That's like my brother's fault; if it confess / A natural guiltiness, such as his is, / Let it not sound a thought upon your tongue / Against my brother's life.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

His disciples, however, sat around him in long night-watches, and waited anxiously to see if he would awake, and speak again, and recover from his affliction.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The stays are... holes in length, one quarter of a hole in breadth at the bottom, and one sixth in thickness at the top.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

After they were gone Mr. Creed and I spent an hour in looking over the account which he do intend to pass in our office for his lending moneys, which I did advise about and approve or disapprove of as I saw cause.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

If, then, sound health is the foundation of success and happiness in life, how important it is that we should study the laws of health, which is but another expression for the laws of nature!
— from The Art of Money Getting; Or, Golden Rules for Making Money by P. T. (Phineas Taylor) Barnum

Then he let it go again and said, with a sigh that came up from the bottom of his heart: “Oh Arsinoe, my sweet Arsinoe, how I love you!”
— from The Emperor — Complete by Georg Ebers

Economy; frugality ; the ACQUIRING, SAVING , and HOARDING instinct; LAYING UP OF SURPLUS , and allowing nothing to be WASTED ; desire to POSSESS and OWN ; the MINE AND THINE FEELING ; claiming of one’s own things; love of TRADING AND AMASSING PROPERTY .
— from The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by O. S. (Orson Squire) Fowler

Turning to look behind while "sitting-easy" one day I rested my right hand on his back behind the saddle and he immediately lashed out furiously with both hind legs.
— from Driftwood Spars The Stories of a Man, a Boy, a Woman, and Certain Other People Who Strangely Met Upon the Sea of Life by Percival Christopher Wren

Michonnet the spy, and her imbecile lover; Mme.
— from Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. by Margaret Fuller

“It has such a horribly ironclad look,” said I. “Then why make her sign it?”
— from Anthony the Absolute by Samuel Merwin

Stately, substantial, and handsome, it looks as if it had been begun and completed in a day.
— from The Englishwoman in America by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird