"A leper," explained my uncle.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

With all these impositions, actresses and ballet-girls are proverbially more tractable than actors, less exacting, more uncomplaining, more unfailingly prompt in their attendance and in the discharge of their arduous duties.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

All the remarks about annealing, lumps, etc., made under the previous method apply here.
— from Laboratory Manual of Glass-Blowing by Francis C. (Francis Cowles) Frary

They looked through him, as if they saw with a lucidity even more unendurable than his, what was going on in Tanqueray's soul.
— from The Creators: A Comedy by May Sinclair

Their songs are to a large extent made up on the spur of the moment, and form a sort of running comment on what they are doing, or on what is going on around them.
— from India and the Indians by Edward Fenton Elwin

Still nothing whatever happened, until at last even Matilda unclosed her eyes.
— from The Tinted Venus: A Farcical Romance by F. Anstey

In the management of a Locomotive Engine, many unforeseen circumstances page 14 p. 14 may occur, requiring the use of that discretion which experience alone can confer, and which it would be almost impossible to comprise in the particular instructions contained in the following pages, which, however, the writer believes to contain all the leading principles of Engine-driving.
— from Practical Rules for the Management of a Locomotive Engine in the Station, on the Road, and in cases of Accident by Charles Hutton Gregory

They would be calmed only by a little earth, mixed up with spittle, which Friar Ange put into my mouth in reciting the prayer of St Comis.”
— from The Queen Pedauque by Anatole France

We should ever hold fast the assurance of that changeless, infinite, and everlasting love which has taken us up in our low and lost estate, made us "sons of God," and will never fail us, never let us go, until we enter upon the unbroken and eternal communion of our Father's house above.
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Down sank the Prince on his knees in the corner of the room, while over him stood Witikind, pale with anger, his arm outstretched, and his fist clenched, repeating in tones hoarse from excitement, but waxing louder, and louder every moment, “Unsay what you have said, unsay what you have said!”
— from The Hope of the Katzekopfs; or, The Sorrows of Selfishness. A Fairy Tale. by Francis Edward Paget