After what is past, sir, can you expect I should take you upon your word?”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Kentucky home, with wife and children, and indulgent owners; St. Clare home, with all its refinements and splendors; the golden head of Eva, with its saint-like eyes; the proud, gay, handsome, seemingly careless, yet ever-kind St. Clare; hours of ease and indulgent leisure,—all gone! and in place thereof, what remains?
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

—Pues [1] se compran, ya en las tiendas de departamentos, ya en casas especiales, llamadas mueblerías.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

ese madrileño.—Entonces veo que llama a unos músicos que había alrededor de Santa Cecilia, y ellos pasan a la portería.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

2. ¿Qué son Carlos y Enrique?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

Trust in an overruling Providence, and success will soon crown your efforts.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

"I don't doubt, dear sister, but you will have grace to preserve your virtue against all trials; and I beg you earnestly to pray I may be enabled to preserve mine; for truly it is very severely attacked by more than one; but I hope I shall copy your example, and that of Joseph my namesake, and maintain my virtue against all temptations."
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

In a few moments, she recovered herself, and smiling faintly through her tears, said, 'Can you excuse this weakness?
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“My dear, I shall call you Eugénie, and shall adore you,” Miss Clinton continued.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

Something impalpable, something ineffable, something strange as death, spectral, cold, yet exciting, something that seems to creep into it out of the distant past and to whisper: “I am here.
— from The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens

The motion aboute setting forth y e fishing ship (caled y e
— from Bradford's History of 'Plimoth Plantation' From the Original Manuscript. With a Report of the Proceedings Incident to the Return of the Manuscript to Massachusetts by William Bradford

“Many people shall go and say, Come ye,” etc.
— from His Glorious Appearing: An Exposition of Matthew Twenty-Four by James White

Should success crown your enterprise, America will assuredly evolve into a center from which waves of spiritual power will emanate, and the throne of the Kingdom of God will, in the plenitude of its majesty and glory, be firmly established.”
— from The Advent of Divine Justice by Effendi Shoghi

It has a large seating capacity, yet every Sunday it is filled.
— from Peculiarities of American Cities by Willard W. Glazier

The fugitives from other countries gathered more and more to Switzerland, and the excitement roused in that country by Mazzini's expedition to Savoy led to the foundation of a society called Young Europe.
— from The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany With Some Examination of the Previous Thirty-three Years by C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

Now, in this telephone conversation, when you talked to your son, can you explain a little bit to the Commission how that is?
— from Warren Commission (01 of 26): Hearings Vol. I (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

“Oh! yes,” snarled Clapart, “you expect fine things of him; but, mark my words, there’ll be squabbles wherever he goes.”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac