“'Mr. Phelps, sir!' said he, looking at me in bewilderment.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

She had only stopped to question them and make inquiries, being persuaded that Stepan Trofimovitch must have reached Spasov long before.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It was something as exciting in a way, and even touching in its foredoomed futility, as the efforts at moral intercourse between the inhabitants of remote planets.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Yet even the direst apparent poverty in Jewtown, unless dependent on absolute lack of work, would, were the truth known, in nine cases out of ten have a silver lining in the shape of a margin in bank.
— from How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York by Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis

For he who sins a second time Wakes a dead soul to pain, And draws it from its spotted shroud, And makes it bleed again, And makes it bleed great gouts of blood, And makes it bleed in vain!
— from Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde

"Full many a mango is born to lie unseen," I paraphrased, "and waste its sweetness on the stony ground.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

And by my body's action teach my mind A most inherent baseness.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

= organa orgeldrēam m. sound of a musical instrument , Bl .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

Exactly at the same moment a man in blue, who had been appointed as his valet, said very solemnly— “I have put out your clothes, sir.”
— from The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Did I profess to teach them the conduct befitting ladies?—and did I permit and, he doubted not, encourage them to strangle their mother-tongue in their throats, to mince and mash it between their teeth, as if they had some base cause to be ashamed of the words they uttered?
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

A coarse cloth made from tow, i.e., the short fibres of flax combed out by the hetchell, and made into bags or very coarse clothing.
— from Every Day Life in the Massachusetts Bay Colony by George Francis Dow

All creatures played the carpenter and mason in building up for themselves their little islands in the infinite sea; but grovelling man looks not over his shoulder, and sees not that all is like him.
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. I. by Jean Paul

By Edward S. Ellis , A. M. Illustrated by J. Steeple Davis .
— from With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga by W. Bert (Walter Bertram) Foster

In my own household I have made it a point of honour to demand no labour which I would not be willing to do myself; I might fail in strength, but morally I would be willing to undertake any work required by me, and from the day I realised what I required from others if I ate meat, I became an abstainer from it, for no surer ethical truth can be stated than that we have no moral right to demand from the hands of another, work we would not be willing to undertake ourselves.
— from The Golden Rule Cook Book: Six hundred recipes for meatless dishes by M. R. L. (Maud Russell Lorraine) Sharpe

The work done by the men and women of the Salvation Army aided materially in bringing the heart of America into France.
— from History of the World War: An Authentic Narrative of the World's Greatest War by Richard Joseph Beamish

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

In truth I am convinced that every Gentleman there present at the moment, felt that something more deep and more intensely bitter lay at the Root of this Quarrel, between the young Lord and the great and popular Artist.
— from His Majesty's Well-Beloved An Episode in the Life of Mr. Thomas Betteron as told by His Friend John Honeywood by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

Now for a moment I became the unwilling vortex of that mob of anxious men and women—I who by, my own confession knew Kagig, I who had sent Kagig a message, I who five minutes ago was on the verge of being hanged in the greasy noose that still swung above the ladder through the hole in the roof—I who therefore ought to be thoroughly plastic-minded and obedient to demands.
— from The Eye of Zeitoon by Talbot Mundy

Similar earth, mixed with sand, is used as mortar in building with brick and stone.
— from South and South Central Africa A record of fifteen years' missionary labors among primitive peoples by Hannah Frances Davidson

"From our examination of this volume, we do not hesitate to recommend it to our readers as a useful book on a most interesting branch of science.
— from Endless Amusement A Collection of Nearly 400 Entertaining Experiments in Various Branches of Science; Including Acoustics, Electricity, Magnetism, Arithmetic, Hydraulics, Mechanics, Chemistry, Hydrostatics, Optics; Wonders of the Air-Pump; All the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards, &c., &c. to Which is Added, a Complete System of Pyrotechny; Or, the Art of Making Fire-works. by Unknown