"For it sufficeth enough, a naked intent direct unto God without any other cause than Himself.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

That Count of Monte Cristo is an original, who loves to look at the sky even at night.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He had gone away rejected and mortified—disappointed in a very sanguine hope, after a series of what appeared to him strong encouragement; and not only losing the right lady, but finding himself debased to the level of a very wrong one.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

¿Sabe usted quién será el alcalde nuevo?
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

Whenever it is said that a certain thing is essential to liability, but that it is conclusively presumed from something else, there is always ground for suspicion that the essential clement is to be found in that something else, and not in what is said to be presumed from it.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

His sister Eulogia, a niece, and two female cousins, conspired against him; another niece, Mary queen of Bulgaria, negotiated his ruin with the sultan of Egypt; and, in the public eye, their treason was consecrated as the most sublime virtue.
— 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

"We might say a great many other things, which make you an enemy to the Great Spirit, and also to your own brothers,—but we have said enough, and now renounce you as a chief, and from this time you are forbid to act as such.
— from Indian Biography; Vol. 2 (of 2) Or, An Historical Account of Those Individuals Who Have Been Distinguished among the North American Natives as Orators, Warriors, Statesmen, and Other Remarkable Characters by B. B. (Benjamin Bussey) Thatcher

Therefore, it must be somewhat else, and not the Figure, that stayeth the Board of Ebany above water, of which Figure the only Effect is the retardment of the Motion, according to which it descendeth more slowly than the Ball.
— from A Discourse Presented to the Most Serene Don Cosimo II., Great Duke of Tuscany, Concerning the Natation of Bodies Vpon, and Submersion In, the Water. by Galileo Galilei

All the symptoms enumerated are not present in each case; the most constant are the vomiting and the colic.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

The cavaliers communed for a moment apart, when one, advancing singly, exclaimed: “Although no law of chivalry obliges us to risk the loss of a prize, when clearly in our power, yet we willingly grant, as a courtesy, what we might refuse as a right.
— from Wolfert's Roost, and Miscellanies by Washington Irving

From the time of my entrance into this Court, to that of which I am writing, I had never been informed that it was incumbent upon me to receive the king's equerries at the teatable; yet I observed that they always came to Mrs. Schwellenberg, and that she expected them so entirely as never to make tea till their arrival.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

Of the girl who had talked so eagerly and naturally to Evelyn on the terrace there was hardly a trace; Madge’s face had grown nearly as hard as her mother’s.
— from The Angel of Pain by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

"I shall execute a new will to-morrow morning, Herrick, and I shall leave this place to you.
— from Mohawks: A Novel. Volume 3 of 3 by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

Cries of astonishment, stupefaction, even a note of fear, went up from several throats.
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge