A hundred thousand people lived in rear tenements in New York last year.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

She had just reached this part of her sentence, when in Pao-yü's rooms was heard a continuous sound of wrangling; but as what transpired is not yet known, the ensuing chapter will explain.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

Allow me to offer my inquiries with reference to the physical welfare of Mrs. Copperfield in esse, and Mrs. Traddles in posse,—presuming, that is to say, that my friend Mr. Traddles is not yet united to the object of his affections, for weal and for woe.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Not indeed that I in the least connect with my impression the invidious name you use.
— from The Beast in the Jungle by Henry James

“This sweet flower,” said Evelyn, “borne on a branch set with thorns and accompanied with the lily, are natural hieroglyphics of our fugitive, umbratile, anxious, and transitory life, which, making so fair a show for a time, is not yet without its thorns and crosses.”
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

“Surely this is not your husband’s writing, madam.”
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

I only know that I never yet heard her admit any instance of a second attachment's being pardonable.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by a happiness that is not your own.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Again, for some time, we were both silent; yet, unwilling to leave him to reflections which could not but be to my disadvantage, I summoned sufficient courage to say, “There is no young creature, my Lord, who so greatly wants, or so earnestly wishes for, the advice and assistance of her friends, as I do: I am new to the world, and unused to acting for myself;-my intentions are never willfully blameable, yet I err perpetually!-I have hitherto been blessed with the most affectionate of friends, and, indeed, the ablest of men, to guide and instruct me upon every
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

"This is New Year's Day; and, I think if we live to see another, we shall not easily forget it."
— from Recollections of Rifleman Harris, (Old 95th.) with anecdotes of his officers and his comrades by Benjamin Harris

,” said Roland, when they reached the track, “I have taken you up here not that I needed your guidance, for I know this land as well as you do.
— from The Sword Maker by Robert Barr

The play had eventually been produced at the Lyceum Theatre in New York, with A. P. Burbank in the leading role, and Clemens and Howells as financial backers.
— from Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) by Mark Twain

Abide ye here, ye warriors, for this is not your expedition, nor the work of any man but me alone; wait till ye know which is triumphant, for I will win the gold and save my people, or death shall take me.”
— from Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race by M. I. (Maud Isabel) Ebbutt

Double-fee perceiving that Pantagruel was taken up with contemplating those things, Let us go further, sir, said he to him; all this is nothing yet.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 by François Rabelais

He was usually very good natured, but on such occasions, when he was entrusted with the care of anything; he did not like to be interfered with, and if any one attempted to touch anything which he held in his mouth he would growl at them in a most ferocious manner, as if he would say, "Take care, this is not yours, and I shall treat you harshly if you undertake to carry off what belongs to another.
— from The Pearl Box Containing One Hundred Beautiful Stories for Young People by Anonymous

Be assured of this, that I never yet have seen any man whom my heart has been more inclined to favour; and that, at present, I neither receive, nor desire the addresses of any other.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

Dom. in Monte i, 20) on the words, "Give to him that asketh of thee" (Matt. 5:42): "You should give so as to injure neither yourself nor another, and when you refuse what another asks you must not lose sight of the claims of justice, and send him away empty; at times indeed you will give what is better than what is asked for, if you reprove him that asks unjustly."
— from Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint