Jane says she will devote her whole life to teaching, and never, never marry, because you are paid a salary for teaching, but a husband won’t pay you anything, and growls if you ask for a share in the egg and butter money.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

As they all live in close intercourse, as they have learned the same things together, and as they lead the same life, they are not naturally disposed to take one of themselves for a guide, and to follow him implicitly.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

“Ha, what’s this?” asked Napoleon, noticing that all the courtiers were looking at something concealed under a cloth.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She staid there all night; nobody turned in.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

They are not numerous now.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Plays that are neglected now-a-days by the great public were ran after thirty years ago, and listened to till the tears ran down the cheeks of the audience.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Texts: Tales and Novels, New Langford Edition, 10 vols.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

But they are naughty, naughty!
— from The Rainbow by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

Nor turne the key to any neyghbours neede; Be’t but to kindle fire, or begg a little, Put it out, rather: all out, to an aſhe, 170 That they may ſee no ſmoake.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

As an ally he was worth all the rest, because he understood his own class, who were always a majority; and knew how to deal with them as no New Englander could.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Curiosity, which is the Waiter's weekness, makes me inquire, why so many Cow Boys when there aint not no Cows?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 93, July 9, 1887. by Various

Portrait of a Lady, Stuttgart Museum; the Duchess of Brunswick, Hampton Court Palace; the architect Novosielski, National Gallery, Edinburgh.
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

After a time spent in Paris she came again to the United States in 1825, and purchased 2400 acres of land in Tennessee, at Neshoba (now Memphis).
— from Early American Plays, 1714-1830 A Compilation of the Titles of Plays and Dramatic Poems Written by Authors Born in or Residing in North America Previous to 1830 by Oscar Wegelin

But their operations were confined, at first, to Acadia, now Nova Scotia.
— from History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay Quinté by William Canniff

“She is so excited, poor thing,” said Ruth, drawing her to her bosom; “don’t talk about it now, Katy; lean your head on me and take a nice nap;” and the weary child nestled up to her mother, while Nettie put one finger on her lip, with a sagacious look at Mr. Walter, as much as to say, “ I will keep still if you will.”
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

An interview was published in which the Celebrity had declared that a new novel was to appear in a short time.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

I understand, however, that this has been changed, and that there are now no Justices who take bribes.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant