Master of T’ung-t’ien Chiao-chu, 133 – 134 Huo Ti . See Shên Nung Huo-tê Hsing-chün .
— from Myths and Legends of China by E. T. C. (Edward Theodore Chalmers) Werner

As some nations have their wives in common, and some others have every one his own, is not the same seen among beasts, and marriages better kept than ours?
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Them tommy shops is very delicate things; they won’t stand no handling, I can tell you that.”
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Five or six years later I should not have had so much wisdom or folly; but it was decreed I was never to love but once in my life, and that another person was to have the first and last sighs of my heart.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Their faces were not made for wrinkles, their Pure blood to stagnate, their great hearts to fail; The blank grey was not made to blast their hair, But like the climes that know nor snow nor hail
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Could I have sent a few happy lines, they should not have been wanting, but nothing of that nature was ever in my power.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

But I lost the thread there, and dozed off to slumber, thinking about what a pity it was that men with such superb strength—strength enabling them to stand up cased in cruelly burdensome iron and drenched with perspiration, and hack and batter and bang each other for six hours on a stretch—should not have been born at a time when they could put it to some useful purpose.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

They passed on steadily westward, hour after hour, with the current of this great stream, among little islands covered with timber; passed along bars of white sand and flats of hardwood; beyond forest-covered knolls, in the openings of which one might now and again see great vistas of a scenery now peaceful and now bold, with turreted knolls and sweeping swards of green, as though some noble house of old England were set back secluded within these wide and well-kept grounds.
— from The Mississippi Bubble How the Star of Good Fortune Rose and Set and Rose Again, by a Woman's Grace, for One John Law of Lauriston by Emerson Hough

"I'll introduce 'em to something new," he grinned, then was suddenly worried.
— from Alien Minds by E. Everett (Edward Everett) Evans

But she never had anything worse than words to dread.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In the meantime both his uncle and Sir Nathaniel had thanked her for the invitation—of which, however, they said they were unable to avail themselves.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

'M. de Châteauvieux sent me to you at once, that you should not hear in any other way.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

"I should not have said that unless I had known it to be a lie," continued the latter, "because I dislike being kicked.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley