She is nearly always alone, and the book she is perpetually reading is always opened at the same page, and she is sure to look up as you pass.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

In the station I purposely remained in the toilet room till the second bell rang, and while I was making my way to my compartment, I was oppressed by a feeling as though I were covered all over with stolen things.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is not usual with us corrupted wretches of civilization to find gentlemen like yourself, possessors, as you are, of immense fortune—at least, so it is said—and I beg you to observe that I do not inquire, I merely repeat;—it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world.”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I shall receive nothing, unless I see it plainly revealed in my Bible.'
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

I turned back away from the park and struck into Park Road, intending to skirt the park, went along under the shelter of the terraces, and got a view of this stationary, howling Martian from the direction of St. John’s Wood.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

For thus, I imagine, does Scipio speak in the fifth book: “For as a fair voyage is the object of the master of a ship, the health of his patient the aim of a physician, and victory that of a general, so the happiness of his fellow-citizens is the proper study of the ruler of a commonwealth; that they may be stable in power, rich in resources, widely known in reputation, and honorable through their virtue.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pakálig batu ang lungag sa ilagà, Put rocks into the rat hole.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

When it wants to be on the right side, it preaches revolution, it is democratic in order to escape being beaten, and royalist so that it may not have to fight.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

a man of miseries; Propp'd on a staff, a beggar old and bare In rags dishonest fluttering with the air! Now pass'd the rugged road, they journey down The cavern'd way descending to the town, Where, from the rock, with liquid drops distils A limpid fount; that spread in parting rills Its current thence to serve the city brings; An useful work, adorn'd by ancient kings.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

Looking up with some indignation, Paul recognized in one of them the boy who had cheated him out of the oysters.
— from Paul Prescott's Charge by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

In “Winter’s Tale” (ii. 1), Hermione consoles herself in the thought— “There’s some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.”
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

“Kindly wait till I have tied this and put my studs in,” Peter Ruff interrupted.
— from Peter Ruff and the Double Four by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Their successors in public responsibility, if not their equals in public regard and confidence, were already upon the stage preparing for, and destined to act in, the bloodiest and most memorable of civil struggles.
— from Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 by James Gillespie Blaine

258 n. 2 Egghiou, a district of Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258 Eggs eaten by sower to make hemp grow tall, i. 138; of raven in homoeopathic magic, i. 154; or egg-shells, painted, in spring ceremonies, ii. 63, 65; collected on May Day, ii. 64, 65; yellow and red, fastened to Midsummer trees, ii. 65; collected at spring ceremonies, ii. 78; begged for by singers or maskers at Whitsuntide, ii. 81, 84, 85, 91 sq. ; in purificatory rite, ii. 109; offered at entering a strange land, iii. 110; reason for breaking shells of, iii. 129 sq. ; reason for not eating, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer

He was too honest to judge soundly and to act rightly Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles the Prince Borghese Hero of great ambition and small capacity: La Fayette How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance How much people talk about what they do not comprehend If Bonaparte is fond of flattery—pays for it like a real Emperor Indifference about futurity Indifference of the French people to all religion Invention of new tortures and improved racks Irresolution and weakness in a commander operate the same Its pretensions rose in proportion to the condescensions Jealous of his wife as a lover of his mistress Justice is invoked in vain when the criminal is powerful Labour as much as possible in the dark Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes Marble lives longer than man May change his habitations six times in the month—yet be home Men and women, old men and children are no more Military diplomacy Misfortunes and proscription would not only inspire courage More vain than ambitious
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

"Chesterton," he said, "go up to Mr. —— and ask him with my compliments to see that the trouble with the sink is put right immediately."
— from Gilbert Keith Chesterton by Maisie Ward

His athletic frame, his hands like an old soldier’s, his broad, strong shoulders were those of the Caryatides which the architects of the Middle Ages introduced into some Italian palaces, remotely imitated in those of the front of the Porte-Saint-Martin theatre.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

The West-Saxon was the land of Alfred, and the royal cultivation of its dialect, supreme in purity as the realm stood in power, rendered it the standard language which we now call Anglo-Saxon.
— from Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli