We know to-day, better than any period has ever known, the scientific diagnosis of disease, but we are ignorant of the specific remedy, and a disease must be known a long time, and known very thoroughly, before its method of cure is discovered; yet we must put up with it, in the meantime, and let it pass."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

He was trembling all over with curiosity, and perhaps his excitement kept him from seeing the dark shape that blurred with the earth just beyond the red something, or he may have taken it for a shadow.
— from The Last of the Chiefs: A Story of the Great Sioux War by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

Possessing in a greater degree than any person he ever knew, the power of magnetizing others, she had drawn about her a circle of girl friends whom she entertained and delighted by her exuberant talent.
— from Daughters of the Puritans: A Group of Brief Biographies by Seth Curtis Beach

If she knows and does the will of God so much better than man, why did he not reveal himself to her and place his earthly kingdom in her hands?
— from Men, Women, and Gods; and Other Lectures by Helen H. (Helen Hamilton) Gardener

He shall be a person having expert knowledge respecting delinquency, and the care and treatment of delinquents and shall devote his entire time to the duties of his office.
— from The Journal of Prison Discipline and Philanthropy 1919 (New Series, No. 58) by Pennsylvania Prison Society

Life on the ancestral estate of the Litvinoffs was utterly different from anything Percival had ever known before, but he had conceived an unbounded admiration and affection for his friend and employer, and he threw himself into his new duties with an ardour which made boredom simply impossible, and with a perseverance almost equalling that which he had displayed in the dissipation of his little fortune.
— from The Prophet's Mantle by E. (Edith) Nesbit

Whereupon, after pleadings and entreaties that extended through weeks, Professor Wert took a dislike to the young man, believed him a liar, and classified him as a man of monstrous selfishness for not giving him a glimpse of this wonderful screed that was older than the oldest any philologist had ever known or dreamed.
— from The Night-Born by Jack London

She made a daily pilgrimage to the chapel of Our Lady of Grace; hung votive garlands on the wall, and passed hours either kneeling before the altar, or looking out from the brow of the hill upon the angry sea.
— from Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists by Washington Irving

Her sharp struggle against poverty had entirely killed all boldness of thought in her and all interest in anything outside the narrow bounds of this struggle.
— from A Slav Soul, and Other Stories by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin