In the deepest of sleeps, too, when there is less blood in the cerebral veins, and the muscles are generally relaxed, and the pulse is slower, and the respiratory movements are fewer in number, consciousness departs, and man apparently lapses into a state of absolute nothingness which materialists, not unreasonably, presume must be akin to death.
— from Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

We are as much, at least, in a state of Nature in formed manhood as in immature and helpless infancy.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

I am not afraid of Hog Cholera any more; at least I am satisfied I can cure it with Dr. Stephens' great remedy.
— from One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed by C. A. Bogardus

Both as poet and as psychologist, Amiel makes another link in a special tradition; he adds another name to the list of those who have won a hearing from their fellows as interpreters of the inner life, as the revealers of man to himself.
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

The fern was very high here, over a tall man's head in height, and was very thick and matted, and lying in a slanting direction.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Hermione reached Saint-Cloud half an hour after midnight, and left it at six in the morning.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. II, 1822 to 1825 by Alexandre Dumas

It was with no small joy that I saw a man, at last, in a shop, in whose window hung a paper of pins, a red handkerchief, and two tea cans, a solitary, sedate apprentice, who leaned over the counter and looked out through the open house door.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various