As soon as the great black velvet pall outside my little window was shot with gray, I got up and went downstairs; every board upon the way, and every crack in every board calling after me, “Stop thief!” and “Get up, Mrs. Joe!”
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

My conscience and my intelligence tell me that the very best thing I could do now would be to deliver a farewell lecture to the boys, to say my last word to them, to bless them, and give up my post to a man younger and stronger than me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Conscience and reason tell me that the best thing I could do now is to read my farewell lecture to the boys, give them my last word, bless them and give up my place to someone younger and stronger than I.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

This justifies the high providence of God, who, though he command us temperance, justice, continence, yet pours out before us, even to a profuseness, all desirable things, and gives us minds that can wander beyond all limit and satiety.
— from Areopagitica A Speech for the Liberty of Unlicensed Printing to the Parliament of England by John Milton

There was in those days a wise man, very skilful in physic, and renowned therein, who had with his own proconsular hand put the Agonistic garland upon my distempered head, but not as a physician: for this disease Thou only curest, who resistest the proud, and givest grace to the humble.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

We went to Kansas as individuals; personal friends outside that association gave us money to go and contributed the funds to start a paper.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

In order that a good understanding might be established between him and his subjects, they should acquaint him with the place where their monarch resided, that he might pay his respects to him, and make the necessary disclosures.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

It lies just as little in the realm of possibility, that a morality without reflection, and a homely ingenuousness, such as mark a nation’s childhood, should be forced upon a time in which reflection has utterly eaten out all immediateness, and unconscious moral simplicity, as that a grown up man should became a child again in the natural way.
— from A History of Philosophy in Epitome by Albert Schwegler

Who would be the best authority to check our disk operation theory and give us more details on directional control?
— from The Flying Saucers are Real by Donald E. (Donald Edward) Keyhoe

The anthropologist gives us masses of information touching the religious duties of all sorts and conditions of men.
— from A Handbook of Ethical Theory by George Stuart Fullerton

When the Almighty give us music he more than made up for makin’ us subject to toothache, didn’t he.”
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

" In his haste to obtain results as soon as possible, he finally shook up and ground together a large-sized pinch from each of the three materials, producing thereby a grayish, unpromising mixture, decidedly too rich in both the charcoal and sulphur.
— from As It Was in the Beginning by Philip Verrill Mighels

Cromwell 'is a lion's whelp—from the prey thou art gone up, my son—and unto Him shall the gathering of the people be.'"
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

But the next time he writes a Four-Act Comedy he must try and give us more than one Act without any tea in it.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, May 13, 1914 by Various

61 On the growth of plants in various gases, especially substituting carbonic oxide, hydrogen and light carburetted hydrogen, for the nitrogen of the air, G UILLER, M. 106 Indelible ink, G UTHRIE, D R. C. B. 264 General report upon the results and effects of the drug law, H ARRIS, C. T. 73
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York