'There is not,' said Mr Podsnap, flushing angrily, 'there is not a country in the world, sir, where so noble a provision is made for the poor as in this country.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

It is singular that Gibbon, who in the fifteenth note of this chapter reproaches d'Anville with being fond of supposing new and perhaps imaginary measures, has here adopted the peculiar measurement which d'Anville has assigned to the stadium.
— 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

As to the connexion, that is made by the relation of cause and effect, we shall have occasion afterwards to examine it to the bottom, and therefore shall not at present insist upon it.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

The swallow's warning voice was heard again: 'My friends, the product of that deadly grain, Seize now, and pull it root by root, Or surely you'll repent its fruit.'
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

“Your affectionate “HELEN.” “Howards End, “Sunday. “Dearest, dearest Meg,—I do not know what you will say: Paul and I are in love—the younger son who only came here Wednesday.” H2 anchor CHAPTER II Margaret glanced at her sister’s note and pushed it over the breakfast-table to her aunt.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

Sintákun nímu ang pasul inigkubit sa isdà, The moment the fish bites, pull the line with a jerk.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Yet even that ingenious geographer is too fond of supposing new, and perhaps imaginary measures, for the purpose of rendering ancient writers as accurate as himself.
— 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

It cheers my aged Heart to see So numerous a Progeny; I find by you, that ’tis Heaven’s will That knavery should flourish still; You have docility and wit, And Fools were never wanting yet.
— from A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times. by Henry Sampson

In litore est Algier , emporium satis nobile, at piratica infame, Christianis mancipiis refertissimum; urbs ipsa moenibus, arcibus ac tormentis bellicis adeo munita, ut inexpugnabilis credatur.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

A typical series of consecutive call-groups in S. sila (KU 91852; Tape No. 385) has 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 2 notes per call-group; secondary notes are present in only half of the call-groups.
— from Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Smilisca by William Edward Duellman

Each night he returned to his bed so tired he could not lie flat enough, but happy in the knowledge that some needed and permanent improvement had that day been made.
— from The Captain of the Gray-Horse Troop by Hamlin Garland

The Hydrographic Office gives each wreck and derelict a serial number and plots its position on a map.
— from Derelicts: An Account of Ships Lost at Sea in General Commercial Traffic And a Brief History of Blockade Runners Stranded Along the North Carolina Coast, 1861-1865 by James Sprunt

We must not forget, that a priest here prefers his country to his religion; and that the Moslems, whose alliance he seeks, were still numerous and powerful in the state of Sicily.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Edward Gibbon