“I can’t say I did either, sir.”
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Listen, scoundrel, if I had reckoned on any one then, it would have been on you, not on Dmitri, and I swear I did expect some wickedness from you ... at the time....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
In the eventful period of the siege and defence of Antioch, the crusaders were alternately exalted by victory or sunk in despair; either swelled with plenty or emaciated with hunger.
— 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
Monachi sese putant prophetare ex Deo, et qui solitariam agunt vitam, quum sit instinctu daemonum; et sic falluntur fatidicae; a malo genio habent, quas putant a Deo, et sic enthusiastae.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
At times he grew breathless, so individualized did every second become, so fraught with haste.
— from The Seventh Noon by Frederick Orin Bartlett
"Oh, whatever shall I do?" exclaimed Sammie.
— from Sammie and Susie Littletail by Howard Roger Garis
The falling of a piece of drugget, used to exclude light from one of the windows of the hall, enabled Maskelyne to see Ira Davenport eject some of the musical instruments from the cabinet, and re-secure himself with the ropes.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans
He is an atheist, a degenerate, and—one of the most popular 'Souls' in decadent English society—just to have a look at the fat smooth-faced sensualist and voluptuary whose reputation for shameless vice makes him the pride and joy of Upper-Ten Jezebels will help you along like a gale of wind.
— from Modernities by Horace Barnett Samuel
"Si liber aliquis feram forestæ ad cursum impulerit, siue casu, siue præhabita voluntate, ita vt cursu celeri cogatur fera anhelare, decem solidis regi emendet, si illiberalis dupliciter emendet, si seruus careat corio.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison
" "Well, I can't say I do exactly," said Joe; "
— from Wild Western Scenes A Narrative of Adventures in the Western Wilderness, Wherein the Exploits of Daniel Boone, the Great American Pioneer are Particularly Described by J. B. (John Beauchamp) Jones
And now, Sir, I do entreat Senators,—I hope they will pardon me; I mean to say only what it belongs to a Senator to say,—I do entreat Senators not to lose th
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 18 (of 20) by Charles Sumner
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