Countess, may I trouble you also?
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Felicity, felicity—how shall I say it?—is quaffed out of a golden cup in every latitude: the flavour is with you—with you alone, and you can make it as intoxicating as you please.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

—The ripe fruit, called myrobalans in India, is purgative and six of them pounded up and given in decoction operate with certainty, producing 4 or 5 copious evacuations without nausea or other disagreeable symptoms.
— from The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines by T. H. (Trinidad Hermenegildo) Pardo de Tavera

I couldn't have carried it out much better myself, cuss me if I could!"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But this previous condition must itself be something that has happened (that has arisen in time, as it did not exist before), for, if it has always been in existence, its consequence or effect would not thus originate for the first time, but would likewise have always existed.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

The engaging freshness of his personality and the dumbfoundering staleness of his culture make it extremely difficult to decide whether he is worth knowing; for whilst his company is undeniably pleasant and enlivening, there is intellectually nothing new to be got out of him, especially as he despises politics, and is careful not to talk commercial shop, in which department he is probably much in advance of his English capitalist friends.
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

He stood for an instant, and then he crept forward, crouching, menacing, into the room.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

So he said to him, "It seems to me, Senor Knight-errant, that your worship has made choice of one of the most austere professions in the world, and I imagine even that of the Carthusian monks is not so austere."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The foreign policy of the United States is reduced by its very nature to await the chances of the future history of the nation, and for the present it consists more in abstaining from interference than in exerting its activity.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The great church of the Holy Ghost, at Heidelburg, had, for many years, been shared equally by the protestants and Roman catholics in this manner: the protestants performed divine service in the nave or body of the church; and the Roman catholics celebrated mass in the choir.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

It seems that this had prevented her from attending to other duties which they considered more imperative.
— from The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: An Index of the Project Gutenberg Editions by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Therefore, on a certain morning, instead of getting the schooner under way and proceeding to the oyster bank, as usual, the longboat was hauled alongside, and, attired in our very oldest clothes, armed with a ship’s bucket each, and provided with a plentiful supply of disinfectant cloths to fasten over our mouths and nostrils upon reaching the field of action, all hands of us, except the cook and the cabin boy, got into her and pulled away for the shore.
— from Turned Adrift by Harry Collingwood

I am not quoting the Arab to exhort and disturb the somnolent East; rather for cultivated women to recognize that the Comic Muse is one of their best friends.
— from An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit by George Meredith

“I’m about tired out and will leave Brown on deck to call me if there is any change.”
— from The Voyage of the Arrow to the China Seas. Its Adventures and Perils, Including Its Capture by Sea Vultures from the Countess of Warwick, as Set Down by William Gore, Chief Mate by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Suppose that in seeking to cure Mignonne I had made myself ill?
— from Frédérique, vol. 2 by Paul de Kock

There you are, sir!" and Will, having caught the table-cloth from the table, sending the magazines and papers in a shower to the floor, threw it over the poor little black thing, so that, in picking it up, he could muffle its claws, so that it could not scratch.
— from Cricket at the Seashore by Elizabeth Weston Timlow

If I cleared myself, it would be at the cost of her happiness—why should I go back?”
— from Zoraida: A Romance of the Harem and the Great Sahara by William Le Queux

A collection made in the afternoon contained no red shiners, but they were abundant in the same area after dark.
— from Fish Populations, Following a Drought, in the Neosho and Marais des Cygnes Rivers of Kansas by James E. Deacon

She found “the bits o’ poetry,” 294 were all she could manage in the short intervals of time that were her own.
— from Christine: A Fife Fisher Girl by Amelia E. Barr