'Thou art not.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Paint me, then, a room seventeen feet by twelve, and not more than seven and a half feet high.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

No more shalt thou be loved and pitied by living hearts, till a new generation has been born, and thy own heart lies cold, cured of all its sorrows.—The Epigrams henceforth become, not sharp and bitter; but cruel, atrocious, unmentionable.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Thus, on the one hand, his veyola (maternal kinsmen) have, according to all native ideas of right and law, a strong claim on the canoe.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

xlvi: "Remember the former things of old, and know there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure."
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

No one wished him harm, of course, for all had from the very first done Prohartchin justice, and had decided in Mark Ivanovitch's words that he, Prohartchin, was a good and harmless fellow, though by no means a man of the world, trustworthy, and not a flatterer, who had, of course, his failings; but that if he were sometimes unhappy it was due to nothing else but lack of imagination.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Then my poor audience appears to me as an oasis where the stream has dried, up, and I am unkind to Piotr Ignatievich, and silent and morose as if he were guilty of such thoughts and not I myself.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

" Acting forthwith on this decision she ordered two little slaves during her absence to watch over the beautiful Persian, and not to allow Noureddin to enter should he come.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Forgive these tears; they are not the drops of weakness, but remorse.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Nay, by swift doom coming like the thief at night, ere seven weeks went by, two of the little party were removed from all anxieties of land or sea.
— from The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville

"No, there was a bushel basket partly full of potatoes on the landing, and he fell into those and never hurt himself at all.
— from The Girl Scouts at Home; or, Rosanna's Beautiful Day by Katherine Keene Galt

The angels, not so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes!
— from Poems You Ought to Know by Elia Wilkinson Peattie

In one of the hall windows was a cracked pane, and through it the wind screamed, and sobbed, and wailed. Were there ships at sea, this awful night?
— from John Herring: A West of England Romance. Volume 3 (of 3) by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Those intuitions, then, must be either real being or contingent existences; not the latter, for they all bear the marks of necessity and universality; then they must be the real and necessary being, and therefore the principles of things, and not simply principles of science.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

Then he chose the stoutest bow among them all, next to Robin's own, and a straight gray goose shaft, well-feathered and smooth, and stepping to the mark—while all the band, sitting or lying upon the greensward, watched to see him shoot—he drew the arrow to his cheek and loosed the shaft right deftly, sending it so straight down the path that it clove the mark in the very center.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

I am aware that their Judge Advocate, Joseph Marsh of Rochester, N. Y. has filed in his plea, (see Advent Harbinger, Nov. 9th,) that we are under the law of grace, the new testament, and not the law of Moses, which he asserts embraced the ten commandments.
— from A Vindication of the Seventh-Day Sabbath and the Commandments of God With a Further History of God's Peculiar People from 1847-1848 by Joseph Bates

The room whose walls bore ample testimony to its occupant's sense of the comedy of a writer's life, witnessed the supreme achievement in the “animated nature” of She Stoops to Conquer .
— from A Georgian Pageant by Frank Frankfort Moore

“Nothing would please me more, but I’m wet, and my horse is tired and needs a feed.
— from The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace

The wild tracks and narrow paths, sometimes skirting precipices of enormous depth, naturally suggested thoughts of danger.
— from The Sunny South: An Autumn in Spain and Majorca by John William Clayton

The fishes, the hope of the angler, no more rose to the fly.
— from Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Volume 3 (of 3) Consisting of Historical and Romantic Ballads, Collected in the Southern Counties of Scotland; with a Few of Modern Date, Founded Upon Local Tradition by Walter Scott