They then left him; and Mr Tow-wouse sent to a clergyman to come and administer his good offices to the soul of poor Joseph, since the surgeon despaired of making any successful applications to his body.
— from Joseph Andrews, Vol. 1 by Henry Fielding

I hope in unbroken solitude to achieve continuous divine communion.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

So the two were married with the most splendid rejoicings, and when they had passed some time at court they went home in a ship to the boy’s own country.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Not having found Kurágin in Turkey, Prince Andrew did not think it necessary to rush back to Russia after him, but all the same he knew that however long it might be before he met Kurágin, despite his contempt for him and despite all the proofs he deduced to convince himself that it was not worth stooping to a conflict with him—he knew that when he did meet him he would not be able to resist calling him out, any more than a ravenous man can help snatching at food.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Baber mentions them several times, and counts their language as one of the dozen that were spoken at Kabul in his time.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

The Master said, 'There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower!
— from The Analects of Confucius (from the Chinese Classics) by Confucius

They had received a wire from London, in answer to Lord Godalming’s telegraphed request, asking us to show them any civility in their power.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

But the constant chorus of the orchards and hedges had shrunk to a casual evensong from a few yet unwearied performers; the robin was beginning to assert himself once more; and there was a feeling in the air of change and departure.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Unless the person for whom the tea is given is such a celebrity that the "tea" becomes a "reception," the hostess does not stand at the door, but merely near it so that anyone coming in may easily find her.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

When her dolls were bad now, she shook them and called them “Indecent!
— from The Squirrel-Cage by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

In those days such terms as calorics, protein, carbohydrates were never used and need never be used when speaking of oatmeal.
— from Oat Meal: The War Winner by James Ritchie Grieve

It had been the sheerest folly born of madness to suppose that anybody could stand against him.
— from Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) by William MacLeod Raine

“Nice thing to say to a chap who’d never kicked a football in his life except around the street!
— from The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

Nothing could make any speech for Slavery tolerable to me; but when I think how much opinions are determined by the influences about us, so that a change of birth and education might have made the Abolitionist a partisan of Slavery and the partisan of Slavery an Abolitionist, I feel, that, while always unrelenting toward the wrong, we cannot [Pg 265] be insensible to individual merits.
— from Charles Sumner: his complete works, volume 20 (of 20) by Charles Sumner

“In one word, sir,” said Mr. Pickwick, “is my servant right in suspecting that a certain Captain Fitz-Marshall is in the habit of visiting here?
— from The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club, v. 1 (of 2) by Charles Dickens