When people laugh at their own jokes, their 5 wit is very small beer, and is lost in its own froth.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Just a few words I force up, and deeply moved gasp out in broken accents: "I live indeed, I live on through all extremities; doubt not, for real are the forms thou seest . . .
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

The ticking was now low; but as I listened intently, it gradually grew louder and louder, until, to my horror, the colossal frame swayed violently backwards and forwards.
— from Byways of Ghost-Land by Elliott O'Donnell

But if this casualty does happen, and both are in love, it is wonderful to see how easily they float along.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XLI, No. 2, August 1852 by Various

Now in so doing my foot caught in the doublet lying where Godby had dropped it, and I picked it up out of the way; but as I lifted it into the light I let it fall again (even as Godby had done): and now, staring down at it, felt my flesh suddenly a-creep for, as it lay there at my feet, I saw upon one sleeve a great, dark stain that smeared it up from wrist to elbow—the hideous stain of new-spilt blood.
— from Black Bartlemy's Treasure by Jeffery Farnol

Should I tell her that love is logical and simple at bottom, and is less in its transports than in the gentleness it conveys?
— from Woman by Magdeleine Marx

CHAPTER IX THE HALT AND THE BLIND The sweet valley, surrounded by its mountains, was now a sight to quicken the pulse of any heart alive to beauty, as it lay in its long vistas before them; but neither of these two saw the mountains or the trees, or the green levels that lay between.
— from The Sagebrusher: A Story of the West by Emerson Hough

I suppose if there be an "iron" law, it is that of gravitation; and if there be a physical necessity, it is that a stone, unsupported, must fall to the ground.
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Think of the hour when this child was born, and I laid it in your arms and said: 'Take it.
— from The Youth of the Great Elector by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

"My name is 'Lady Bampfylde;' and I like it, if you please: although I remember, Mr Llewellyn, what your views are of matrimony.
— from The Maid of Sker by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore