[18] Father Healy took the enchantment away, when he was here on a visit, and said that it was a Druid enchanted, and that to get out of the rock was one part of the releasement, and that there would be a second and complete releasement of the Druid.’
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

" "As vile a spot as I ever saw in my life," said Mr. Palmer.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

CVI In a very advanced state of society passion-love is as natural as physical love among savages.
— from On Love by Stendhal

Therefore I gave him one of my three bright shillings, which he received with much humility and veneration, and spun up with his thumb, directly afterwards, to try the goodness of.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

The acid Salt dissolved in Water, is the same with Oil of Sulphur per Campanam , and abounding much in the Bowels of the Earth, and particularly in Markasites, unites it self to the other Ingredients of the Markasite, which are, Bitumen, Iron, Copper, and Earth, and with them compounds Allum, Vitriol, and Sulphur.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

The sound I mean may be either a vowel, a semi-vowel, or a mute.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

A faint erroneous ray Glanc'd from th' imperfect surfaces of things, Flung half an image on the straining eye; While waving woods, and villages, and streams, And rocks, and mountain-tops, that long retain The ascending gleam, are all one swimming scene, Uncertain if beheld.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

And, backing from the room, he shouted, “Farewell, ye tempters!” and vanished amid shouts of laughter and applause.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Amidst these offences of foulness and violence, and so many iniquities, are sins of men, who are on the whole making proficiency; which by those that judge rightly, are, after the rule of perfection, discommended, yet the persons commended, upon hope of future fruit, as in the green blade of growing corn.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She dropped the black lashes like a veil as she went on: "Mr. Brownley, I have just come from Sands Landing.
— from Friday, the Thirteenth: A Novel by Thomas William Lawson

A very awkward silence ensued, which the general broke by saying: "Captain Dutton is right; this child's play has lasted long enough.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol III, No 13, 1851 by Various

[Pg 51] As is revealed and attested in many expressions of her maturer years, Poetry was to her the most serious, as well as the most enthralling, of pursuits, while she was also a very accomplished scholar.
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

Mary Beck felt as if she were looking out of a very small and high garret window at a vast and surprising world.
— from Betty Leicester: A Story For Girls by Sarah Orne Jewett

One morning, a trapper of a violent and savage character, discovering that his traps had been carried off in the night, took a horrid oath to kill the first Indian he should meet, innocent or guilty.
— from The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West by Washington Irving

44–55, a very able speech, delivered in 1771.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

"Adelaide," at length the young man said in a low, musical tone, full of richness and pathos—"Do you not feel, sometimes, when your mind rises into the region of pure thoughts, and ranges free among the beautiful and glorious images that then come and go like angel visitants, a sense of loneliness, because another cannot share what brings to you such exquisite delight?" "Yes—often and often," replied the maiden lifting her eyes to those of Fenwick, and gazing at him with a tender expression.
— from Home Lights and Shadows by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

Weights and Measures: This information is presented in Appendix G: Weights and Measures and includes mathematical notations (mathematical powers and names), metric interrelationships (prefix; symbol; length, weight, or capacity; area; volume), and standard conversion factors.
— from The 2007 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The great scene with the Nurse had many fine things in it; she has evidently worked hard at it line by line, and that speech of Juliet's, with its extraordinary dramatic capabilities— "Shall I speak ill of him that is my husband?"— was given with admirable variety and suppleness of intonation.
— from Miss Bretherton by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.