Finally, having lived fifty-nine years, Giovanni was [Pg 213] seized by pleurisy and in a few days departed this life, wherein, had he survived a little longer, he would have suffered many discomforts, there being left in his house scarce as much as sufficed to give him decent burial in S. Stefano al Ponte Vecchio.
— from Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects, Vol. 01 (of 10) Cimabue to Agnolo Gaddi by Giorgio Vasari

“You're going to Broxton, I suppose?” said Arthur, putting his horse on at a slow pace while Adam walked by his side.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

He shouted after us, but in so strange a phraseology that we knew not what he meant, nor whether to be encouraged or affrighted.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

"He never lets me see his anxiety, but is so sweet and patient with me, so devoted to Beth, and such a stay and comfort to me always, that I can't love him enough.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

"He never lets me see his anxiety, but is so sweet and patient with me, so devoted to Beth, and such a stay and comfort to me always that I can't love him enough.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Belief in such stellar and planetary influences has pervaded every part of the world, and gave rise to astrological dances.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

But if so singular a phenomenon were intended more would have been made of it.
— from The Authoress of the Odyssey Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands by Samuel Butler

We cannot say how widely, by means of electric force, they reach; but if so subtile a power does, as we have reason to suppose, permeate all space, and all solid matter, there may be no spot in the whole universe where the knowledge of our most secret thoughts and purposes, as well as our most trivial outward act, may not be transmitted on the lightning’s wing; and it may be,
— from The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock

Conchopsis possesses at the aboral hinge not the two prominent caudal horns, which mark the following genus Conchoceras , but in some species a peculiar ligament connects the aboral ends of both valves.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

But I saw smiles and pathos in the ruggedness of his expression of congratulation as he said a few words of hope that Utah would fulfill every promise made, on her behalf, by her own people, and every happy expectation that had been entertained for her by her friends.
— from Under the Prophet in Utah; the National Menace of a Political Priestcraft by Frank J. Cannon

[Pg 15] Doubtless no part of the earth has been made the subject of so many books in so short a period as Africa.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam

We have both, I see, swords and pistols; alight immediately, and receive the satisfaction which your wounded honour demands.”
— from The History of Duelling. Vol. 1 (of 2) by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

To speak French with her lover would not do, as the maid understood it; hence it was that in Vienna in the years of the Revolution they forbade this language very judiciously, because it so surely and pestilentially spreads a certain equality ,-- freedom follows,--between the nobility and the servile orders.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

Till this minute I swear I could have told you; but in such straits a poor little tailor such as I might forget his own father’s honored name!”
— from Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Complete by Georg Ebers

Tacitus, describing the Germans, says: "They are a pure, unmixed, and independent race; there is a family likeness through the nation, the same form and features, stern blue eyes, ruddy hair; a strong sense of honor; reverence for women; religious, but without 214 a ritual; superstitiously believing in supernatural signs and portents, but not in a priesthood; not living in cities, but in scattered homes; respecting marriage; the children brought up in the dirt, among the cattle; hospitable, frank, and generous; fond of drinking beer, and eating preparations of milk."
— from Nineteenth Century Questions by James Freeman Clarke