She had stretched her hands up with that higher and better look, and now she turned again, and folded them round Lizzie's neck, and rocked herself on Lizzie's breast.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

H2 anchor Suppression Of Reason With the Introduction of False, we may joyn also the suppression of True Philosophy, by such men, as neither by lawfull authority, nor sufficient study, are competent Judges of the truth.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

‘Why, you’re all covered with hoar-frost, old fellow!’ said the eldest brother, looking at Nikita’s snow-covered face, eyes, and beard.
— from Master and Man by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

They were as dogs, wild beasts, lepers, and no soul that valued its hope of eternal life would throw it away by meddling in any sort with these rebuked and smitten outcasts.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

If n , the number of frogs, be even, we require ( n ²+ n ) / 2 moves, of which ( n ²- n ) / 2 will be leaps and n simple moves.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

She was afraid of being left alone now; she followed the servant out of the room, and went to the nursery.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The white man who begins to break the law by lynching a Negro soon yields to the temptation to lynch a white man.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

For such a purpose, therefore, it was an advantage to me that I was a poor Italian scholar, reading it but little, and not speaking it at all, nor understanding a tenth part of what I heard spoken.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

In youth, the sun brings light alone— No shade then rests upon the sight—
— from Poems by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

'It is such a horrid thing (says he) to think of, that a Man who had lived in such strict Terms of Amity with another (the Proof does not come out so as to say Friendship) who had pretended so much Love for him, could not bear to be out of his Company, would ride an hundred Miles an End to enjoy it, and would fight for him, be the Cause right or wrong; yet now could be so little moved to see him in such Misery of Body and Mind as to be able to rebuke him, and rather ridicule than pity him; because he was more affected by what he felt, than he had seen a Malefactor (hardened perhaps by Liquor, and not softened by previous Sickness) on his going to Execution.'
— from Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Sarah Fielding

The venerable Shylock, who ever pleaded poverty, had made some £300 by lending a napoleon, say, on January 1st, which became a sovereign on February 1st; not to speak of the presents and "benevolences" which the debtor would be compelled to offer his creditor.
— from The Land of Midian (Revisited) — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But, in her ignorance of the way, she became panic-stricken at the thought of being late, and no sooner had she found the shop she wanted, than she fled back again in order to be at home when William came.
— from Night and Day by Virginia Woolf

"MY DEAR SCOTT,—... I am sorry to read what you tell me of your lameness, but legs are not so obedient to many of us at our age as they were twenty years ago, non immunes ab illis malis sumus , as the learned Partridge and Lilly's Grammar tells us.
— from The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford by Walter Scott

Masses of food, scooped out and converted into lamps, were arranged in various places, and betel leaves and nuts scattered all over the figure.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

In constant action, the brilliant light at night slowly fades: then suddenly breaks out as bright as before.
— from Great Disasters and Horrors in the World's History by Allen Howard Godbey

So came the talk on the fishing of the brook that ran before their door, and how the trouts therein were but little, and not seldom none at all; and even therewith came these words into Birdalone’s mouth, she scarce knew how: My lady, why do we not fish the lake, whereas there be shoal places betwixt us and the eyots where lie many and great fish, as I have seen when I have been swimming thereover?
— from The Water of the Wondrous Isles by William Morris