I shall remember the Transfiguration partly because it was placed in a room almost by itself; partly because it is acknowledged by all to be the first oil painting in the world; and partly because it was wonderfully beautiful.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

We varied the legal character of these proceedings by going to see some perspiring Wax-work, in Fleet Street (melted, I should hope, these twenty years); and by visiting Miss Linwood’s Exhibition, which I remember as a Mausoleum of needlework, favourable to self-examination and repentance; and by inspecting the Tower of London; and going to the top of St. Paul’s.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Listen, Natalie: when you realize how serious and responsible a business it is you will be the first to thank me.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

To the Arctic Regions and Back in Six Weeks.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

When we understand a word, there is a reciprocal association between it and the images of what it "means."
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The man had an injury against the object of his hatred, and that was something; though it was less than he supposed, for there dwelt in the man no such deadly rage and resentment as burned in his own breast.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

When the bodies of Goneril and Regan are brought in he asks merely, 'Alack, why thus?'
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

They are similarly raised, and repeat as before, in turn, the words, “Assuredly I will not do thee any shame whatever” ( Sahya ta’buleh buat satu apa kamaluan di-atas awak ).
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

O'er hills, dales, and rocks, Away be it whirl'd, Till the golden locks Are all comb'd and curl'd!"
— from Grimm's Fairy Stories by Wilhelm Grimm

Similar miraculous removals of stones are reported and believed in other parts of Wales.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Try drawing an apple, and put a real apple beside it.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are told by Mr. L. M. Turner, who was stationed by the United States Signal Service in Alaska from 1874 to 1881, that the natives assert that this form is “a resident, and breeds in the vicinity of St. Michaels; also that it is a coast bird, i. e., not going far into the interior, and that it can live a long time in winter without food, as it remains for days in the protection of the holes about the tangled roots of the willow and alder patches.”
— from Birds and Nature Vol. 09 No. 1 [January 1901] by Various

Pepe Castro and Ramon, as being intimate with the family, were made welcome without ceremony.
— from Froth: A Novel by Armando Palacio Valdés

Beyond the walls the town assumes a very different character; elegance, taste, and comfort, and those features which mark the progress of art and refinement, are brought into immediate view; while numerous cottages, and several villas of handsome design and finely situated, throw an air of luxury and domestic comfort over the rural suburbs, the natural character of which is highly favourable to buildings of this description.
— from The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places and Picturesque Scenery of Great Britain Vol. 2 by W. (William) Finden

They follow a routine, and bleeding is too generally the commencement of it.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

For all practical purposes I believe this light (which carries five No. 6 Bray's union jets, and which we use as a portable light at repairs and breakdowns) is as efficient and economical a form as it is possible to make for ordinary rough work.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 481, March 21, 1885 by Various

Wild deeds they did as they rushed onward, and struggled and fought among themselves, up and down, and round and backward, in the fury of their blind hot youth.
— from Sanitary and Social Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley