‘The word which separates us,’ said Nicholas, grasping him heartily by the shoulder, ‘shall never be said by me, for you are my only comfort and stay.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Notion Of Rights In The United States No great people without a notion of rights—How the notion of rights can be given to people—Respect of rights in the United States—Whence it arises.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Naglugabung ang mga lamísa ug síya nga gipatíran sa mga hubug, The chairs and tables made a thumping sound as the drunken men kicked them.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

" "Son of Tydeus," replied Ulysses, "say neither good nor ill about me, for you are among Argives who know me well.
— from The Iliad by Homer

But here was daylight; here was a healthy, square-shouldered man in tweeds, not odd save for the accident of his ugly spectacles, not glaring or grinning at all, but smiling steadily and not saying a word.
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Neither politics nor manufactures direct them to these occupations; and although new laws are perpetually enacted in the United States, no great writers have hitherto inquired into the general principles of their legislation.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

That head upon which the upper sun now gleams, has moved amid this world’s foundations.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Upon how many occasions, when his burning eloquence, his energy, had roused the angry lion, has he been known to laugh in pity, to see the meute whom his own fiery zeal had urged into hot pursuit, rush madly by, while he himself lay down to rest until some newer game was started.
— from Reminiscences of Prince Talleyrand, Volume 1 (of 2) by Colmache, M., active 19th century

The discussion of rules existing only in a text-writer's belief in their abstract justice, would be entirely useless labor in any writer in the English language; for whatever may be the system of Continental Europe, neither the United States, nor Great Britain, nor any one of the future kindred nations that will grow out of the English colonies, will ever pay much regard to a doctrine so foreign to that noble system of law which, like their common tongue, will be a permanent proof of their common origin.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Gardiner G. Hubbard Reports of the Vice-Presidents: Geography of the Land : Herbert G. Ogden Geography of the Sea : George L. Dyer, Hydrographer, U. S. N. Geography of the Air : A. W. Greely, Chief Signal Officer, U. S. A. Geography of Life : C. Hart Merriam Annual Report of the Treasurer Report of Auditing Committee Annual Report of the Secretaries Certificate of Incorporation Officers for 1889 By-Laws Members of the Society April, 1889.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. I., No. 2, April, 1889 by Various

Sometimes, returning through the Craddock Woods, Hadria would pass through the churchyard on her way home, after her walk, and there she would come upon Dodge patiently at work upon some new grave, the sound of his pickaxe breaking the autumn silence, ominously.
— from The Daughters of Danaus by Mona Caird

Two intellectual and physical giants will beget weaklings, so we are told, if their union has not preceded by love’s desire; while if two weaklings marry upon short notice, guided only by their pent-up sex promptings, the offspring, as a child of love, is prophesied to become a physical and intellectual giant.
— from Love: A Treatise on the Science of Sex-attraction for the use of Physicians and Students of Medical Jurisprudence by Bernard Simon Talmey

Jake Pergrin, a bald-headed man with a paunch, stubby iron-grey moustache, and a dark line of machine oil encircling his finger nails so that they stood forth separately like formal flower beds at the edge of a lawn, worked industriously from Monday morning until Saturday night, going to bed at nine o’clock, and until that hour wandering, whistling, from room to room through the house, in a pair of worn carpet slippers, or sitting in his room practising on a violin.
— from Windy McPherson's Son by Sherwood Anderson

Perhaps Uncle Sam never got over his love for the children's aunt.
— from The Coming of the White Men: Stories of How Our Country Was Discovered by Mary Hazelton Blanchard Wade

II "O N Thursday, January 8th, at the English church, Florence, by the Reverend J. Chaloner-Bouverie, Alan Mackenzie, to Dorothy, daughter of the late Captain Richard North, United States Navy."— Galignani's Messenger of January 10, 1882.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson