"I have bidden you to join your hands," said he, "not in earthly affection, for ye have cast off its chains for ever, but as brother and sister in spiritual love and helpers of one another in your allotted task.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

In the prostate, a b , are seen irregularly shaped abscess pits, communicating with each other, and projecting upwards the floor of this body to such a degree, that the prostatic canal appears nearly obliterated.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

So to the Exchange, and thence home to dinner with my brother, and in the afternoon to Westminster hall, and there found Mrs. Lane, and by and by by agreement we met at the Parliament stairs (in my way down to the boat who should meet us but my lady Jemimah, who saw me lead her but said nothing to me of her, though I ought to speak to her to see whether she would take notice of it or no) and off to Stangate and so to the King’s Head at Lambeth marsh, and had variety of meats and drinks, but I did so towse her and handled her, but could get nothing more from her though I was very near it; but as wanton and bucksome as she is she dares not adventure upon the business, in which I very much commend and like her.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Parent had got up; he was unsteady on his legs, dazed and bewildered, and saying, “I shall see you again later on,” he went out, holding on to the wall, for the floor seemed to roll like a ship.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

With him come a Tribe, all Brothers and Sisters it seems; while others, really such, are deemed no Relations.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Whether thou be’st he or no, Or some enchanted trifle to abuse me, As late I have been, I not know: thy pulse Beats, as of flesh and blood; and, since I saw thee, 115 The affliction of my mind amends, with which, I fear, a madness held me: this must crave— An if this be at all—a most strange story.
— from The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

more, supplied by Jos, this family of four people, attended by a single Irish servant who also did for Clapp and his wife, might manage to live in decent comfort through the year, and hold up their heads yet, and be able to give a friend a dish of tea still, after the storms and disappointments of their early life.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The boar, however, had not quite hidden himself, for his ears stuck out of the bush; and when he shook one of them a little, the cat, seeing something move, and thinking it was a mouse, sprang upon it, and bit and scratched it, so that the boar jumped up and grunted, and ran away, roaring out, ‘Look up in the tree, there sits the one who is to blame.’
— from Grimms' Fairy Tales by Wilhelm Grimm

was washed out by a painter, who in the day time raised a ladder, and with a pot and brush washed the writing quite out, threw down his pot and brush and said it should never do him any more service, in regard that it had the honour to put out rebels’ hand-writing.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

How cool and buoyant and scintillant it sounds.
— from The Devourers by Annie Vivanti

[204] When however alum, or sulphate of alumina is added, its sulphuric acid liberates the chromic acid, leaving a basic alumina salt in solution, and this fact has been utilised in some modern tanning processes.
— from The Principles of Leather Manufacture by H. R. (Henry Richardson) Procter

Scalped, shattered, and burnt as she is, she still holds a spark of life as long as we are there.
— from Dixmude: The epic of the French marines (October 17-November 10, 1914) by Charles Le Goffic

He was very young, and, apart from a special knowledge of his business, extremely ignorant; but it was revealed to him at this moment, a babe and suckling in such matters, that something had happened to him, that he could never be the same again.
— from Quinneys' by Horace Annesley Vachell

There was a deserted beach of comminuted shells, its glare as bright as snow in sunshine.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

O dear!—Souse me, won't you?—It does make me laff so—you and Baby all settled in so cosy and comfie in your little home, and now turned out, and got to find a new house before night or leave the Country.
— from Redcoat Captain: A Story of That Country by Alfred Ollivant

They roll their eyes and bounce about so, I should die of fright,” cried Rose, clasping her hands tragically.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

She remained motionless a moment, then came down like a bolt and said: “I saw thy steed under the old pear-tree which stands before the southern gate of the great town.”
— from Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and Magyars by Jeremiah Curtin