It will accumulate: moreover, it will reach a head; for the first of all Gospels is this, that a Lie cannot endure for ever.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Conocíalas perfectamente el tío Buscabeatas por la forma, por su grado de madurez y hasta de nombre, 25 sobre todo a los cuarenta ejemplares más gordos y lucidos, que ya estaban diciendo guisadme , y pasábase
— from Novelas Cortas by Pedro Antonio de Alarcón

722 Then a lake called Elæa, and the island of Strato; 723 next Saba 724 a port, and a hunting-ground for elephants of the same name.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Th’ attention letters can engage, Ev’n from a base degen’rate age, I’ve shown before; and now shall show Their lustre in another view, And tell a memorable tale, How much they can with heav’n prevail .
— from The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Phaedrus

Phonetic possibilities and phonetic habits belong, in language, to this indispensable vehicle; what the throat and lips can emit easily and distinguishably, and what sequences can appeal to the ear and be retained, depend alike on physiological conditions; and no matter how convenient or inconvenient these conditions may be for signification, they will always make themselves felt and may sometimes remain predominant.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He dared not join us, yet he could not resolve to lose sight of us, sole human beings who besides himself existed in wide and fertile France; so he accompanied us in the spectral guise I have described, till pestilence gathered him to a larger congregation, even that of Dead Mankind.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Now for this water it behoveth us have three pairs of fine fat capons, and for other things that are required thereanent, do thou give one of these (thy comrades) five silver crowns, so he may buy them, and let carry everything to my shop; and to-morrow, in God's name, I will send thee the distilled water aforesaid, whereof thou shalt proceed to drink a good beakerful at a time.'
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

Either of them, with a little luck and opportunity, was equal to a lofty career; either of them would have made a good financier, a great contractor, a statesman, though old Jolyon, in certain of his moods when under the influence of a cigar or of Nature—would have been capable of, not perhaps despising, but certainly of questioning, his own high position, while Soames, who never smoked cigars, would not.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

The gloved hand is never given to a lady, certain exceptional circumstances proving the rule.
— from Manners for Men by Mrs. Humphry

I have so little beard that a little clipping every three months is all that is necessary."
— from At the Sign of the Barber's Pole: Studies In Hirsute History by William Andrews

Grandfather paused; and looking up in his face, I saw that a less cheery expression had come there.
— from When Life Was Young At the Old Farm in Maine by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens

“They are lovely children, especially Vera?”
— from The Precipice by Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov

Now and then, also, Lord Carnarvon exaggerates the value of the Homeric adjective, and for one word in the Greek gives us a whole line in the English.
— from Reviews by Oscar Wilde

The astonished lad cantered eagerly to his side.
— from The Three Partners by Bret Harte

It is needless to say that within two hours' time Grey's room was at Daisy's disposal, and the proprietor had orders to charge the same to Mr. Jerrold's account instead of Mrs. McPherson's, while Grey's own luggage was transported to a little, close, eight-by-twelve apartment, which smelled worse than old Mrs. Meredith's could possibly have smelled with all her burnt brimstone and camphor and chloride of lime.
— from Bessie's Fortune: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

But there you are—I am bourgeois; or perhaps I belong to a lower class even than that.
— from The Day of Judgment by Joseph Hocking

There was a sort of rough bonhomie about him, and though he could be disagreeable on occasions to a leading counsel, especially if brought from the common-law bar into his court, he showed a good-humoured wish to deal gently with young or inexperienced barristers.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount