He has his fabulous monster, which has scales under its belly, but is not a lizard, which has pustules on its back, but is not a toad, which inhabits the nooks of old lime-kilns and wells that have run dry, which is black, hairy, sticky, which crawls sometimes slowly, sometimes rapidly, which has no cry, but which has a look, and is so terrible that no one has ever beheld it; he calls this monster “the deaf thing.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“Madame Bonacieux is not at liberty this evening,” replied the husband, seriously; “she is detained at the Louvre this evening by her duties.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

But I noticed at last, that he seemed to show signs of wanting to tell me something.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The plan laid down by Dr. Lewis challenged attention by its novelty at least.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Mrs. Morgan wanted to know how the Haunted Wood came by its name, and laughed until she cried when she heard the story and Anne’s dramatic account of a certain memorable walk through it at the witching hour of twilight.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

The burden is not a local one, peculiar to those first hearers, but one which is borne by the whole human race.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

4. This bridge is not as long as the other.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

Before they came, Avonlea had seemed thousands of miles away; those letters brought it near and linked the old life to the new so closely that they began to seem one and the same, instead of two hopelessly segregated existences.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

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— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

When even my grave is remembered no more, Unmark’d by never a cross nor a stone; Let the plow sweep through it, the spade turn it o’er, That my ashes may carpet thy earthly floor, Before into nothingness at last they are blown.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

“Blackbeard is not a liar.
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

“Um, um, um-m-m-m,” sounds, which may stand for smothered kisses of rapture and thanksgiving that baby is not a lost child.
— from Suburban Sketches by William Dean Howells

Constipation is an inhibition or restraint of function, but is never a loss of function.
— from Outwitting Our Nerves: A Primer of Psychotherapy by Josephine A. (Josephine Agnes) Jackson

[p 390] head and shoulders, and it was but too probable that the fractured vertebra had caused a bruise if not a lesion of the spinal cord.
— from The Fruit of the Tree by Edith Wharton

The beach is narrow, and lies at the foot of a bluff bank of auriferous sand.
— from Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining by John S. (John Shertzer) Hittell

[9] ); it is unhygienic when not promotive and conservative of health; and it is unæsthetic if the concomitant psychical reactions are not in harmony with the beautiful in nature and life.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

But is not all life implied in this?
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. II by Marcus Dods

It should, however, by no means be lightly entered upon, since the necessity for the inauguration of such a policy would be regretted by the best sentiment of our people and because it naturally and logically might lead to consequences of the gravest character.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

The Pays Basque is not a land of libraries, and it is not easy to collect these legends on the spot, and at the same time to get together the books necessary for a comparison of them with those of other countries.
— from Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language by Wentworth Webster

"But I need a large, long, hot drink alla same.
— from The Rider of Golden Bar by William Patterson White