Oh, I would take my precious charge at early dawn, take the coach to M—, flee to the port of —, cross the Atlantic, and seek a quiet, humble home in New England, where I would support myself and him by the labour of my hands.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

“MY DEAR FRIEND,— “If you are not so compassionate as to dine to-day with Louisa and me, we shall be in danger of hating each other for the rest of our lives, for a whole day's tete-a-tete between two women can never end without a quarrel.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

If, then, we cannot trust what we see with the naked eye, why should we trust what we see through a microscope? Thus, again, the confidence in our senses with which we began deserts us.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

As the man went, however, he was troubled in mind, and thought to himself, "It will not end well; it will not end well!
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

765 In 1797 Montjoie, writing of the Orléaniste conspiracy, to which in an earlier work he had attributed the whole organization of the French Revolution in its first stages, observed: I will not examine whether this wicked prince, thinking he was acting in his personal interests, was not moved by that invisible hand 766 which seems to have created all the events of our revolution in order to lead us towards a goal that we do not see at present, but which I think we shall see before long.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

In English terms of blazon the Napoleonic eagle would be: "An eagle displayed with wings inverted, the head to the sinister, standing upon a thunderbolt or" (Fig. 456).
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It is worn every evening and nearly everywhere, whereas the tail coat is necessary only at balls, formal dinners, and in a box at the opera.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

This block was particularly terrifying, since tubercular patients were not considered as “recuperable material”; they received no treatment; and because of shortage of staff, they were not even washed.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 6 by Various

If this does not change our selfish pleasure into a zealous gratitude, then, indeed, sin must have a dominion over us; for the natural effect would be, that our hearts should burn within us for very shame, and should enkindle us to be thankful with all our strength for blessings so undeserved; to show something of our love to God who has so richly shown his love to us.
— from The Christian Life: Its Course, Its Hindrances, and Its Helps by Thomas Arnold

One little matter which took place toward the next evening, when order was once more restored, the boats in their places, and everyone assured that there was no chance of a fresh outbreak, deserves recording.
— from Mother Carey's Chicken: Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle by George Manville Fenn

Further still, no small number of them deny the right of defence, either to individuals or nations, even when forcibly and wrongfully attacked.
— from The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Part 2 of 4 by American Anti-Slavery Society

Nordau is not exaggerating when he says: "When we have studied the sacrificial rites, the incantations, prayers, hymns, and ceremonies of religion, we have as complete a picture of the relations between our ancestors and their chiefs as if we had seen them with our own eyes."
— from Christianity and Progress by Harry Emerson Fosdick

Although some of the causes of our depression are due to speculation, inflation of securities and real estate, unsound foreign investments, and mismanagement of financial institutions, yet our self-contained national economy, with its matchless strength and resources, would have enabled us to recover long since but for the continued dislocations, shocks, and setbacks from abroad.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

His end was tragic, for one November evening, when returning late with the hounds, he was shot in the woods above the house by a supposed poacher; though in spite of the great hue and cry raised by such a foul deed, the murderer managed to evade justice.
— from Stranger Than Fiction: Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore by Mary L. Lewes

A new edition was published only four months later from a famous press in Paris, and within the year the great scholar-printer, Froben of Basel, produced what we would now call an édition de luxe at the suggestion and under the editorship of Erasmus, and with illustrations by Erasmus' friend, for whom More was to be such a beneficent patron later in England--Hans Holbein.
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh