" Hearing my words, the young man recovered himself, and when I had ended, he said, "The reasons, Prince, that have caused me to be buried in this place are so strange that they cannot but surprise you.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

It looked as if it were a sort of enchanted land, into which no storms could follow them; but Mrs Miller, who had a face which might have been intended to protest against sunshine, shook her head solemnly and said, coming back to the counter,— “There’s trouble enough in the world, to be sure, and it’s hard when the Thorpe letters, as have gone together these years, has got to part company.
— from Thorpe Regis by Frances Mary Peard

Unless you are really bringing in the perishing and saving souls, what is the good?
— from The Perpetual Curate by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

She had to be in the picture, and so she came in as though she were the central figure, as though she were the quintessential England.
— from Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I do not believe in these predictions," and she smiled reassuringly.
— from A Little Girl in Old New York by Amanda M. Douglas

The girls are covered with new cloths of cotton or silk, and brought into the pandal, and seated screened off from one another.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 5 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

In they flew, and mysteriously disappeared, to be rapidly ejected again in a violent fit of coughing; and into the eyes, when unclosed, they soon found their way and, by inserting the proboscis and sucking, speedily made them sore; neither were the nostrils safe from their attacks, which were made simultaneously on all points, and in multitudes.
— from Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 1 by Grey, George, Sir

[Pg 156] Nearly all people born in this period are strange, strong characters, equally feared, loved, and hated.
— from Palmistry for All by Cheiro

I also advised the use of water, not only for drink, in small draughts, but, if the pain and soreness should be troublesome, as an external application to the part affected.
— from Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott