Ef I could save up enough to send a man to do my share of the fightin', I should be proud to do it.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

To be out of the house late at night or sitting up, except to study, are imprudences she can not allow herself.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

The house was thrown into an uproar, the lieutenant of the guard came, and after enjoining secrecy upon everybody, they sent me away.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

She was so utterly exhausted that she had not strength to speak louder.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

But as there was some space in this volume to spare, p. ix and a very pleasant method of filling it suggested itself, a threefold supplement is here printed, [0] which may be of some use even to serious students, and is certainly very good literature.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

And after him Erginus and Nauplius and Euphemus started up, eager to steer.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

This is particularly observable in their eating: though placed at separate tables, and no individual taking the slightest notice of any other, they all seem to have exactly the same usages, exactly the same gastronomic tastes.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The boy gives a gasp of satisfaction, and murmurs “Thank you,” as he makes a still unsuccessful effort to scramble to his feet.
— from Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories by Kate Upson Clark

If we are willing to look only a little way into the great question, if we are willing to accept a little for the whole, content because it is manifestly part of the final knowledge, and because we know that final knowledge rests with God alone, we shall understand enough to save us from much sorrow and painful incompleteness.
— from The Untroubled Mind by Herbert J. (Herbert James) Hall

They pour scorn upon eyes that see not and a mouth that cannot speak; they despise a work of art or of thought for being finished and motionless; as if the images of the retina were less idols than those of the sculptor, and as if words, of all things, were not conventional signs, grotesque counterfeits, dead messengers, like fallen leaves, from the dumb soul.
— from Soliloquies in England, and Later Soliloquies by George Santayana

She sat up, exasperated, to stare at him.
— from Penrod by Booth Tarkington

China is more like a wise man, she understands everything that she adopts.
— from Quaint Korea by Louise Jordan Miln

It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon.—
— from Pearls of Thought by Maturin Murray Ballou