Meanwhile the Mantineans and their allies and the picked body of the Argives ceased to press the enemy, and seeing their friends defeated and the Lacedaemonians in full advance upon them, took to flight.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

The main principle of this language is spelling the words backwards—or rather, pronouncing them rudely backwards.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The brocade was an old remnant, Becky said; and as for the lace, it was a great bargain.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

"I have not the least idea," was all I could say in reply.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

That was about the last I saw of the regular army hospitals.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

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— from Mr. Honey's Medium Business Dictionary (German-English) by Winfried Honig

Beside this underlying consideration there was the limitless interest and curiosity in our civilization, purely impersonal, and held by an order of mind beside which we were like—schoolboys.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I am thinking some matter over,” said I, “and I must go and write one or two letters in my room till it is time for supper.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I have no friends, else might I show that I was not in Islington that day; so also might I show that at that hour they name I was above a league away, seeing I was at Wapping Old Stairs; yea more, my King, for I could show, that whilst they say I was taking life, I was saving it.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Nothing—as Mrs. Welland had often remarked—nothing on earth obliged Emerson Sillerton to be an archaeologist, or indeed a Professor of any sort, or to live in Newport in winter, or do any of the other revolutionary things that he did.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

What makes me think so little of the ladies is that I see none as they be,’ meaning as the spirits.
— from The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 5 (of 8) The Celtic Twilight and Stories of Red Hanrahan by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

Then turning to Jerry, as he put the letter in his pocket, he said, "thank you for bringing this to me.
— from Gretchen: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

For my part I am willing to leave it to Cicero— “ Nemo fere saltat sobrius, nisi forte insanit. ”
— from Neither Here Nor There by Oliver Herford

"I do not suppose," said Mr. Wade, "that if I had been on the committee I could have drawn up a proposition so good as this is that they have brought forward; and yet it seems to me, having the benefit of what they have done, that looking it over, reflecting upon it, seeing all its weak points, if it have any, I could, without having the ability of that committee, suggest amendments that would be beneficial."
— from History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes

Nevertheless, Moslem Spain, though less important than Castile and Aragon, remained the keynote of the period, not alone because of the wars against it, but also because its civilization, especially in material and intellectual aspects, was still far superior to that of Castile and Aragon.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Now, Mill held that Logic is concerned with the grounds of belief, and that the scope of Logic includes Induction as well as Deduction; whereas, according to Hamilton, Induction is only Modified Logic, a mere appendix to the theory of the "forms of thought as thought."
— from Logic: Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read

From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne