He said to me:— “I can do this, all that can be at the present.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

When all was ready, a band of robust men, attended by a guard of exorcists, carried one of the cars down to the sea on the right side of the village graveyard, and set it floating in the water.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Let them fear the dread judgement of God, lest, for the gratification of their carnal desires, they incur the torments of eternal punishment.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

For they looked at the soul alone and their actual deeds, and not at wealth piled high and hoary with age, nor at the power that had come down to them from some grandfather or great-grandfather.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

In the royal city there lived a poor old woman who used to pick up cow-dung from the fields, make it into cakes, dry them in the sun, and sell them in the market for fuel.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

The troops of the tarpans are subdivided into groups of twenty to thirty individuals, each group usually living apart, and only uniting in a compact phalanx when a common danger threatens, or a necessity arises of migrating from one region to another.
— from The Desert World by Arthur Mangin

"They live in Chavanon, do they not?" asked Mrs. Milligan.
— from Nobody's Boy Sans Famille by Hector Malot

The Society gave its consent, deciding that the period of exhibition should be from the 21st of April to the 8th of May, and only objecting to the proposal that money should be taken at the doors for admission.
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook

843 We have here three separate passages, from which we may conclusively infer that the normal and habitual condition of the Christians during the eighty-four years we are considering, and, if we accept the last two passages, during a much longer period, was a condition of peace, but that peace was not absolutely unbroken.
— from History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 1 of 2) by William Edward Hartpole Lecky

exclaimed Afer, detaining her with his hand, and giving a slight laugh, ‘I have no consuming desire to make your worthy father’s acquaintance; and, besides, there is no occasion to take him from his work.
— from Neæra: A Tale of Ancient Rome by Graham, John W. (John William), active 1886-1887

'You've waited till I came down to have your cocktail.'
— from The Explorer by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

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— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting

“4. Evolution is compound when, along with this primary change from an incoherent to a coherent state, there go on secondary changes due to differences in the circumstances of the different parts of the aggregate.
— from Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative; Vol. 2 of 3 Library Edition (1891), Containing Seven Essays not before Republished, and Various other Additions. by Herbert Spencer

"Control deck to power deck.
— from Danger in Deep Space by Carey Rockwell

A rather confused notion of these facts has formed itself in the minds of several critics, and I can discern the proof of this in the language they use.
— from The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Alfred Binet