They were a hundred yards away by this time; but he seemed like a relic of Helstone—he was associated with a bright morning, an eventful day, and she should have liked to have seen him, without his seeing
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Clothes were brought to him, and shoes, and every day, a servant prepared a bath for him.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

But if any extreme disturbance (as sometimes it happens) possesses our whole mind, as when the pain of the rack, an impetuous uneasiness, as of love, anger, or any other violent passion, running away with us, allows us not the liberty of thought, and we are not masters enough of our own minds to consider thoroughly and examine fairly;—God, who knows our frailty, pities our weakness, and requires of us no more than we are able to do, and sees what was and what was not in our power, will judge as a kind and merciful Father.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Bazin, who was crossing the ante-chamber majestically in his clerical dress, turned around to see who the impertinent gentleman was who thus addressed him; but seeing his friends he went up to them quickly and expressed delight at seeing them.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Emily was more successful, and they presently entered a spacious and ancient chamber. 'Alas!' exclaimed Dorothee, as she entered, 'the last time I passed through this door—I followed my poor lady's corpse!'
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

On the one hand, I began to think my uncle was perhaps insane and might be dangerous; on the other, there came up into my mind (quite unbidden by me and even discouraged) a story like some ballad I had heard folk singing, of a poor lad that was a rightful heir and a wicked kinsman that tried to keep him from his own.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

When creating a clipping folder, you set an expiration date and specify how many days a clipped story is to be held (maximum 14 days).
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

The Celestial City, he said, he should die if he came not to it; and yet was discouraged at every difficulty, and stumbled at every straw that anybody cast in his way.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

oblivisci omnium posse, quae humanae vitae atrocia et difficilia accidere solent.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Vronsky was not merely acquainted with all the persons whom he was meeting here; he saw them all every day; and so he came in with the quiet manner with which one enters a room full of people from whom one has only just parted.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

[Pg 293] priués de cette lumiere qui a esté donnée au seul homme, il faut conclurre par necessaire consequence, que telle procedure est nulle; cecy est tiré de la Loi premieree, ff. si quadrupes, pauper feciss.
— from The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals by E. P. (Edward Payson) Evans

Mutinous commotion against the constituted authorities, especially dangerous at sea.
— from The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by W. H. (William Henry) Smyth

Mrs Jehoram and the Angel exchanging deep and significant glances.
— from The Wonderful Visit by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

She was now allowed to see Lord Arden every day, and she grew very fond of him.
— from The House of Arden: A Story for Children by E. (Edith) Nesbit

And though, like thy master, thou shouldst bear the scorn of the liars, and even die a short time earlier than thou otherwise mightst, yet wilt thou therefore pass earlier from death unto eternal life and be glorified through Christ.
— from A Treatise on Wood Engraving, Historical and Practical by Henry G. (Henry George) Bohn

—I have attempted to show that the geological record is extremely imperfect; that only a small portion of the globe has been geologically explored with care; that Page 342 [342] only certain classes of organic beings have been largely preserved in a fossil state; that the number both of specimens and of species, preserved in our museums, is absolutely as nothing compared with the incalculable number of generations which must have passed away even during a single formation; that, owing to subsidence being necessary for the accumulation of fossiliferous deposits thick enough to resist future degradation, enormous intervals of time have elapsed between the successive formations; that there has probably been more extinction during the periods of subsidence, and more variation during the periods of elevation, and during the latter the record will have been least perfectly kept; that each single formation has not been continuously deposited; that the duration of each formation is, perhaps, short compared with the average duration of specific forms; that migration has played an important part in the first appearance of new forms in any one area and formation; that widely ranging species are those which have varied most, and have oftenest given rise to new species; and that varieties have at first often been local.
— from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. (2nd edition) by Charles Darwin

Next day the Princess watched the tunnel again in her Magic Picture, and every day afterward she devoted a few minutes to inspecting the work.
— from The Emerald City of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

And ever deeper and stronger grew the sense that his life was in truth, and ever had been, more heartless and dreary than Georgie could imagine.
— from The Old Castle and Other Stories by Anonymous

I find this entry in my notebook dated 5th July 1899, from Boswell: “Talking of a court-martial that was sitting upon a very momentous public occasion, he (Dr. Johnson) expressed much doubt of an enlightened decision; and said that perhaps there was not a member of it who in the whole course of his life had ever spent an hour by himself in balancing probabilities.”
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring