In truth, he had awakened that morning from a sleep deep as annihilation; and during those first few moments in which the brain, like a Samson shaking himself, is trying its strength, he had some dim notion of an unusual nocturnal proceeding.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

The brain within its groove Runs evenly and true; But let a splinter swerve, 'T were easier for you To put the water back When floods have slit the hills, And scooped a turnpike for themselves, And blotted out the mills!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

But, like a snake, she glided from between my arms, whispering in my ear as she did so: “To-night, when everyone is asleep, go out to the shore.”
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

The body is domicilium animae , her house, abode, and stay; and as a torch gives a better light, a sweeter smell, according to the matter it is made of; so doth our soul perform all her actions, better or worse, as her organs are disposed; or as wine savours of the cask wherein it is kept; the soul receives a tincture from the body, through which it works.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I could not conceal my thoughts, because this at all times was impossible to me, and although the dinner was a very good one, and Olivet did the honors of it perfectly well, I began it in an ill humor, eating but little, and speaking still less.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

All the facts in natural history taken by themselves, have no value, but are barren, like a single sex.
— from Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Crossing the hall, they passed down one of the principal tunnels, and the wavering light of the lantern gave glimpses on either side of rooms both large and small, some mere cupboards, others Page 100 [Pg 100] nearly as broad and imposing as Toad's dining-hall.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

[Pg 14] 'I wish to be left alone,' said Scrooge. '
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I am to be off a piece and blow a tin horn if I see any danger; but stead of that I will baa like a sheep soon as they get in and not blow at all; then whilst they are getting his chains loose, you slip there and lock them in, and can kill them at your leasure.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

The Santa Fe army of the West appears to have done, and to be doing, nobly; but war, war, war all over Mexico, by land and sea, say I for one.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

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— from Saratoga and How to See It by R. F. Dearborn

She stood already like a sun, tranquil and far away in her heaven, but like a sun she seemed to move obediently around the little day of her mother, and shed on her a soft warmth.
— from Titan: A Romance. v. 2 (of 2) by Jean Paul

By ‘Lubricity,’ a supposed sliminess may be intended, or the old fable of ‘licking’ the prey; and the only reasonable interpretation of the ‘Sting’ is that the old Saxon word styng did imply a wound punctured or pierced with any fine, sharp instrument; and the venomous tooth is not so very unlike an insect’s sting after all.
— from Snakes: Curiosities and Wonders of Serpent Life by Catherine Cooper Hopley

All spread their charms, but charm not all alike; On different senses different objects strike; Hence different passions more or less inflame, As strong or weak, the organs of the frame; 130 And hence one master passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope