“Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if Thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Thou art the husband chosen for me by Heaven, and shalt pass thy life in unbroken joy, loved by me, and rich to overflowing in every earthly possession.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

—Is the white bear worth seeing?— —Is there no sin in it?— Is it better than a BLACK ONE ? 123 C H A P. XLIV ——W E’LL not stop two moments, my dear Sir,—only, as we have got through these five volumes*, (do, Sir, sit down upon a set——they are better than nothing) let us just look back upon the country we have pass’d through.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

IMPUISSANCE DU PAPE Léon X recevait un jour la visite d'un cardinal qui se plaignait de ce que Michel-Ange l'avait représenté en enfer dans son tableau du jugement dernier.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Virginity, like an old courtier, wears her cap out of fashion, richly suited but unsuitable; just like the brooch and the toothpick, which wear not now.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Her first thought was for her baby, and she was about to speak when a young squaw, who must have been a mother herself, fathomed her thought and brought her the “mowitch,” pale but living, in such a queer little willow cradle, all bound up, just like the squaw's own young one, that she laughed and cried together, and the young squaw and the old squaw showed their big white teeth and glinted their black eyes, and said, “Plenty get well, skeena mowitch,” “Wagee man come plenty soon,” and she could have kissed their brown faces in her joy.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

"They don't show any concern at all," said the usher, "just look at the waiting room here."
— from The Trial by Franz Kafka

In other words, in the union Jurgis learned to talk politics.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Ah, my gallant captain, why did ye not give us Jonah looking out of that eye!
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Kalusun lang ni nátù arun maángay, Let us just ladle this out so we will have equal shares.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But, une jour , Le Compte et
— from The Eve of All-Hallows; Or, Adelaide of Tyrconnel, v. 2 of 3 by Matthew Weld Hartstonge

just let me shut up ... just let me be."
— from Forward, Children! by Paul Alexander Bartlett

It would appear probable, that a coach was a very inconvenient place for a doze; the attendant bustle, the whip-smacks, bickering wheels, and untranquillizing jolts— "Like angels' visits, few and far between,"— are not calculated for sleepiness.
— from The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 266, July 28, 1827 by Various

See Lewis Morris Erichsen, John (Uncle John), later Sir John, 11 , 71 , 141 Eton, 247 Eugenic Society, 356 F Faraday, 19 Farquharson, Dr., 288 , 290 — Joseph, R.A. , 188 Faucit, Helen, 19 Fawcett, M. G., 216 — Mrs., 294 , 296 Fenwick, Mrs. Bedford, 294 Fergusson, William, 19 Fielding, 209 , 251 — Hon. W. S., 250 Fildes, Sir Luke, 161 First Aid Yeomanry Corps, 251 First College for Women, The , 108 Finland, 21 , 28 , 65 - 7 Fisher, Miss (the late), 295 Foreign Office, The, 161 , 283 Forget-me-not (play), 203 Fortnightly (see Courtney ), 105 France, 40 , 121 Frederick, Lady , 281 Furness, Dr. Horace Howard, 239 , 334 Furniss, Harry, 117 , 152 , 178 , 270 , 302 G Gainsborough, 120 Gallery, Grafton, 158 — Grosvenor, 42 , 177 — Modern (Venice), 158 — National (Brussels), 158 , and Berlin, 158 — New, 158 Galton, Sir Francis, 33 , 34 Garvin, J. L. (see Pall Mall ), 105 Germany, 28 , 40 , 114 Gibson, Dana, 239 Gilbert, Alfred, 165 , 167 , 178 — Sir W. S., 88 , 148 - 50 , 152 , 260 Ginsburg, Dr., 313 Girl’s Ride in Iceland, A , 108 , 133 Giuliano, Marquis de San, 154 “Gladstone Dock,” 19 — Mr., 19 -21 — Mrs., 19 Glasgow, 158 , 180 Glencoe, 249 Godwin, Mrs. (Mme. Whistler), 173 Goodbody, Dr. Francis, 20 — Mrs. W. F., 347 Goodwood, 58 Gosse, Mr. Edmund, 152 — Lord, 297 Gossenass,
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

"You mean," Victor stammered, "you mean you didn't mean it, you just made it up? Just like that?" "Darling," she began to giggle, "you didn't bel ieve that wild story?
— from You Don't Make Wine Like the Greeks Did by David E. Fisher

He studied under John Lucas and in the school of John Schoorel.
— from Catalogue of the Gallery of Art of The New York Historical Society by New-York Historical Society

“And it should be used jest like pizen and fire and etcetery.
— from Sweet Cicely — or Josiah Allen as a Politician by Marietta Holley