple and comprehensible that it does not require them, and everything ludicrous which the reader may remember is equally valuable as a proof of it.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Which defect of nature, whether ought it to be treated with leniency if there were a particle of humanity in him, or ought it to be punished, and rendered more remarkable by harsh treatment?
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[‘ rime ’] rima m. ‘ rim ,’ verge, border, coast ,
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Still, though Common Sense does not regard moral rules as being merely the mandates of an Omnipotent Being who will reward and punish men according as they obey or violate them; it certainly holds that this is a true though partial view of them, and perhaps that it may be intuitively apprehended.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In spite of the fact of the charms of the Nile and the fun we frequently had, I write on February 1, from Thebes, to my little playmate “Edie,” with rather melancholy reminiscence of a more congenial past: “My own darling Edie,” I say, “don’t you remember what fun we used to have out in the country, and don’t you remember the day we got Pony Grant up in the Chauncey’s summer house and couldn’t get him down again, and how we always were losing Teedie’s india rubber shoes?
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

Power? 'tis just the main assumption reason most revolts at!
— from A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.) by Orr, Sutherland, Mrs.

The reader may remember that in one of the chapters, at the beginning of this work, I have given him a concise explanation of this very subject.
— from The Sharper Detected and Exposed by Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin

"Will you be so kind as to lend me twenty-five dollars, until I receive my remittance?"
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

Taking a circuitous route, they kept the Heilbron road some distance on their right, and by rapid marching reached Colvile’s camp at seven o’clock on Thursday morning.
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 5 (of 8) From the Disaster at Koorn Spruit to Lord Roberts's Entry into Pretoria by Louis Creswicke

She had used the most obvious expedient of reaching my rooms.
— from Thieves' Wit: An Everyday Detective Story by Hulbert Footner

He had made a complete circuit of this strange “nest” or gash in the vastness of the Rocky Mountain Range and was convinced there was no opening.
— from The Treasure of Hidden Valley by Willis George Emerson

But a couple of gallant young Englishmen, who with us were making the tour of the world, were determined that she should not be imprisoned below, and they set up on deck a screen, in which she was enclosed as in a tent; and not Cleopatra, when floating in her gilded barge, reclined more royally than she, thus lifted up into the cool night air.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field