The vodka had upset him and his head was reeling, but instead of lying down, he put all his clothes together in a bundle, said a prayer, took his stick, and went out.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

For my own part, as heaven is my judge, and to which I shall ever make my last appeal—I know no more of Calais (except the little my barber told 252 me of it as he was whetting his razor) than I do this moment of Grand Cairo ; for it was dusky in the evening when I landed, and dark as pitch in the morning when I set out, and yet by merely knowing what is what, and by drawing this from that in one part of the town, and by spelling and putting this and that together in another—I would lay any travelling odds, that I this moment write a chapter
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

They are harmless in one sense, but filthy; and bad smells are personified in them.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

"In refusing to commit yourself you are but showing a proper scientific reserve," said Challenger, with massive condescension.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

He replied, “Don't believe me upon my word; I have a better security, a pledge for my constancy, which it is impossible to see and to doubt.”
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

Between theocratic architecture and this there is the difference that lies between a sacred language and a vulgar language, between hieroglyphics and art, between Solomon and Phidias.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It is adopted by statesmen and political philosophers; it is eagerly laid hold of by the multitude; those who govern and those who are governed agree to pursue it with equal ardor: it is the foremost notion of their minds, it seems inborn.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Moreover, Dunstan enjoyed the self-important consciousness of having a horse to sell, and the opportunity of driving a bargain, swaggering, and possibly taking somebody in.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Now that the book is too rare to do us any harm, we may admit that the pastiche was not only highly amusing, but showed a perverse cleverness amounting almost to genius.”
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

The red tiles of the floor are full of depressions brought about by scouring and periodical renewings of color.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

"God forbid that you should go without sleep on my account, and be sick again perhaps.
— from The Flower Girl of The Château d'Eau, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XVI) by Paul de Kock

Demi tasse DINNER Cream of flageolet beans Antipasto Celery Sea bass, Montebello Roast tenderloin of beef, vert pré Field and beet salad Alexandria pudding Coffee Scrambled eggs with smoked salmon.
— from The Hotel St. Francis Cook Book by Victor Hirtzler

In the York wills, John Wynd-hill, Rector of Arnecliffe, A.D. 1431, bequeaths a pair of amber beads, such as Piers Ploughman says a priest ought “to bear in his hand, and a book under his arm;” and, curiously enough, in the next sentence he leaves “an English book of Piers Ploughman;” but he does not seem to have been much influenced by the popular poet’s invectives, for he goes on to bequeath two green gowns and one of murrey and one of sanguine colour, besides two of black, all trimmed with various furs; also, one girdle of sanguine silk, ornamented with silver, and gilded, and another zone of green and white, ornamented with silver and gilded; and he also leaves behind him— proh pudor —his best silver girdle, and a baselard with ivory and silver handle.
— from Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages Third Edition by Edward Lewes Cutts

The soldiers were with the mob at Broad street and Pennsylvania avenue.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July

Dr. Jeffries Wyman, [196] in his paper on the "Symmetry and Homology of Limbs," has a distinct chapter on the "Analogy between Symmetry and Polarity," illustrating it by the effects of magnets on "particles in a polar condition."
— from On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart