Nor can I understand, with what reason either Mr. Perceval, (whom I am singular enough to regard as the best and wisest minister of this reign,) nor the present Administration, can be said to have pursued the plans of Mr. Pitt.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I remember now that phrase in your letter, but I confess I had forgotten it.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

A trail crosses the ridge near this place, which takes its name from a man who was killed here by a hostile war party in the old fighting days.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

“Has he sent anything?” “Hem!” said Morley, who was by nature a diplomatist, and instantly comprehended his position, being himself pumped when he came to pump; but he resolved not to precipitate the affair.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Why, that requires not this preparation; ye need not have come thus far and dragged your captain to the shame of a defeat merely to prove yourselves cowards.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

He respects not the privileges or customs established of old.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Containing matter rather natural than pleasing.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

About two or three days before I was set at liberty, as I was entertaining the court with this kind of feat, there arrived an express to inform his majesty, that some of his subjects, riding near the place where I was first taken up, had seen a great black substance lying on the around, very oddly shaped, extending its edges round, as wide as his majesty’s bedchamber, and rising up in the middle as high as a man; that it was no living creature, as they at first apprehended, for it lay on the grass without motion; and some of them had walked round it several times; that, by mounting upon each other’s shoulders, they had got to the top, which was flat and even, and, stamping upon it, they found that it was hollow within; that they humbly conceived it might be something belonging to the man-mountain; and if his majesty pleased, they would undertake to bring it with only five horses.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Alice I’d rather not try, please!
— from Alice in Wonderland A Dramatization of Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass" by Alice Gerstenberg

“That is religion not the priest .”
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

For this is what the Holy Alliance tried to do, and the signers of the document solemnly declared that they would “in the administration of their respective states and in their political relations with every other government take for their sole guide the precepts of that Holy Religion, namely the precepts of Justice, Christian Charity and Peace, which far from being applicable only to private concerns must have an immediate influence on the councils of princes, and must guide all their steps as being the only means of consolidating human institutions and remedying their imperfections.”
— from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

By her contemplative action, by her ardent desire to learn and to discover, by the fruitfulness of her knowledge, and her resulting need to produce, the Soul, her totality having become an object of contemplation, gave birth to some other object; just as science, on fructifying, by instruction begets a lesser science in the soul of the young disciple who possesses the images of all things, but only in the state of obscure theories, of feeble speculations, which are incapable of self-sufficiency.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 2 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

[130] was in keeping with the supposed character of this region of the Moon that Riccioli named two portions of it the Land of Hoar Frost and the Land of Drought.
— from Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss

We need the dam for power for our factory, and the people don’t really need the park.
— from The Motor Girls on Crystal Bay; or, The Secret of the Red Oar by Margaret Penrose

The Cahuillos or Cawios reside 'near the Pacific, between the sources of the San Gabriel and Santa Anna.' Ludewig's Ab.
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 1, Wild Tribes The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 1 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

[680] They show that the author in his exegesis of this Epistle is imbued with the same idea as in the Commentary on Romans, namely, that Paul exalts (in Luther’s
— from Luther, vol. 1 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Refuse not to pray for the soul of "REGINALD TRACY."
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds