I remove my suit; I shift from court to court; I fly from equity to law, and from law to equity; equal uncertainty attends me everywhere; and a mistake in which I had no share, decides at once upon my liberty and property, sending me from the court to a prison, and adjudging my family to beggary and famine.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

And I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

‘Ah!’ cried the voice, as its owner pushed his way among the last five-and-twenty Turks, officers, cavaliers, and Charles the Seconds, that remained between him and the table, ‘regular mangle—Baker’s patent—not a crease in my coat, after all this squeezing—might have “got up my linen” as I came along—ha! ha!
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

I was hurried upon my last visit by the approach of the rainy season and by the exhaustion of my supplies.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

Wal, I puts up my larder dis yer side; ’tan’t no go;—den, cause I don’t try dere no more, but puts my larder right de contrar side,
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

I cannot say with truth that the terrible inference which those words suggested flashed upon me like a new revelation.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

You seem almost like a coquette, upon my life you do—a coquette of the first urban water!
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

So he advised me to wait presently upon my Lord, and clear myself in the most perfect manner I could, with all submission and assurance that I am his creature both in this and all other things; and that I do owne that all I have, is derived through my Lord Sandwich from his Lordship.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

“It’s likely to be a very cheap funeral,” said the same speaker; “for upon my life I don’t know of anybody to go to it.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

The propagation of the coffee plant by cutting has two distinct advantages over propagation by seed, in that it spares the expense of seed production, which is enormous, and it gives also a method of hybridization, which, if used, might lead not only to very interesting but also to very profitable results.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

As tack and sheet unto the sail, As to my verse the rime, As mountains to the low green earth— So hard for feet to climb, As call of striking clock amid The quiet flow of time, As sculptor's mallet to the birth Of the slow-dawning face, As knot upon my Lily's thread When she would work apace, God's Nay is such, and worketh so For his children's coming grace.
— from The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 1 by George MacDonald

Also in its [Pg 133] weird characters, you have the best example I can show you of the orders of decorative design which are especially expressible by engraving, and which belong to a group of art instincts scarcely now to be understood, much less recovered, (the influence of modern naturalistic imitation being too strong to be conquered)—the instincts, namely, for the arrangement of pure line, in labyrinthine intricacy, through which the grace of order may give continual clue.
— from Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

I had no reason, however, to accuse her of inattention when I hinted at the change in Clement's expectations; for, although my mother suffered it to pass unnoticed, Mademoiselle Laundy thought proper to press questions on me relative to this subject.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

"It was quite by accident I heard her say that unless Mr. Linchmore made haste she would not arrive in time to meet the train."
— from It May Be True, Vol. 3 (of 3) by Wood, Henry, Mrs.

At our approach, [363] they hastened to send us messengers loaded with provisions and presents; they offered to surrender and accept the laws we might please to dictate; but as we were few in number, and as the general desire of the army was to march to Jerusalem, we continued our route, after having required hostages of the cities, the smallest of which contained more inhabitants than we had soldiers.
— from The History of the Crusades (vol. 3 of 3) by J. Fr. (Joseph Fr.) Michaud

she thought, "and perhaps he did not understand me last night; and besides, I owe him
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Already my mind is clear and free, unclogged of the obscurities of ignorance, which my unhappy and incessant readings of those detestable books of chivalry cast upon me like a heavy shadow.
— from The great Galeoto; Folly or saintliness two plays done from the verse of José Echegaray into English prose by Hannah Lynch by José Echegaray

The demand for coal, iron, engines, and materials kindled prodigious excitement in the factories and the shops; labourers were called for from every side; wages rose rapidly; profits shared the upward movement; luxurious spending overflowed; prices advanced all round; the recklessness of a prosperous time bubbled over; and this subsidiary over-consumption immensely enlarged the waste of the national capital set in motion by the expenditure on the railways themselves.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson

Mr. Moore proved that 91 when he told me how Mr. Mallowe and Carlis called up Mr. Lawton in his presence on his private wire and discussed the negotiations.”
— from The Crevice by William J. Burns

Upon that she said: ‘I must send for him, and neither of you must go out until Monsieur le Prince has entered.’
— from A Gallant of Lorraine; vol. 1 of 2 François, Seigneur de Bassompierre, Marquis d'Haronel, Maréchal de France, 1579-1646 by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams