He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“It is the law,” remarked the ancient clerk, turning his surprised spectacles upon him.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Many of the sailors affirmed that the monster could not pass there, "that he was too big for that!" The 6th of July, about three o'clock in the afternoon, the Abraham Lincoln, at fifteen miles to the south, doubled the solitary island, this lost rock at the extremity of the American continent, to which some Dutch sailors gave the name of their native town, Cape Horn.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Fearing that Marco's imprisonment might endure for many years, or, worse still, that he might not live to quit it (for many assured them that numbers of Venetian prisoners had been kept in Genoa a score of years before obtaining liberty); seeing too no prospect of being able to ransom him,—a thing which they had attempted often and by various channels,—they took counsel together, and came to the conclusion that Messer Nicolo, who, old as he was, was still hale and vigorous, should take to himself a new wife.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Is sapiens qui se ad casus accommodet omnes; / Stultus pugnat in adversis ire natator aquis —He is a wise man who adapts himself to all contingencies; the fool struggles like a swimmer against the stream.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

He was thinking if he could only get there and cross the river into Canada, he could take his time about getting to Montreal.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

What have they all come to do, here in the market-place?"
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the territory of Mutina fire issues from the ground on the days that are consecrated to Vulcan 730 . It is stated by some authors, that if a burning body falls on the fields below Aricia 731 , the ground is set on fire; and that the stones in the territory of the Sabines and of the Sidicini 732 , if they be oiled, burn with flame.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The yolks of 4 eggs, 8 tablespoonfuls salad oil, 4 tablespoonfuls white vinegar, 1 teaspoonful salt, 2 teaspoonfuls sugar, from 1 to 2 tablespoonfuls French mustard and ½ pint whipped cream or 3 tablespoonfuls condensed milk which is not sweet; put the yolks in a small saucepan and stir them to a cream; then slowly add, stirring constantly, 4 tablespoonfuls oil; when this is well mixed add the 4 spoonfuls vinegar, set the saucepan in a vessel of boiling water and stir over the fire till contents of saucepan begin to thicken; then instantly remove and continue the stirring until 250 cold; then slowly add the remaining 4 spoonfuls oil, stirring constantly; next add the salt and sugar; then the mustard and lastly the cream or condensed milk.
— from Desserts and Salads by Gesine Lemcke

And I cannot help thinking that Chellalu is very like her song; here is an intelligible bit, a line or two in order, then a cheerful tumble up, and an irresponsible conclusion.
— from Lotus Buds by Amy Carmichael

When, however, we find conjoined to this criticism an 113 equally sustained contention that the philosophic conception of reality must be based on an exclusively intellectual criterion, a criterion belonging to and confined to theory, we have a situation that is thought-provoking.
— from The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought by John Dewey

And they went forth, and preached every where, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word with signs following .
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

As you can guess, it would never do to let the guardian of the opal marry a white man, so, as desired by Don Hypolito, I was decoyed from Tlatonac, and carried to this frightful place.
— from The Harlequin Opal: A Romance. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Fergus Hume

While Marcello was speaking, the old Uzcoque had had time to collect his thoughts, and call to mind the numerous snares and devices by which the Venetian tribunals obtained confessions from their prisoners.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 by Various

And there was no need for Père Michaux to parade the close ties and net-work of communication which prevailed in the ancient Church to which he belonged; the chaplain knew them without the telling.
— from Anne: A Novel by Constance Fenimore Woolson

“I’m sick of this place—not the place itself but the people that’s in it, them with their bitin’ tongues and cuttin’ talk, them that won’t let those that do them no harm a-be.
— from The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill