Besides, it is deemed a foolish whim for a slave-mother to manifest concern to see her children, and, in one point of view, the case is made out—she can do nothing for them.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"In the name of which sovereign, Captain?" "In my own name, sir!"
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I must be profoundly related to Byron's Manfred: of all the dark abysses in this work I found the counterparts in my own soul—at the age of thirteen I was ripe for this book.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At that time it was quite clear in my own mind that the Thing had come from the planet Mars, but I judged it improbable that it contained any living creature.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The rays that Langley disowned, as well as those which he fathered, were occult, supersensual, irrational; they were a revelation of mysterious energy like that of the Cross; they were what, in terms of mediæval science, were called immediate modes of the divine substance.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

If that be so, it is but folly To seek a cure for melancholy: Ask where it lies; the answer saith In Change, in Madness, or in Death.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Then I marked the place carefully in my own mind, so that I’d find it again.
— from The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

One of the first operations when they came on shore was to build temples, and to found cities, in memory of their principal ancestors, who, in process of time, were worshipped as Deities.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

He is celebrated in many of the hymns of the Rig Veda.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

No. Tinned ware, as it is properly called, is made of thin iron plates, coated over with tin by dipping them into a vessel full of melted tin.
— from Evenings at Home; Or, The Juvenile Budget Opened by John Aikin

They were followed by maid-servants carrying magnificent boxes of carved ivory, mother-of-pearl, or sandal-wood.
— from The Usurper: An Episode in Japanese History by Judith Gautier

I come next to the question of the secular students in arts, most or all of whom would be clerks in major or minor orders.
— from Cambridge Papers by W. W. Rouse (Walter William Rouse) Ball

I am not clear in my own mind what to do."
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

I now gave a respite to the rats and moles, and set up as a butcher at Tregaron; and for one sheep that I bought of the farmers, I stole three, and slaughtered them either by moonlight on the hills, or by candle in my own cottage.
— from The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti Descriptive of Life in Wales: Interspersed with Poems by T. J. Llewelyn (Thomas Jeffery Llewelyn) Prichard

Literature descended from her high altar to lend it dignity; and the long, silent library displayed row upon row of the masters, appropriately clad in morocco or calf,—Smollett, Macaulay, Gibbon, Richardson, Fielding, Scott, Dickens, Irving and Thackeray, as though each had striven for a tablet here.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

Life-sized figures of different gods and demons are carved in stone in front of the columns in many of the halls of the temple, the columns themselves frequently white-washed, while the figures are left in the untouched stone and look in contrast like bronze figures, their elaborate detail and undercutting emphasizing this suggestion.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane

Metz, F., on the fire-walk among the Badagas, xi. 9 Metz, cats burnt alive in Midsummer fire at, xi. 39 Mexican calendar, its mode of intercalation, vi. 28 n. 3 —— custom of veiling the images of the gods during the king's sickness, iii. 95 n. 8; of making images of gods out of dough and eating them sacramentally, viii.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12) by James George Frazer