But, as I said in my first lecture, the brand of pantheism offered is hard for them to assimilate if they are lovers of facts, or empirically minded.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Then she came down the street with her eyes blazing, and I saw the crippled wretch standing by the lamp-post and shaking his clenched fists in the air as if he were mad with rage.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

But this being, as I said before, the great crisis and extremity of the infection, it can be no complete list.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Bug-at nga batu ang iligpit sa binanggud balanghuy, Use a heavy stone to press out the juice of the grated cassava.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In the first East, thou now beginst to shine, Suck'st early balme, and Iland spices there, 15 And wilt anon in thy loose-rein'd careere At Tagus, Po, Sene, Thames, and Danow dine, And see at night thy Westerne land of Myne, Yet hast thou not more nations seene then shee, That before thee, one day beganne to bee, 20 And thy fraile light being quench'd, shall long, long out live thee.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

He appeared in ragged and dirty clothes, muddy boots, and in spite of the vigilance and expert observation of the police officers, he turned out to be hopelessly drunk.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In this document, Bacon acknowledges himself to be guilty of corruption; and in reply to each special charge admits in every instance the receipt of money or valuable things from the suitors in his court; but alleging in some cases that it was after judgment, 24 or as New Year’s gifts, a custom of the times, or for prior services.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Two miles out, a quarter of a mile from the highway, was the prehistoric fort called Mai Dun, of huge dimensions and many ramparts, within or upon whose enclosures a human being as seen from the road, was but an insignificant speck.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

[The Peasantry.] VERT (Madame Michel), wife of the preceding, commonly called Vermichel, as was the case with her husband; a mustached virago, a metre in width, and of two hundred and forty pounds weight, but active in spite of this; she ruled her husband absolutely.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

If he spoke disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron stile ten fingers long was to be thrust red-hot into his mouth.
— from King Solomon's Goat by George Willard Bartlett

Vasantaka now notices that the jasmine has been covered with countless buds, as if smiling disdainfully upon the queen's favourite Madhavi .
— from Tales from the Hindu Dramatists by R. N. Dutta

"You took my breath away," I said, with an ease which I was very far from feeling.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Finally I grew bolder, and I said, trembling, for it was the first time I had spoken to her, 'Good evening, mademoiselle.'
— from Luxury--Gluttony: Two of the Seven Cardinal Sins by Eugène Sue

For he felt once more his spirit faint, And his strong knees quake beneath, And it seemed the mountains flamed all red At the coming of his breath;
— from Beyond the Hills of Dream by Wilfred Campbell

"Conniston, she would be angry if she knew you had enlisted.
— from The Red Window by Fergus Hume

Such a procession formed of the fairest beauties of France would be an indecent spectacle; but let it consist of Roman ladies, you will all gaze with the eyes of the Volscians and feel with the heart of Coriolanus.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“This is a [Pg 190] splendid robe, I’m telling you, fine color, and not worn nearly as badly as I should have expected in the summer-time.
— from The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Emerson Hough

"I have some papers I have been thinking of reading to you, to get your opinion of them before I put them in a book; and I shouldn't be surprised if there was a paper of candy in my drawer besides."
— from Neighbor Nelly Socks Being the Sixth and Last Book of the Series by Sarah L. Barrow

Fine days were never long enough in the little garden-house facing the mountains: in the mornings an opal light; the sunrise stalking across their summits, while a cloud of white mist would sweep down the valley out to the blue sea-line; all day bright light and dazzle, a wind soft and yet racy; at night an abrupt sunset, leaving for a few moments a rose-pink after-glow, followed by an intense silence.
— from In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory