She listened eagerly to him, yet tantalized herself by giving to his words a meaning foreign to their true interpretation, and adverse to her hopes.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

More permanent and more lucrative employment than had yet been offered to me was a necessity of our position—a necessity for which I now diligently set myself to provide.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Professor Huxley very wisely says: If any form of the doctrine of progressive development is correct, we must extend by long epochs the most liberal estimate that has yet been made of the antiquity of man.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

When I get into any serious scrape, in an enemy's country, may I be lucky enough to have you at my elbow, to pull me out of it!
— from Army Life in a Black Regiment by Thomas Wentworth Higginson

I know you might have had me long ere this, had you tried.”
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

At another time he said, “When you go, for it is plain I cannot, and go one or other of us must, try and get the horse I had: he will be nine years old, and he knows all about the rivers: if you leave everything to him, you may shut your eyes, but do not interfere with him.
— from Erewhon Revisited Twenty Years Later, Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son by Samuel Butler

If you favour one you prejudice the other; and the more you endeavour to trim and compromise the less efficient the hybrid you produce.
— from War and the Arme Blanche by Erskine Childers

A hotter method of carrying a blanket could scarcely be devised, but it is much preferable to the antique leather equipment that hangs year in and year out on the armoury walls.
— from From the St. Lawrence to the Yser with the 1st Canadian brigade by Frederic C. Curry

“Pino is selfish; when he learns you will not listen to him he will be very angry and he will be less eager to help your father.
— from The White Mice by Richard Harding Davis

Like Macaulay he represents the whig attitude towards politics, but does so less consciously and less emphatically than his younger contemporary.
— from The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) by John Knight Fotheringham