THE OPEN ROAD ‘Ratty,’ said the Mole suddenly, one bright summer morning, ‘if you please, I want to ask you a favour.’
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Be happy, my friend; and if you obey me in this one request, remain satisfied that nothing on earth will have the power to interrupt my tranquillity.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

JOHNSON. 'Hold, Sir! Don't talk of rudeness; remember, Sir, you told me (puffing hard with passion struggling for a vent,) I was shortsighted.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Failing to find the pair, he hurried back to the Opera, remembered Raoul's strange confidence about his fantastic rival and learned that the viscount had made every effort to enter the cellars of the theater and that he had disappeared, leaving his hat in the prima donna's dressing-room beside an empty pistol-case.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

One of the daughters had something inquiring in her mind, a touch of rebellious refinement; she had enough instinct for another kind of life to be at least discontented with her own; with her I could talk.
— from Spiritual Adventures by Arthur Symons

His uncle Solomon Heine was a warm supporter of the Temple, but Heine, with characteristic inconsistency, admired the old rigorous rabbinical system more than the modern reform movement, which often called forth his ridicule.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

[22] There is a common, and to some minds, a weighty objection against the truth of revealed religion, stated as follows:—If
— from Philosophy of the Plan of Salvation: A Book for the Times by James B. (James Barr) Walker

Those, who in the old Red River Settlement days had been accustomed to their parish schools, were not seriously opposed to the separate school system.
— from John Black, the Apostle of the Red River Or, How the Blue Banner Was Unfurled on Manitoba Prairies by George Bryce

Next spring give the ground another top dressing of gypsum, in order that a growth of white clover may rise after harvest, as this will afford considerable fall feed, and a fresh sward to be turned under in the latter part of the fall, the effect of which will be explained when speaking of manures, &c. Thus our rotation requires six seasons for its completion, and is composed of six or more different and successive crops.
— from The Rural Magazine, and Literary Evening Fire-Side, Vol. 1 No. 02 (1820) by Various

It reminded one of one of the old Roman roads, some of the slabs being quite ten feet long by five feet broad and two thick.
— from From Pekin to Calais by Land by Harry De Windt

The priests put on their officiating robes, recited several orisons appropriate to the occasion; then, with the Cross carried before them, bearing a holy-water sprinkler in their hands, followed by Vranic and his friends—all with blessed tapers—they went up to the murdered man's tomb.
— from The Pobratim: A Slav Novel by P. Jones