We saw the splendid review, we saw the white-moustached old Crimean soldier, Canrobert, Marshal of France, we saw—well, we saw every thing, and then we went home satisfied.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

Sure, sure, if stedfast meaning, If single thought could save, The world might end to-morrow, You should not see the grave.
— from A Shropshire Lad by A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman

DEAR DOCTOR, If I was disposed to be critical, I should say this house of Cameron is too near the lake, which approaches, on one side, to within six or seven yards of the window.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I am not well enough read to say that war-galleys were never rowed by slaves in the Middle Ages, but the only doubtful allusion to such a class that I have met with is in one passage of Muntaner, where he says, describing the Neapolitan and Catalan fleets drawing together for action, that the gangs of the galleys had to toil like "forçats" (p. 313).
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

By liquifying the evidence of the prejudiced books and of the prejudiced parliamentary witnesses and stirring the whole together and pouring it into my own (prejudiced) moulds, I have got at the truth of that puzzling South African situation, which is this: 1.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

These two ends, therefore, are the supreme good and the supreme evil; and, as I have [Pg 294] said, those who have in this vain life professed the study of wisdom have been at great pains to discover these ends, and to obtain the supreme good and avoid the supreme evil in this life.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

He received his early training at the College of Soreze, Tarn, which was managed by the Oratorians.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

At the outbreak of the Revolution he organized the Cherokee and other southern tribes, with the white loyalists, against the Americans, and was largely responsible for the Indian outrages along the southern border.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Nestor's son Pisistratus at once offered his hand to each of them, and seated them on some soft sheepskins that were lying on the sands near his father and his brother Thrasymedes.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

Sleep thou who art born to sleep, or do as thou wilt, for I will act as I think most consistent with my character."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Yet it is all here," and she tapped with her finger on her white forehead over which the golden hair curled crisply.
— from Servants of Sin: A Romance by John Bloundelle-Burton

"And the more, that I was reminded of the fate of the daughters of English country curates, even at this day; of 'gentle blude,' many times, born and educated ladies, they are subjected, frequently, through life, to toil and suffering that would excuse their envying the fate of a mere kitchen-drudge!"
— from The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Margaret C. (Margaret Cockburn) Conkling

My arms were tightly bound, the door was well secured, the window barred, and a gaoler, wide-awake and armed, sat between me and it.
— from My Sword's My Fortune: A Story of Old France by Herbert Hayens

She remembered she had said something about the way his hair looked with the moon shining on it; perhaps he had taken offence at that; the remark was entirely complimentary, but sometimes people are touchy about such things; still that was not the least like Cousin Will.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips

His mind frequently adverted to totally different subjects; but still he sat by Lady Hamlet Vernon's side the whole evening, or walked with her about the rooms.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

But some of the people on the hills, when they heard he had been seen, set out of their doors at night milk and cakes; and in the morning, sometimes, they would be gone, and taken as if by a human being, and not an animal.
— from Warlock o' Glenwarlock: A Homely Romance by George MacDonald

The jest, the tale, the toast, the glee, All took a sober tone; We spoke of the babe upstairs, as we Held festival for him alone.
— from Poems of Henry Timrod; with Memoir by Henry Timrod

A groan and a heavy sigh now proved the fallibility of Pothecary Knaggs; and the lieutenant’s superior treatment was extolled by the whole board.
— from Personal Sketches of His Own Times, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Barrington, Jonah, Sir