Her virtue was only equalled by her discretion; but, as the odds were equal, Lord Squib betted on the last.
— from The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

It was a type of what every lesson should be.
— from The Girl in Her Teens by Margaret Slattery

But we will view those others With eyes like stone, And if we have no brothers We will walk alone.
— from Poems - First Series by Squire, John Collings, Sir

Alcohol dissolves resins, water dissolves gums; have you any explanation to offer why either liquid should dissolve anything, much less exercise a preference?
— from Etidorhpa; or, The End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey by John Uri Lloyd

Half, with perfect loyalty, she gave out to duty; the other, with equal loyalty, she stifled within.
— from Sister Dolorosa, and Posthumous Fame by James Lane Allen

Bodies were free from one or other of these Tendencies, or would ever lye still, unless hinder'd by some other Body, and interrupted in their course; as when, for instance, a Stone in its fall is stopp'd by the solidity and hardness of the Earth, when 'tis plain it would otherwise continue still descending; so Smoak still continues going upwards, and if it should be intercepted by a solid Arch, it would divide both to the right and left, and so soon as it was freed from the Arch, would still continue ascending; and pass through the Air, which is not solid enough to restrain it.
— from The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan by Muhammad ibn 'Abd al-Malik Ibn Tufayl

The words brought a kind of cold breath of suspicion into the room, at the chill touch of which each looked stealthily at his neighbour, as if he said, "Is it he?
— from Shrewsbury: A Romance by Stanley John Weyman

In a low whisper one of them said to the other,— "Was ever love so true and beautiful?
— from In Taunton town : a story of the rebellion of James Duke of Monmouth in 1685 by Evelyn Everett-Green