Nothing could be objected to when it came under the discussion of the neighbourhood, except that the carriage which conveyed the bride and bridegroom and Julia from the church-door to Sotherton was the same chaise which Mr. Rushworth had used for a twelvemonth before.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Sorrow is knowledge; they who know the most must mourn the deepest over the fatal truth, the tree of knowledge is not that of life.
— 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.

It was the dawn of the great panic.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Apart from the destruction of the foetus in criminal abortion, which was so common at Rome in the time of the Empire, we have mention of an instrument for legitimately producing the death of the foetus from humane motives before forced delivery.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

In the foetus, prior to the descent of the testicle, the cremaster muscle does not exist.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

The dispersal of the rest was rather minutely itemized: the taxes and improvements on the Lake Geneva estate had come to almost nine thousand dollars; the general up-keep, including Beatrice's electric and a French car, bought that year, was over thirty-five thousand dollars.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

In the choice of the plays and the distribution of the parts I had no hand at all.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“But I had gone; and was ready to drop over the high board-fence, when it occurred to me that I might drop into a policeman’s arms.
— from The Face of the Fields by Dallas Lore Sharp

You see that they treated of all your problems, and had solved the deepest of them, whilst your forefathers were groping in darkness.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

Then she got up and went in the direction of the shepherd's hut.
— from The Strand Magazine, Vol. 01, Issue 02, February 1891 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

It was in vain that Conway, who was charged with the conduct of business in the House of Commons, and Charles Townshend, who was responsible for the direction of the finances, begged for some glimpse of light as to what was in contemplation.
— from Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays; Vol. 6 With a Memoir and Index by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Dunbar the Scotish Poet, [1] who adorned the reign of James the Fourth, in his "Lament for the Death of the Makars" or Poets, includes the name of Hay; so likewise does Sir David Lyndesay, in the reign of James the Fifth; but no other writer seems to have been aware that such an author had ever existed, until we reach the year 1722, when there appeared the Third Volume of "The Lives and Characters of the most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation, &c. By George Mackenzie , M. D."
— from The Buke of the Order of Knyghthood Translated from the French by Sir Gilbert Hay, Knight by Ramon Llull

Then, spurred on by necessity, he took the manuscript in his hand, and presented it himself at the doors of the learned; but he was either not listened to, or repulsed on every occasion.
— from Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton

I saw some time ago a little paragraph in a paper in this city, which represents the interest of the Government, in which it was said that the defendants' counsel were afraid to argue this case because they would come in collision with each other; that each would try to throw the conspiracy at the door of the others and exonerate himself, and that therefore they were afraid to argue the case.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 10 (of 12) Dresden Edition—Legal by Robert Green Ingersoll

It is not true that I and my friends have ever tried to form a barrier round the door of the hall to prevent people from going into it.
— from The Great Acceptance: The Life Story of F. N. Charrington by Guy Thorne