'What is it?' 'Beware! Beware!
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

“Why, it is after nine now,” I answered.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Acquaintance becomes necessary for love when it is necessary for memory.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

But tell me what it is that I shall do, Eugene!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Then his book was thrown into the barrel, and when he had stripped himself, he went into it.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It is difficult to say what it is intended to represent, and I can give no instance in which it occurs.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Those that are averse from assenting to any new Discoveries, but such as they can explain by an Hypothesis, may for the present suppose, that as Stones by falling upon Water put the Water into an undulating Motion, and all Bodies by percussion excite vibrations in the Air; so the Rays of Light, by impinging on any refracting or reflecting Surface, excite vibrations in the refracting or reflecting Medium or Substance, and by exciting them agitate the solid parts of the refracting or reflecting Body, and by agitating them cause the Body to grow warm or hot; that the vibrations thus excited are propagated in the refracting or reflecting Medium or Substance, much after the manner that vibrations are propagated in the Air for causing Sound, and move faster than the Rays so as to overtake them; and that when any Ray is in that part of the vibration which conspires with its Motion, it easily breaks through a refracting Surface, but when it is in the contrary part of the vibration which impedes its Motion, it is easily reflected; and, by consequence, that every Ray is successively disposed to be easily reflected, or easily transmitted, by every vibration which overtakes it.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

This power Regal under Christ, being challenged, universally by that Pope, and in particular Common-wealths by Assemblies of the Pastors of the place, (when the Scripture gives it to none but to Civill Soveraigns,) comes to be so passionately disputed, that it putteth out the Light of Nature, and causeth so great a Darknesse in mens understanding, that they see not who it is to whom they have engaged their obedience.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

When it is six o’clock in the morning here, it is somewhere about week before last in California.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

She felt sure that it was her intention to marry that jolly old warrior, if it could possibly be managed, and that she was going to employ all her art in the shape of her artlessness and simplicity to bring that about.
— from Arundel by E. F. (Edward Frederic) Benson

That which is in the heart of those who have actively opposed the Manifestation of God is spiritually unhealthy, and although we in our limited human understanding cannot always see the wisdom of shunning them, the Master has instructed us to do so, and for our good, and the good of the Cause, we must obey this instruction.
— from The Light of Divine Guidance (Volume 2) by Effendi Shoghi

I wonder if it would be possible to get out of Port Arthur?
— from At the Fall of Port Arthur; Or, A Young American in the Japanese Navy by Edward Stratemeyer

As recently as January 8, 1914, a handsome new series of stamps was issued in Egypt, on the anniversary day of the accession of the now deposed Khedive, Abbas II.
— from The Postage Stamp in War by Frederick John Melville

And the brilliancy which surrounds the successful development of some deep-laid plan of knavery—the admiration which it involuntarily excites, in the mind even of those who abhor the deed, and condemn the cunning designer, render such misdirected powers doubly dangerous, by exciting in the weak-minded and evil-disposed a desire to emulate such wonderful achievements, and to become notorious, if they cannot make themselves famous.
— from Ten Years Among the Mail Bags Or, Notes from the Diary of a Special Agent of the Post-Office Department by James Holbrook

Well, it is evident that in domestic affairs, that is to say in national affairs, we as a people can take time to deliberate and choose our path; and it is just as evident that in international affairs we cannot always do so.
— from Uncle Sam Abroad by Jacob Elon Conner

The several depressions at which it is necessary to maintain a pumping plant are enumerated as follows: No. 1—Sump at the lowest point on City Hall Loop.
— from The New York Subway, Its Construction and Equipment by Interborough Rapid Transit Company

And if he were impeached it would stop altogether.
— from The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life by Arthur Hornblow

"And I can see how we're robbed down to the last stitch," he whispered in Ilya's ear.
— from Three Men: A Novel by Maksim Gorky