Or, may not its dwellers, 151 overtaken by the pitiless cold, sit with wide-opened eyes and icy glare, stark as marble in chairs of ice, white frosted hair pressed against icy cushions, and hands stiffened around crystal cups filled with frozen wine of topaz hue, while the harper’s fingers cling cramped to the wires stiff as the wires themselves, and the last tones of the singer’s voice lie in feathery crystals of frozen breath white at his feet?
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Helen came and stood before her with such grief and penitence in her countenance that for a moment it conquered the despair that had broken bounds.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

There used to be preserved in the Old Hospital a model in cork
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

And, methinks, I can never lament the rudeness of Lord Merton, as it has more than ever confirmed to me the esteem of Lord Orville.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

[According to Clarendon the officer here alluded to was a major in Cromwell’s own regiment of horse, and employed by him to treat with Charles I. whilst at Hampton Court; but being convinced of the insincerity of the proceeding, communicated his suspicions to that monarch, and immediately gave up his commission.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I can choose my current, and should I find all currents against me, I can make very tolerable headway with the propeller.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

So soon as a nation discovers that it holds in the heads and hearts of its individual citizens the vast mine of knowledge, out of which it may build a just government, then more and more it calls those citizens to select their rulers and to judge the justice of their acts.
— from Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil by W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt) Du Bois

At Paris, just after dark one gusty evening in the autumn of 18-, I was enjoying the twofold luxury of meditation and a meerschaum, in company with my friend C. Auguste Dupin, in his little back library, or book-closet, au troisiême, No. 33, Rue Dunôt, Faubourg St. Germain.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

To find joy in another's trouble is, as man is constituted, not unnatural, though it is wicked; and to find joy in one's own trouble, though it be madness, is not yet impossible for man.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

On the afternoon of the 21st a most important capture was effected by Hodson.
— from A Narrative of the Siege of Delhi With an Account of the Mutiny at Ferozepore in 1857 by Charles John Griffiths

But though these efforts were accompanied by the most lustful thoughts and my imagination created situations of oriental extravagance, I was 13 years old when they first met with success.
— from Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy by Havelock Ellis

Interpret my words with candour and answer me, I conjure you, with confidence and sincerity.”
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Where the allegorical mark is clearly set upon any particular character, or attribute, or event, to that extent we may recognize it; but we can rarely venture to divine further, still less to alter the legends themselves on the faith of any such surmises.
— from History of Greece, Volume 01 (of 12) by George Grote

The Colonel's manner had for a moment imperceptibly changed.
— from The Avenger by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The most spiritual Christians are ready to acknowledge that fasting is an excellent means of drawing us into a deeper and more intimate communion with God.
— from The Gospel Day; Or, the Light of Christianity by Charles Ebert Orr

“And my information comes straight.
— from In Red and Gold by Samuel Merwin

Members of Congress have been here less than a month but by the end of the week--28 days into the new year--every member of Congress will have earned as much in congressional salary as a minimum-wage worker makes all year long.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

I am even in doubt now as to whether I shall pin my fate to my works as a missionary in Central Africa or my scheme that the English should take China, Japan, and Eel-pie Island, with a view to converting the Inhabitants to Christianity.'
— from Under St Paul's: A Romance by Richard Dowling

It is claimed that large cedar canoes of Indian manufacture were early carried from the Pacific coast by fur traders, and New York and Boston shipbuilders took them as models in constructing the celebrated clipper ships which formerly sailed between New York and San Francisco.
— from American Forest Trees by Henry H. Gibson