“Indeed it was, Princess,” he answered; “the wicked Fairy of the Desert, not content with chaining me to a rock, carried me off in her chariot to the other end of the earth, where I should even now be a captive but for the unexpected help of a friendly mermaid, who brought me here to rescue you, my Princess, from the unworthy hands that hold you.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

You will select those who deserve to continue members of the senate; you will restore the equestrian order to its ancient splendor; you will improve the revenue, yet moderate the public burdens.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

"That is not in my power," said the genie; "I am only the slave of the ring; you must ask the slave of the lamp.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Had you come into the room you might have supposed the old man had unpleasant dreams or perhaps indigestion.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

I have brought you these ribbons, Yulia Mihailovna.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

For Tacitus, who first of all authors nameth it Londinum, saith, that in the 62nd year after Christ, it was, albeit no colony of the Romans, yet most famous for the great multitude of merchants, provision, and intercourse.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But really, I don't see how, from the description you have, you will be able to recognise your man, even if he is on board the Mongolia.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Thus to retort your manifest appeal, And put your trial in the villain's mouth Which here you come to accuse.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“When you go to Rome you must do as the Romans do.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Other studies, promising similar advantages, must, perhaps, for the reasons you mention, be for the present postponed.
— from Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Complete by Aaron Burr

At the end of the road, which continues to rise, you meet a large monumental fountain, which serves as a shouldering-piece, raised to the memory of the emperor Charles the Fifth: it is covered with numerous devices, coats of arms, names of victories, imperial eagles, mythological medallions, is of a heavy imposing richness, and in the Romanic-German style.
— from Wanderings in Spain by Théophile Gautier

The Knight of the Sun stood up over him beside the lady with his hands clasped on his sword-hilt, and said to Ralph: "Young man, canst thou hear my words?"
— from The Well at the World's End: A Tale by William Morris

He will be a happy fellow who gets her!" was the sentiment of the elderly gentlemen who visited the Vincys; and the rejected young men thought of trying again, as is the fashion in country towns where the horizon is not thick with coming rivals.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

"We'll go over parts each day for a while and the book work you must do at home will help to refresh your memory.
— from Dorothy Dixon Wins Her Wings by Dorothy Wayne

Driven away, they returned yet more numerous and more ferocious.
— from The Downfall (La Débâcle): A Story of the Horrors of War by Émile Zola

If you want to register your marriage, sir, you must make application to the sheriff of the county; but it's just as binding and legal without."
— from The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Life had long been a burden to him, which his unhappy temper rendered yet more galling.
— from The Rambles of a Rat by A. L. O. E.

Herewith I send you 400l., of which three parts are to be expended on missionaries, the rest you may expend on the Orphans, if needed; else the whole to be disposed of to the Lord's ministering servants.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 4 by George Müller