—and to have it submitted to the judgment of my intelligent fellow townsmen.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

And further, if I should listen to him, I should find that in many passages he has a great deal to say about temperance and self-control; but "the water will not run," as they say.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Though heaven itself should fall on his head, he will not be offended.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I told her I should die without her.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

No lady is ashamed to have it standing in her library.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

For through his innate stupidity the latter looks upon his revenge as justice pure and simple; while in consequence of his acute consciousness the mouse does not believe in the justice of it.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

sagay a matured coconuts at the stage when one can hear the water but the husk is still green.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In one of the houses, it seemed to be the fourth, the lackey was a dry little, puny fellow, with a chain across his waistcoat.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Nay, their Veneration towards him is so great, that when they are in other Company they speak and act after him; are Wise in his Sentences, and are no sooner sat down at their own Tables, but they hope or fear, rejoice or despond as they saw him do at the Coffee-house.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

'The hour itself,' said Scrooge triumphantly, 'and nothing else!'
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

bonds might be converted, at the pleasure of the holder, into such certificates at five per cent.
— from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 by Jefferson Davis

Who could have been otherwise than happy in such a scene and at such a time?
— from Eric, or Little by Little by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

That he in season sheared may be, And the shepherd be warm though his flock be cool:
— from Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock

It would have been intolerable shame to her if she had known that she was watched, through a little hole in the door, as a precaution against any attempt on her life.
— from The Billow and the Rock by Harriet Martineau

'I infer from what he told me that he is subject to such attacks.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

" T he sounder died abruptly into silence and Nadia sobbed convulsively as she threw herself into Stevens' arms.
— from Spacehounds of IPC by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Yes, he said to himself, in searching for them, I may find Amy’s friends.
— from Hawk's Nest; or, The Last of the Cahoonshees. A Tale of the Delaware Valley and Historical Romance of 1690. by James M. (James Martin) Allerton

“We should like to have it, sir.”
— from The Soul of Nicholas Snyders; Or, The Miser of Zandam by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Well! sooner or later we'll have better fun; The heart is still hopeful at thirty-one.
— from Chats in the Book-Room by Horace N. Pym