This we shall fasten, for when it is there none can emerge; so at least says the superstition.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

if arms are clashed afar, Bide still he cannot: ears stiffen and limbs quake; His nostrils snort and roll out wreaths of fire.
— from The Georgics by Virgil

Praxiteles, in all his pictures of love, feigns Cupid ever smiling, and looking upon dancers; and in St. Mark's in Rome (whose work I know not), one of the most delicious pieces, is a many of [5521] satyrs dancing about a wench asleep.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Life stretched before her as one act of penitence; and all she craved, as she dwelt on her future lot, was something to guarantee her from more falling; her own weakness haunted her like a vision of hideous possibilities, that made no peace conceivable except such as lay in the sense of a sure refuge.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Line-end hyphens were retained in past participles in i- , y- and equivalent, and after the prefixes out- and to- ; they were omitted before common endings such as -lich , -ship , -ness , -full .
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

The truth is, the Jewish founders of Christianity entertained such a low, narrow, contracted, and mean opinion of Deity and the infinite distinction and distance between the divine and the human, that their theology reduced him to a level with man; and hence they usually described him as a man.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

“The place next to you was conveniently empty,” said a lady to my neighbour who was drinking with me.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Sanguinem corruptum emaculat, scabiem abolet, lepram curat, spiritus recreat, et animum exhilarat.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

He could easily spare a little for the missionary box.
— from Under Many Flags by Elsie Singmaster

One hundred people, consisting of the President and cabinet, senators, congressmen, editors, scientific and literary men and women, were the favored party who occupied the gigantic ship.
— from Doctor Jones' Picnic by S. E. (Samuel E.) Chapman

Stein's surveys of universal and national bibliographies are inadequate and so, too, are the sections dealing with philosophy, chemistry, education, sport, and linguistics.
— from A History of Bibliographies of Bibliographies by Archer Taylor

And yet the look upon my face must have been strange, for Cousin Edie screamed, and leaving me she ran off to the house.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

Because of the inaccessible nature of the country inhabited by many of the Philippine wild tribes, they would be able to hold their own for many years, and there would result a condition similar to that which has prevailed for so long in Achin, while the Moros with their ability to take to the sea and suddenly strike unprotected places would cause endless suffering and loss of life.
— from The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) by Dean C. (Dean Conant) Worcester

"We cannot have it for very long in the country either," said Aunt Lizzie, "because our weather is so changeable.
— from Woodside or, Look, Listen, and Learn. by Caroline Hadley

They practise scarcely any cultivation, except sometimes a little mandiocca, but generally live on wild fruits, and abundance of fish and game: their food is entirely produced by the river, consisting of the Manatus , or cow-fish, which is as good as beef, turtles, and various kinds of fish, all of which are in great abundance, so that the traders say there are no people who live so well as the Múras; they have therefore no occasion for gravatánas, which they do not make, but have a great variety of bows and arrows and harpoons, and construct very good canoes.
— from Travels on the Amazon by Alfred Russel Wallace

The reason of this originates in their not adoring the Lord; therefore they do not receive light from the sun of the angelic heaven, but from the angelic society; for an angelic society, when permitted by the Lord, can exhibit such a light to spirits who are in a lower region.
— from Earths In Our Solar System Which Are Called Planets, and Earths In The Starry Heaven Their Inhabitants, And The Spirits And Angels There by Emanuel Swedenborg

Not one man in many millions could endure such a life, and no man, perhaps, ought to endure it.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 120, October, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

Allow the clerk ever such a little memory, and the similarity of action will disappear; for the fact of remembering what happened to him on the first day he went out in search of dinner will be a modification in him in regard to his then condition when he next goes out to get his dinner.
— from Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler