One of the young men that I sent to Hampton in this way is now Dr. Samuel E. Courtney, a successful physician in Boston, and a member of the School Board of that city.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

This is not so difficult as some persons imagine, but, like other accomplishments, it requires practice to make it perfect.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

[ 1 ] We are just now witnessing a singular phenomenon in British and American philosophy.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Sam buttoned the will carefully in a side pocket; intimating by a look, meanwhile, that he did mean it, and very seriously too.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

For calmer hours in memory's darkest hold, where by altering "so put it back" into "remand it thou," a somewhat ludicrous image is at all events softened.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

And Lancelot slowly rode his warhorse back To Camelot, and Sir Pelleas in brief while Caught his unbroken limbs from the dark field, And followed to the city.
— from Idylls of the King by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

"The river washes along the front of the old fort, and so protects it, but on the sides and behind there are many doors, and these had to be guarded, of course, in the old quarter as well as in that which was actually held by our troops.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

His power, which had been so grudged and envied, and called monarchy and despotism, now was proved to have been the saving of the State; such an amount of corrupt dealing and wickedness suddenly broke out in public affairs, which he before had crushed and forced to hide itself, and so prevented its becoming incurable through impunity and licence.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

By the side of this city there was a stone pyramid in breadth a hundred feet, and in height two hundred feet; in it were many of the barbarians who had fled for refuge from the neighbouring villages.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

He remembered that he had often felt a slight pain in bed, perhaps caused by lying awkwardly, but that had always turned out to be pure imagination and he wondered how his imaginings would slowly resolve themselves today.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

But it is my opinion that government has done far more to prevent monopoly and special privilege in business than to favor it; and nevertheless, monopoly has grown.
— from The Book of Life by Upton Sinclair

The weapons were pistols, Sir Hew, by a slight passing infirmity, being disabled from the use of the sword.
— from Old Friends: Essays in Epistolary Parody by Andrew Lang

The whole reminds us of mythology and erudition, while at subsequent periods it became customary in this
— from The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 5 (of 6) From the Period of the Revival of the Fine Arts to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Luigi Lanzi

For days after that the child was tender with her elder aunt, and made a splendid poem in blank verse upon the late Captain James Murray, which Bell was never to see, but Ailie treasured.
— from The Daft Days by Neil Munro

The promoters themselves indicate a lack of faith in their own preparation, for they advise the use of old and efficient forms of treatment along with Chionia—​heart tonics and laxatives in passive congestion of the liver, mercurial purge or podophyllin and sodium phosphate in “biliousness,” and quinin in malaria.
— from The Propaganda for Reform in Proprietary Medicines, Vol. 1 of 2 by Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry (American Medical Association)

“Thank you, a secular paper is bad enough for me.”
— from A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells

She brought it to me—trembled as she placed it before me—seemed unwilling to let go her hold, and her hand still grasped the cup, as if she would take it away again.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat