This vineyard was formerly planted by the good Bacchus, with so great a blessing that it yields leaves, flowers, and fruit all the year round, like the orange trees at Suraine.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

The difference of form is really shared by every degree of the administration, and it is only by including every degree that you really know the difference.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“I really don’t quite know how to tell you,” replied the prince, “but it certainly did seem to me that the man was full of passion, and not, perhaps, quite healthy passion.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Do you go to your room, and Paul Ivanovitch and I will take off our coats and have a nap.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

I am sorry to say that it is a common practice with romancers to announce their hero as a man of extraordinary genius, and to leave his works entirely to the reader's imagination; so that at the end of the book you whisper to yourself ruefully that but for the author's solemn preliminary assurance you should hardly have given the gentleman credit for ordinary good sense.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

I was further accused of eating meat all the year round, of only going to hear fine masses, and I was vehemently suspected of being a Freemason.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“If I win, I go to the Arabs; if you win, I come to your ranks.”
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

It would perhaps be correct to translate the Chinese ho in this case as "Yellow River": for when the word ho (river) is spoken of without qualification it is the Yellow River (near the banks of which most of the old Chinese capitals were situated) that is understood.
— from Lion and Dragon in Northern China by Johnston, Reginald Fleming, Sir

Dear Bahá’í Friends: The Beloved Guardian has directed me to respond to your recent letter to him, with regard to the Temple design, etc.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 1) by Effendi Shoghi

The character of the operations in connection with the war of the Rebellion, and the incidents in which the interest of the young reader will be concentrated, are somewhat different from most of those detailed in the preceding volumes of the series, though they all have the same patriotic tendency, and are carried out with the same devotion to the welfare of the nation as those which deal almost solely in deeds of arms.
— from Fighting for the Right by Oliver Optic

"I want to show you the alligators in the fountain, Mr. Wade, to convince you that you're really in the sunny South.
— from Mary Ware in Texas by Annie F. (Annie Fellows) Johnston

affirmed the young rascal.
— from The Sapphire Signet by Augusta Huiell Seaman

In this sense, then, certainly Rome may have been, as the legend assumes, a creation rather than a growth, and the youngest rather than the oldest among the Latin cities.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

Selecting the largest pitcher as the one most likely to yield results, the spider climbed its stem.
— from The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

Know then, it is your fault, that you resigne The Supreme Seat, the Throne Maiesticall, The Sceptred Office of your Ancestors, Your State of Fortune, and your Deaw of Birth, The Lineall Glory of your Royall House, To the corruption of a blemisht Stock;
— from Richard III by William Shakespeare