"I know it," replied West calmly; and, dragging Braith into the alley, pointed to the cellar steps.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Some smart men on the ordinary steamers put on a dark sack suit for dinner after wearing country clothes all day, but in the de luxe restaurant they wear Tuxedo coats.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

that Phillips ’s Leg should be cut off; but who should perform the Operation was the Dispute; at length the Carpenter was appointed, as the most proper Man: Upon which, he fetch’d up the biggest Saw, and taking the Limb under his Arm, fell to Work, and separated it from the Body of the Patient, in as little Time as he could have cut a Deal Board in two; after that he heated his Ax red hot in the Fire, and cauteriz’d the Wound, but not with so much Art as he perform’d the other Part, for he so burnt his Flesh distant from the Place of Amputation, that it had like to have mortify’d; however nature perform’d a Cure at last without any other Assistance.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

At all events, if it involved any secret information in regard to old Roger Chillingworth, it was in a tongue unknown to the erudite clergyman, and did but increase the bewilderment of his mind.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

" Then Ulysses said, "Sir, I do not want to stay here; a beggar can always do better in town than country, for any one who likes can give him something.
— from The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original by Homer

A revolution must find its strength and legitimacy not in the re former's conscience and dream but in the temper of that society which he would transform; for no transformation is either permanent or desirable which does not forward the spontaneous life of the world, advancing those issues toward which it is already inwardly directed.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Come after dinner, but into the other parlour.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sc. i., there arrive at Cyprus, first, in one ship, Cassio; then, in another, Desdemona, Iago, and Emilia; then, in another, Othello (Othello, Cassio, and Desdemona being in three different ships, it does not matter, for our purpose, how long the voyage lasted).
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Then came the running of swift feet over the stones of the court, and Davie burst into the room.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

"Can a dog bark?" inquired the other, who if the memory of my readers goes back that far, they will recall had at one time been a chauffeur for Mr. Pomery.
— from The Motor Rangers Through the Sierras by John Henry Goldfrap

Preparatory commands are distinguished by italics ; those of execution by CAPITALS .
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

But I suppose we may call Shotoku Daishi the Father of historical Japan;—he who, about the end of the sixth century A. D., brought in the culture impetus from the continent.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

Supposing , indeed, religious truth cannot be ascertained, then , of course, it is not only idle, but mischievous, to attempt to do so; then , of course, argument does but increase the mistake of attempting it.
— from The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by John Henry Newman

We can only guess that they underwent very much the same process as other Greek children, any difference being in the direction of rigor.
— from Aristotle and Ancient Educational Ideals by Thomas Davidson

I could enumerate many other examples, but I shall conclude by saying that our Lord favours us in these conquests and discoveries; but if the discoverers afterwards become tyrants, He chastises them severely, as I have myself seen, some of them dying suddenly, which is a thing most to be feared.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

The religion of the people is a superstitious Buddhism; that of the lettered classes a dormant belief in the moral teachings of Confucius.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 01, April to September, 1865 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Various

We may answer this question thus: No catechumen was received into the fold without a clear and distinct belief in that article of the earliest creed, and part of the baptismal profession, “the Holy Catholic Church.”
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

All these of course are details, but in them is apparent much sympathy and concern, so that now, when this great artist and remarkable man is no longer among us, his letters acquire the significance of a far-away, irrevocable caress.
— from Reminiscences of Anton Chekhov by Maksim Gorky