If the Infantry do less Execution than the Charioteers, it is, because they cannot be carried so soon into all Quarters of the Town, and dispatch so much Business in so short a Time.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Such things make me sad; because by and by when I have found out everything there won't be any more excitements, and I do love excitements so!
— from Eve's Diary, Complete by Mark Twain

Kurz ist der Lieb' Entzücken, doch ewig ist 40 die Pein —Short is the rapture of love, but eternal is the pain.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The title of his work is De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliæ , first printed in 1569.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

In dreams, lovely England!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

—In order to pin out lace in a thoroughly satisfactory manner, you should provide yourself with a wooden drum, about 30 c/m. high and from 50 to 60 c/m. in diameter, large enough to rest upon the knees.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

—Pues las acompaño en su sentimiento , [12] dice el importuno, dejándoles libre el paso.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

"Oh, take your time about it, Dan," laughed Eph, unconcernedly.
— from The Submarine Boys on Duty Life on a Diving Torpedo Boat by Victor G. Durham

I imagine the Mormonites flourish better in districts less enlightened.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

I had almost forgotten—I sent Flaggs after an envelope which I fancied I dropped last evening," answered the lawyer.
— from Mortmain by Arthur Cheney Train

"He won't smell us, the wind blowing as it does," Linda encouraged.
— from The Strength of the Pines by Edison Marshall

But not only in matters of such relative importance did Lenau exhibit this vacillation.
— from Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

I desisted long enough to hold the opening to the light and peer within.
— from A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey

‘I wish to be high up, out of de dust and in de light,’ explained the Baroness.
— from The Grand Babylon Hôtel by Arnold Bennett