We occasioned the greatest excitement on board all—an excitement greatly relished by ourselves, and especially by our two men, who, now under the influence of a dram of Geneva, seemed resolved to give all scruple, or fear, to the wind.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

They only sicken me with a sense of failure.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Perhaps they encouraged and stimulated him to exertion, for, during the next two weeks, all his spare hours, late at night and early in the morning, were incessantly devoted to acquiring the mysteries of book-keeping and some other forms of mercantile account.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

All day, the bar being closed, he brooded alone, shut out from home, from the excitement of his resort, from Carrie, and without the ability to alter his condition one iota.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

With this resolve, he soon began To build a hut, of reeds and leaves, And when that needful work was done He gathered in his store, the sheaves Of forest corn, and all the fruit, Date, plum, guava, he could find, And every pleasant nut and root By Providence for man designed, [83] A statue next of earth he made, An image of the teacher wise, So deft he laid, the light and shade, On figure, forehead, face and eyes, That any one who chanced to view That image tall might soothly swear, If he great Dronacharjya knew, The teacher in his flesh was there.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

I ax your pardon, sir, acknowledging you for to be captaing at this present; but I claim my right, and steps outside for a council.”
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

the wood also white soft and reather porus tho tough.—No 5. is a species of fir which arrives to the size of Nos. 2 and 4, the stem simple branching, diffuse and proliferous.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The value of the statement that ‘the relative strength of the opposing forces never appreciably altered in our favour’ will become apparent as the book is read, and as it is shown that the same British units, reinforced only by a weak composite Division drawn from the II Corps, were attacked by a succession of fresh German Corps, that the same units who repulsed the attacks at Langemarck on 23rd October, were in line at Gheluvelt on 31st October when the Prussian Guard attacked on 11th November.
— from Ypres 1914: An Official Account Published by Order of the German General Staff by Otto Schwink

He procured his downfall by a succession of foolish acts.
— from A Short History of English Liberalism by W. Lyon (Walter Lyon) Blease

From the Heart of the Settlements we are now got into the Cow-pens; the Keepers of these are very extraordinary Kind of Fellows, they drive up their Herds on Horseback, and they had need do so, for their Cattle are near as wild as Deer; a Cow-pen generally consists of a very large Cottage or House in the Woods, with about four-score or one hundred Acres, inclosed with high Rails and divided; a small Inclosure they keep for Corn, for the family, the rest is the Pasture in which they keep their calves; but the Manner is far different from any Thing you ever saw; they may perhaps have a Stock of four or five hundred to a thousand Head of Cattle belonging to a Cow-pen, these run as they please 23 in the Great Woods, where there are no Inclosures to stop them.
— from The Paths of Inland Commerce; A Chronicle of Trail, Road, and Waterway by Archer Butler Hulbert

"Light and airy—light and airy, Sure, I feel a sort of fairy,"
— from The Jolliest School of All by Angela Brazil

— Publication and sale of first edition.
— from Sword and Pen Ventures and Adventures of Willard Glazier by John Algernon Owens

This evidence was quite conclusive to the minds of the gentlemen who investigated the subject, and they published it in 1817, together with their Report, in which they declared that, "after a careful inquiry into the merits of the case, conducted, as they trust, in a spirit of fairness and moderation, they can perceive no satisfactory reason for changing their opinion."
— from The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson Comprising Also a History of the Invention and Introduction of the Railway Locomotive by Samuel Smiles

She concealed her pretty figure with clumsy padding, she browned her white face, she covered her yellow hair with a wig, and entering, she bowed low to her renegade husband and spoke only French, which he had never before heard her speak.
— from Faithful Margaret: A Novel by Simpson, J. M., Mrs.

But as our belief in the building of the Pyramids by men is not only grounded on the internal evidence afforded by these structures, but gathers strength from multitudinous collateral proofs, and is clinched by the total absence of any reason for a contrary belief; so the evidence drawn from the Globigerinoe that the chalk is an ancient sea-bottom, is fortified by innumerable independent lines of evidence; and our belief in the truth of the conclusion to which all positive testimony tends, receives the like negative justification from the fact that no other hypothesis has a shadow of foundation.
— from Discourses: Biological & Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

The substance termed by the Malays “Gutta Percha” is not the produce of the Isonandra Gutta , Hook., but that of a botanically unknown tree, a species of Ficus , I am told.
— from New York Journal of Pharmacy, Volume 1 (of 3), 1852 Published by Authority of the College of Pharmacy of the City of New York. by College of Pharmacy of the City of New York

Now with a speed of from 150 to 180 miles every four-and-twenty hours, she ought to have covered nearly fifty degrees.
— from Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery by Jules Verne