We have carriages to fetch and convey her home, and we live in a style which could not make the addition of Jane Fairfax, at any time, the least inconvenient.—I should be extremely displeased if Wright were to send us up such a dinner, as could make me regret having asked more than Jane Fairfax to partake of it.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

B. IV., and from: the second apology of Justin Martyr, where a persecution was brought upon the Christians upon such a divorce; and I think the Roman laws permitted it at that time, as well as the laws of Christianity.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

It would have cured the most chronic insomnia, but I was not labouring under such a disease, and I slept for ten hours.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I only know that I finally got into the state that usually succeeds a debauch, and upon waking next morning, as if from a hideous nightmare, had to convince myself that I had really taken part in the events of the previous night by a trophy I possessed in the shape of a tattered red curtain, which I had brought home as a token of my prowess.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

114 I infer, an’ please your worship, replied Trim, that the radical moisture is nothing in the world but ditch-water—and that the radical heat, of those who can go to the expence of it, is burnt brandy,—the radical heat and moisture of a private man, an’ please your honour, is nothing but ditch-water—and a dram of geneva——and give us but enough of it, with a pipe of tobacco, to give us spirits, and drive away the vapours—we know not what it is to fear death.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

I infer, an' please your worship, replied Trim, that the radical moisture is nothing in the world but ditch-water—and that the radical heat, of those who can go to the expence of it, is burnt brandy,—the radical heat and moisture of a private man, an' please your honour, is nothing but ditch-water—and a dram of geneva—and give us but enough of it, with a pipe of tobacco, to give us spirits, and drive away the vapours—we know not what it is to fear death.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Benson, in some surprise, removed the cheese, and did his best to effect a quiet and speedy clearance of the rest; but, unfortunately, there was a rumple in the carpet, caused by the hasty pushing back of his master’s chair, at which he tripped and stumbled, causing a rather alarming concussion with the trayful of crockery in his hands, but no positive damage, save the fall and breaking of a sauce tureen; but, to my unspeakable shame and dismay, Arthur turned furiously around upon him, and swore at him with savage coarseness.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The contradictions in Anthon's letters leave him in a most unenviable situation; and doubtless accounts for anti-"Mormons" publishing extracts only from his letters.
— from New Witnesses for God (Volume 2 of 3) by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

Best of all the Billabong folk loved the great cellars under the inn, which were once the cloisters of an old monastery: where there are unexpected steps, and dim archways, and winding paths where it is very easy to imagine that you see bare-footed friars with brown habits and rope girdles pacing slowly along.
— from Captain Jim by Mary Grant Bruce

["Prime Minister" Dr. SEIN WIN] consists of individuals, some legitimately elected to the People's Assembly in 1990 (the group fled to a border area and joined insurgents in December 1990 to form parallel government in exile); Kachin Independence Organization or KIO; Karen National Union or KNU; Karenni National People's Party or KNPP; National Council-Union of Burma or NCUB (exile coalition of opposition groups); several Shan factions; United Wa State Army or UWSA; Union Solidarity and Development Association or USDA (pro-regime, a social and political mass-member organization)
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The upper part of the Giant flies up, and the under sinks, and discovers a Woman in the Room.
— from The Life and Death of Doctor Faustus Made into a Farce by William Mountfort

Near Schomberg, the mock victim used to be known as the Fool, another significant name, and was finally buried under straw and dung, a conjunction of obvious agricultural import.
— from The Evolution of the Idea of God: An Inquiry Into the Origins of Religions by Grant Allen

And then he would begin to talk, weaving a romance of any subject that came up,—the subject was nothing, it was always what he made of it,—and he would go on talking until Trimmer, overjoyed at the chance, came in with afternoon tea; and he would go on [Pg 58] talking until she announced dinner; and he would go on talking until all hours the next morning, long after his last train and any possibility of his article getting into yesterday afternoon's "Pall Mall."
— from Our House and London out of Our Windows by Elizabeth Robins Pennell

This narrowed to a fourth of that width up stream, and disappeared altogether at the brink of the falls.
— from Blazing Arrow: A Tale of the Frontier by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Whin I came off duty the women showed me the child, an’ ut turned on uts side an’ died as I looked.
— from Life's Handicap: Being Stories of Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling

Just as soon go all over the house, up stairs and down, and into the cellar, as not.
— from Greenacre Girls by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

"On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Or Iser, rolling rapidly.
— from Napoleon Bonaparte by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott