“We shall cry, we shall be sure to cry,” Nastya chimed in with timid haste.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Samples of the lots would be given to him in carefully sealed glass bottles, and usually the buyer would trust his discerning eye to judge correctly the quality of the goods, not even taking the trouble to uncork the bottle.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

What terrors have the Gods for us?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It would stop when I stood still, and when the road along which I was travelling happened to be lined with trees, I no longer saw it, but it was sure to reappear as soon as I reached a portion of the road without trees.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

When they had gained their own room, Jane taking out the letter, said, "This is from Caroline Bingley; what it contains, has surprised me a good deal.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The spirit of his whole life is magnificently expressed in his own lines, in the Epilogue of his last book: One who never turned his back, but marched breast forward, Never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, tho' right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, Sleep to wake.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The water they had disturbed under the impulsion of a necessity which they had not wantonly incurred, having been forced to use it in defending themselves against the Boeotians who first invaded Attica.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

Further in the gallery was the huge skeleton barrel of a Brontosaurus.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The pilot put up his poles, but took them down again within two hours, as the wind freshened up anew.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

Most of this, doubtless, is the simple consequence of abstaining from labor; but, connected with the history of the festival, its usual observances, and the holy calm that appears to reign around, it is so very obvious and impressive, that a Sunday in a mild day in June is to me ever a delicious resting-place, as a mere poetical pause in the bustling and turmoil of this world's time.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

One asks why they had not turned back days before, and as soon as they found the route uncertain.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth

I have known several who threw away their Spectacles at the Age of fifty-two, or fifty-three, which they had used five or six Years before.
— from Advice to the people in general, with regard to their health by S. A. D. (Samuel Auguste David) Tissot

Right Honorable Vice-Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson Duke of Bronté Who terminated his career of Naval glory in the memorable Battle of Trafalgar On the 21st of October, 1805,
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

The very fact of my taking my life into my hands, 176 and going so freely among those wicked and bloody wretches, instead of weighing in my favor, would seem to point to some sort of bargain with them whereby I was the gainer; for who would believe that they would voluntarily have resigned so great a part of those things which they had a short time before torn away from us at the cost of so much blood?
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

Perhaps you’ll just watch, sir, and tell me when the husband leaves the house.
— from John Holdsworth, Chief Mate by William Clark Russell

This hope, we cannot but think, is based upon an erroneous opinion of the necessary tendency of intellectual culture; which is to increase the spirit of criticism, and consequently, by dissatisfying the mind with what is, to direct it continually to new experiments, with the hope of finding something better.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 23, April, 1876-September, 1876. A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

The world treated his novelties just as it treats everybody's novelties,—made infinite objection: mustered all the impediments; but he snapped his finger at their objections.
— from Representative Men: Seven Lectures by Ralph Waldo Emerson

We landed at the "L. X." ranch on the 22nd day of June, with the herd of twenty-five hundred head of cattle, after having been absent just seven months, to a day.
— from A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Charles A. Siringo