Something of this calm and solitude crept over me, and I dozed in my gloomy cavern.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

I showed myself a little concerned and uneasy at this account, and inquired of the old captain how it came to pass that the trustees should thus dispose of my effects, when he knew that I had made my will, and had made him, the Portuguese captain, my universal heir, &c. He told me that was true; but that as there was no proof of my being dead, he could not act as executor until some certain account should come of my death; and, besides, he was not willing to intermeddle with a thing so remote: that it was true he had registered my will, and put in his claim; and could he have given any account of my being dead or alive, he would have acted by procuration, and taken possession of the ingenio (so they call the sugar-house), and have given his son, who was now at the Brazils, orders to do it.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

No other interpretation being possible we are obliged to regard allotropic change as some change of molecular {5} arrangement.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

There was one common creed, one ritual, one worship, one sacred language, one Church, a single code of manners, a uniform scheme of society, a common system of education, an accepted type of beauty, a universal art, something like a recognized standard of the Good, the Beautiful, and the True.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

A wave of disgust at my cowardice and suspicion came over me to aid me toward the decision that my curiosity was already crying for and so, when the day wore near an end, I set forth—for Blaine's, the "coffee-joint."
— from The Lost Cabin Mine by Frederick Niven

[103] Room XIX. contains a small collection of Muranese and Paduan school paintings, and others of no great importance.
— from Venice and Its Story by Thomas Okey

Then, in a complete and sudden change of mood he snickered.
— from Do Unto Others by Mark Clifton

While the young soldier thought it all over, carbine and sabre came out more and more
— from Old Man Savarin, and Other Stories by Edward William Thomson

Man, therefore, we may call a species; Christian, or Mathematician, we can not.
— from A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive by John Stuart Mill

To each of the four, there corresponds a sham counterpart or mimic, a branch under the general head flattery — taking no account of what is really best, but only of that which is most agreeable for the moment, and by this trick recommending itself to a fallacious esteem.
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 2 by George Grote

In a space of shining and fragrant clarity you have a vision of marble columns and stately cities, of men august in single-heartedness and strength and women comely and simple and superb as goddesses; and with a music of leaves and winds and waters, of plunging ships and clanging armours, of girls at song and kindly gods discoursing, the sunny-eyed heroic age is revealed in all its nobleness, in all its majesty, its candour, and its charm.
— from Views and Reviews: Essays in appreciation: Literature by William Ernest Henley