But the day after tomorrow I was thinking of printing your article— Dr. Stockmann.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

"They were tears of pity, young lady, that heaven blesses and instead of falling from my eyes like the everyday tears that we all of us shed, they turned into two rays of light which slanted nearer and nearer to the man standing at the altar with you, till they touched his breast.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The letters were yellow and faded and dim, blurred with the touch of passing years.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

[ This mention of the Corinthian ornaments of architecture in Solomon's palace by Josephus seems to be here set down by way of prophecy although it appears to me that the Grecian and Roman most ancient orders of architecture were taken from Solomon's temple, as from their original patterns, yet it is not so clear that the last and most ornamental order of the Corinthian was so ancient, although what the same Josephus says, [Of the War, B. V. ch. 5. sect.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[56-90] and Troy would now stand, and you, tall towers of Priam, yet abide.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

If you will look at the map of Italy on the opposite page, you will find near the middle of the peninsula and facing the west coast a district called Latium, 1 and Rome its capital.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

You did not give feasts to other people, you waited for them to give feasts to you.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

That be you in never so kindly a propensity to sleep——tho’ you are passing perhaps through the finest country—upon the best roads, and in the easiest carriage for doing it in the world——nay, was you sure you could sleep fifty miles straight forwards, without once opening your eyes—nay, what is more, was you as demonstratively satisfied as you can be of any truth in Euclid , that you should upon all accounts be full as well asleep as awake——nay, perhaps better——Yet the incessant returns of paying for the horses at every stage,——with the necessity thereupon of putting your hand into your pocket, and counting out from thence three livres fifteen sous (sous by sous), puts an end to so much of the project, that you cannot execute above six miles of it (or supposing it is a post and a half,
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

And if you had heard him talk of Pitt, you would never have known what to make of that great statesman.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.—September, 1851—Vol. III. by Various

Lagrange demonstrated that, though the ellipse in which each planet moved was gradually altered in some respects by the attraction of the other planet, yet there is one feature of the curve which the perturbation is powerless to alter permanently: the longest axis of the ellipse, and, therefore, the mean distance of the planet from the sun, which is equal to one-half of it, must remain unchanged.
— from The Story of the Heavens by Robert S. (Robert Stawell) Ball

“And there you will hear How next he will let it, If you pay the old price You may certainly get it.
— from A History of Parliamentary Elections and Electioneering in the Old Days Showing the State of Political Parties and Party Warfare at the Hustings and in the House of Commons from the Stuarts to Queen Victoria by Joseph Grego

[263] The great weeping-willows were showing their first mysterious tinge of pale yellowish green, and Hansie, watching them, wondered what developments would have taken place before those overhanging branches would be crowned with the full beauty of midsummer.
— from The Petticoat Commando: Boer Women in Secret Service by Johanna Brandt

You take two plates, and put on one of them the letters expressing good will and compassion, and on the other plate you put some of the food sent by Americans, and offer the two plates to an Irish mother whose famishing children are tugging at her scanty skirts, and let her take her choice.
— from Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck

“You do me too much honour,” answered Donna Theresa, coldly; “but I should have supposed your filial affections would have prompted you first to throw yourself at your father’s feet before you took the trouble of paying your respects to your numerous cousins, however intimate you may have been with them in your boyish days.”
— from The Prime Minister by William Henry Giles Kingston

Do you think of putting your knife into my neck?"
— from The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

That is the unlikeliest road on which to think of pursuing you, and thus you will baffle Charlot.
— from The Trampling of the Lilies by Rafael Sabatini

Don’t you know everybody has them?” “Not their own photos, you ass!
— from The Great Hunger by Johan Bojer