CHAPTER 11 Q uiet and solitude were destined to hold uninterrupted rule no longer, beneath the roof that sheltered the child.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Nyctipithecus trivirgatus , Humb.; Upper Rio Negro.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will [17] and passions, which generate their own system accordingly; for man always believes more readily that which he prefers.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

You could take her up right now.
— from Tight Squeeze by Dean Charles Ing

Of the Germans it may be said that, as a rule, they had, until recently, no special liking for the tempo rubato .
— from Chopin and Other Musical Essays by Henry T. Finck

He took his usual revenge next morning by a writ; but the debt was discharged by the assistance of Eugenio.
— from The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II by Samuel Johnson

So many hours, so many days, so many long, long nights of hopeless, cheerless, never-ending work—not to heap up riches, not to live grandly or gaily, not to live upon enough, however coarse; but to earn bare bread; to scrape together just enough to toil upon, and want upon, and keep alive in us the consciousness of our hard fate!
— from The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year out and a New Year In by Charles Dickens

When these gentlemen came to Johnson Hall they were informed by Lady Johnson that Sir John Johnson had received General Schuyler's letter by the express; that he had consulted the Highlanders upon the contents, and that they had unanimously resolved not to deliver themselves as prisoners, but to go another way, and that Sir John Johnson had determined to go with them.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

Another matter for grave concern was the thought that Captain Naudé might attempt to pass through his usual route, not knowing that the enemy had been informed of it, and run straight into the traps prepared for him.
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt