The balls might be heard peppering the facade of the Palais Royal, and one of them, passing under D’Artagnan’s arm, entered and broke a mirror, in which Porthos was complacently admiring himself.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

—And thou art little better, quoth she to the third; for nothing is there in thy panniers but trunk-hose and pantofles—and so to the fourth and fifth, going on one by one through the whole string, till coming to the asse which carries it, she turns the pannier upside down, looks at it—considers it—samples it—measures it—stretches it—wets it—dries it—then takes her teeth both to the warp and weft of it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

It was late on a winter evening; the mountains were covered with snow, but the moon shone brightly, and moonlight in Italy is like a dull winter's day in the north; indeed it is better, for clear air seems to raise us above the earth, while in the north a cold, gray, leaden sky appears to press us down to earth, even as the cold damp earth shall one day press on us in the grave.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

Otherwise you convict yourself of an error in logic by which you smoothly conjure away the problem under discussion; or "beg the question," as it is called in English.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

I have defended it with my sword, and was willing that my spirit should be breathed out in its defence; freedom is of more worth than life, and the Greeks do well to defend their privilege unto death.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The empirical use to which reason limits the pure understanding, does not fully satisfy the proper destination of the latter.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

They pulled up directly they observed her, and said, “You had better go back as fast as you can: the mob is out, and coming up Dale in great force.” Sybil enquired, with much agitation, whether they had themselves seen the people, and they replied that they had not, but that advices had been received from Mowbray of their approach, and as for themselves they were hurrying at their utmost speed to a town ten miles off, where they understood some yeomanry were stationed, and to whom the Mayor of Mowbray had last night sent a despatch: Sybil would have enquired whether there were time for her to reach the bridge and join her father at the factory of Trafford, but the horsemen were impatient and rode off.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

There is no state so absurd and ridiculous as not to prefer unjust dominion to just subordination.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We may of course expect to see, in any body of men charged with its original formation, very different combinations of the parts upon different points.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

“It war a bad day for the village when he coomed,” Luke said; “what wi' his preachings and his talk, he ha' turned the place upside down.
— from Through the Fray: A Tale of the Luddite Riots by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Like the pent up dogs of the hunter when let loose from their prison of night; Who snuff up the air of the morning, and rejoice at the voice of the chace; They leapt from the sides of their vessels, and spread o'er the wide sounding shore.
— from Poems, &c. (1790) Wherein It Is Attempted To Describe Certain Views Of Nature And Of Rustic Manners; And Also, To Point Out, In Some Instances, The Different Influence Which The Same Circumstances Produce On Different Characters by Joanna Baillie

Slovenia euros (EUR) per US dollar - 0.7345 (2007), tolars per US dollar - 190.85 (2006), 192.71 (2005), 192.38 (2004), 207.11 (2003) note: Slovenia adopted the euro as its currency on 1 January 2007
— from The 2008 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The first effect of our disenchantment took the form of an overflow of words: silence was made to pay us dear for having so long oppressed us.
— from The Memoirs of François René Vicomte de Chateaubriand sometime Ambassador to England, Volume 1 (of 6) Mémoires d'outre-tombe, volume 1 by Chateaubriand, François-René, vicomte de

Toby thought of the six pea-nuts which he had bought with the penny Uncle Daniel had given him; and, amidst all his homesickness, he could not help wondering if Uncle Daniel ever made himself sick with only six pea-nuts when he was a boy.
— from Harper's Young People, December 14, 1880 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

With another shifting of the lever he brought the light around so that it began to pick up different buildings in the town.
— from Tom Swift and His Great Searchlight; or, on the border for Uncle Sam by Victor Appleton

His successor, Artillery General Von Heinrich , was appointed Governor on October 25th, and held the post until December 27th, 1916, when he was made Governor of Bucharest.
— from Lille Before and During the War by Pneu Michelin (Firm)

Grant has gone now to pick up David from school.
— from Four and Twenty Beds by Nancy Casteel Vogel