“If this be thy hard fate indeed, Ah well may’st thou repine: The sympathy I give, I need— The poet’s doom is thine.
— from American Scenery, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Land, lake, and river illustrations of transatlantic nature by Nathaniel Parker Willis

The mother of the chief saw that, let the world wink itself to blindness, let it hide the roots of the money-plant in layer upon layer of social ascent, the flower for which an earl will give his daughter, has for the soil it grows in, not the dead, but the diseased and dying, of loathsome bodies and souls of God's men and women and children, which the grower of it has helped to make such as they are.
— from What's Mine's Mine — Complete by George MacDonald

The old adage that “silence is golden” is not to be applied in all cases.
— from Kentucky's Famous Feuds and Tragedies Authentic History of the World Renowned Vendettas of the Dark and Bloody Ground by Charles Gustavus Mutzenberg

It was a very shaky shot I got in next time.
— from Two Dianas in Somaliland: The Record of a Shooting Trip by Agnes Herbert

(The President’s speech was originally {364} more warlike than was necessary, but I succeeded in getting it neutralized; this between us; but it was lucky; for) Congress is certainly peaceably disposed....
— from The Life of Albert Gallatin by Henry Adams

Any possible course, moreover, open to English statesmanship involves gigantic inconvenience, not to say tremendous perils.
— from England's Case Against Home Rule by Albert Venn Dicey

, NOW STANT I GRAVE IN NAPLYS THE CITE, THAT IN MY TYME WRAIT NOTABILL WARKIS THRE; OF PASTURAGE, AND EIK OF HUSBANDRY, AND DOUCHTY CHIFTANYS FULL OF CHEVALRY.
— from The Æneid of Virgil Translated Into Scottish Verse. Volumes 1 & 2 by Virgil