“At the end of one of the many corridors leading out of our city,” explained Long Thumbs, “there is a rocky chamber which was called by our ancestors Uphaslok, or the Death Hole, because any being which breathes its air for a few moments is sure to die.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

If you chuck everything like this, they'll be thrown on the streets.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I could easily learn to prefer an elephant to any other vehicle, partly because of that immunity from collisions, and partly because of the fine view one has from up there, and partly because of the dignity one feels in that high place, and partly because one can look in at the windows and see what is going on privately among the family.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

London, where, as he often told his customers, Queen Adelaide had appeared, only the very week before, in a cap exactly like the one he showed them, trimmed with yellow and blue ribbons, and had been complimented by King William on the becoming nature of her head-dress.
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

I cannot conceive how such trivial qualities of the fancy, conducted by such false suppositions, can ever lead to any solid and rational system.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

De qué color es la tinta?
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

It crackled so, it burned so clear— Exactly like the picture here.
— from Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann

It has to a certain extent lost the simple faith and religious fervor of the peasants, but the keynote of popular ideals has been faithfully preserved by this class.
— from The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 by Various

Once, when none of his comrades, except Lieutenant Treadaway, were with him, fourteen of the Rebels came suddenly upon them.
— from The Secret Service, the Field, the Dungeon, and the Escape by Albert D. (Albert Deane) Richardson

Here are the Poems—they will explain themselves—as all poems should do without any comment— Ever let the Fancy roam, Pleasure never is at home.
— from Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by John Keats

Then, as the boy sadly and slowly left the room, the man to whom one thousand dollars were no more than one dime to this anxious child, explained, laughingly, to a friend, that "that little fellow was really wonderful; he understood business, and was as much interested in it as a man of forty could be."
— from The Secret of a Happy Home (1896) by Marion Harland

She did not in the least want to talk, she was listening with so much pleasure to the fair promises which her fancy was making, and wherever she turned her eyes they fell on something she could love, The flowers on her bed, the brooch in her hand, the nosegay outside the window, and never dreaming that another—not the man she loved—could have sent it to her, another for whom she cared even less than for the Christians who walked up and down in Paulina's garden, under her window.
— from The Emperor — Volume 06 by Georg Ebers

Making a curtesy, Elsy left the parlor, and entered the room pointed out by Emily.
— from The Trials of the Soldier's Wife A Tale of the Second American Revolution by Alex. St. Clair (Alexander St. Clair) Abrams

The wind-pipe branches out into several millions of fine twig-like tubes, and then each tube ends in a blind extremity, or chamber exactly like this.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 03, April 1883 by Chautauqua Institution

"Oh! demi-toilette , of course," exclaimed Lady Tenderden.
— from The Exclusives (vol. 3 of 3) by Bury, Charlotte Campbell, Lady

But having constantly to pass judgment on my associates, I come ere long to see, as Herr Horwicz says, my own lusts in the mirror of the lusts of others, and to think about them in a very different way from that in which I simply feel .
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James