The young man talking to Kirby sat with an amused light in his cool gray eye, surveying critically the half-clothed figures of the puddlers, and the slow swing of their brawny muscles.
— from Life in the Iron-Mills; Or, The Korl Woman by Rebecca Harding Davis

'You are a chit and a little idiot,' returned Bella, 'or you wouldn't make such a dolly speech.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Hammer has suggested the derivation of the word Carbine from Karáwinah (as he writes), and a link in such an etymology is perhaps furnished by the fact that in the 16th century the word Carbine was used for some kind of irregular horseman.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

When I do anything, I am very far from thinking that any man is able to do anything at all like it: the action belongs to me....
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

No, you are at last immune from any of those sudden attacks of new fashion fever that result in loss of judgment.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

[Exeunt ABIGAIL and LODOWICK into the house.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

This must not be regarded as a logical inversion.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

paN- v [A; a2] listen intently.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

They are represented as beautiful, slender maidens in the full bloom of youth, with hands and arms lovingly intertwined, and are either undraped, or wear a fleecy, transparent garment of an ethereal fabric.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

And as life, its own phenomenon, is assured to the will, so is the present, the single form of real life.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

"Nevertheless, in dwelling on this planet, analogies at least, if not resemblances, are to be found.
— from Urania by Camille Flammarion

"That was as good as a lesson in 'Ancient and Modern History,'" claimed Tubby, reluctant to go.
— from The Boy Scouts Under Fire in Mexico by John Henry Goldfrap

It has roused up now and again to groan under the tyranny of new masters; but now, deserted in its robe of ivy, a mound, and a few stones, it sleeps through the sunshine and the rain, and with every year sinks a little and a little into itself and the kind covering earth.
— from Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by C. A. (Catharine Amy) Dawson Scott

I was wedged in between Redruth and a stout old gentleman, and in spite of the swift motion and the cold night air, I must have dozed a great deal from the very first, and then slept like a log up hill and down dale through stage after stage, for when I was awakened at last it was by a punch in the ribs, and I opened my eyes to find that we were standing still before a large building in a city street and that the day had already broken a long time.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

And then there was an awful cry and a splash in the water, and I screamed and screeched for help, but no one came, and the fog was too thick to see, and at last I got away round the corner and along the beach to Whitecliff.
— from Kingsworth; or, The Aim of a Life by Christabel R. (Christabel Rose) Coleridge

In the writings of the son the father makes a considerable figure, while his mother, 'of the family of Buchan, a woman of almost unexampled piety and goodness,' as he styles her, is but a dim name in the background, as with John Stuart Mill who has written a copious autobiography, and left it to the logical instincts of his readers to infer that he had a {12} mother.
— from James Boswell by W. Keith (William Keith) Leask

Why can't you leave the universe alone and let it mean what it likes?
— from Magic A Fantastic Comedy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

After a long interview with the Chief of Detectives, Mr. Merrick said impressively: "Now, understand, sir; not a hint of this to the newspaper folks.
— from Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

—Green and masticot; or pink and a little indigo, shaded with indigo.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale