‘Such is my intention, Sir,’ replied Mr. Tupman warmly.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

For did not Abel hope to call upon the name of the Lord God when his sacrifice is mentioned in Scripture as having been accepted by God?
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

I must have decent clothes becoming my station; I must, it seemed, put out my washing, and also pay for my four annual journeys between Horton Lodge and home; but with strict attention to economy, surely twenty pounds, or little more, would cover those expenses, and then there would be thirty for the bank, or little less: what a valuable addition to our stock!
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

"You see, it made it seem comic: and in a sense I did not belong to myself at that minute.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And first of all the sun, which has the chief rank among all the stars, is moved in such a manner that it fills the whole earth with its light, and illuminates alternately one part of the earth, while it leaves the other in darkness.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Yet sometimes I thought I saw it shoot three or four Degrees farther, but with a Light so very faint that I could scarce perceive it, and suspected it might (in some measure at least) arise from some other cause than the two streams did.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

To begin with, I will tell her that she is mistaken in supposing that I am in love with her.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And so it makes it so rotten difficult to get up a difficult plan.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

It has sown its martyrs, it should reap its saints, and praise God daily for having hidden Himself from man.
— from De Profundis by Oscar Wilde

After stating some intervening matters, I shall return to this subject.
— from Memoirs of the Reign of King George the Third, Volume 2 (of 4) by Horace Walpole

so that it went to our hearts, asking your pardon, to hear her say it.” Montriveau, in spite of all his firmness, turned pale at those few words.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Looking at this face so mundane, so intellectually mundane, I see why a young man of refined mind—a bachelor who spends at least a pound a day on his pleasures, and in whose library are found some few volumes of modern poetry—seeks his ideal in a woman of thirty.
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

'Tis best to front such things at once.--Let me see it, man, I say!"
— from Philip Augustus; or, The Brothers in Arms by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

And the luxury in which she is maintained is so entirely a symbol of social position that the man comes instinctively to believe that he is himself enjoying society when he worries and over-works in order to provide jewelry and funds for the elaborate entertainments of his wife Just as the wife of the millionaire has her place arranged to suit 572 herself, so the modest townswoman does in her small home, and so also the wife of the day labourer, in her still narrower surroundings.
— from The Americans by Hugo Münsterberg

SYN: Involve, mean, indicate, suggest, hint, import, denote, include. ANT: Express, declare, state, pronounce.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

Highest and midmost was descried The royal banner, floating wide; The staff, a pine tree strong and straight, Pitched deeply in a massive stone, Which still in memory is shown.
— from Walks near Edinburgh by Margaret Warrender

Here spring is merging into summer, and we are in time to see the ceremony which closes the wheat harvest.
— from History of California by Helen Elliott Bandini

‘Then you can send it me; I should be pleased to trust you.’
— from The Wrong Box by Robert Louis Stevenson