If it were only a question of the partner of her youth, her choice would soon be made; but a master for life is not so easily chosen; and since the two cannot be separated, people must often wait and sacrifice their youth before they find the man with whom they could spend their life.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My gracious sovereign, now in Devonshire, As I by friends am well advertised, Sir Edward Courtney and the haughty prelate, Bishop of Exeter, his elder brother, With many moe confederates, are in arms.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Wherever we went it was our custom to examine everything about us, and consequently we searched every corner and nook in our quarters; and so it happened, as we were looking for a proper spot to erect our altar, that two of our men, one of whom was Yañez our carpenter, found the traces of a doorway in the wall of one of the apartments, which had been carefully walled up and neatly plastered over; and as we all very well knew that the treasure of Motecusuma's father was secreted somewhere in our quarters, these two men soon conjectured that this doorway might be the entrance to the treasury.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

I hate to hear of women on board, or to see them on board; and no ship under my command shall ever convey a family of ladies anywhere, if I can help it.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

The first is important only when we have to infer some earlier condition, and we are likely to commit injustice if we judge the conduct of the wife by the conduct of the widow.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

So exquisitely clear and pure is this wonderful atmosphere that every column of the noble structure was discernible through the telescope, and even the smaller ruins about it assumed some semblance of shape.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The man with calm, gentle eyes listened to me serenely, even courteously, and paid remarkable attention.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

He was instantly seized, examined, condemned, and beheaded, in one of the suburbs of Constantinople, with a precipitation which disappointed the clemency of the emperor.
— 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

But, aside from such exceptional cases as Gilbert v. Stone, the two tests agree, and the difference need not be considered in what follows.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

"I don't understand," said the Wizard when Ozana had finished, "why you should be living alone on the top of this mountain in which such evil creatures as the Mimics dwell."
— from The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow

They stood in the road gaping at him, with that steady, unblinking stare English children and French grown-ups have, while the brown image sat motionless in the car, as scornfully oblivious of his critics as if he'd been the idol he looked.
— from Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Such electrically charged atoms were called “ions” and their existence had been suspected since Faraday’s day.
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) Atomic Weights; Energy; Electricity by Isaac Asimov

“A couple of changes of everything is stacks,” he said encouragingly, clearing a space for packing.
— from We of the Never-Never by Jeannie Gunn

'L'Autriche considère la cause de la France comme la sienne, et contribuera au succès de ses armes dans les limites du possible.'
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron

[124] Extractus acu et super ungue positus, movet se si solis etiam calore adjuvetur.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 1 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

Believers in "the hidden hand," which is supposed to paralyse our military efforts, are divided in opinion as to whether this cryptic member is most actively employed by Lord HALDANE, Sir WILLIAM ROBERTSON or Sir EYRE CROWE, Assistant-Secretary to the Foreign Office.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 28, 1917 by Various

‘Parson be in a powerful rage,’ he said; ‘but dancing be downright wicked, that’s a fact;’ and he added, with a perplexed look, as if communing with his own thoughts, ‘What shall I say to your Uncle Mark?’ Madeline seemed to muse for some moments, then, as if struck by a sudden inspiration, she exclaimed— ‘Come along, Uncle Luke—let’s go home.’
— from The Martyrdom of Madeline by Robert Williams Buchanan

He shapèd erst for the sons of men, heaven their roof, holy Creator; the middle world he, mankind’s sovereign, eternal captain, afterwards created, the land for men Lord Almighty.
— from Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle