Yes, I was moved—I, Van Helsing, with all my purpose and with my motive for hate—I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyse my faculties and to clog my very soul.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

work a change, modify, vamp, superinduce; transform, transfigure, transmute, transmogrify, transume[obs3]; metamorphose, ring the changes.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

"In what wise men shall smite him, Or the Cross stand up again, Or charity or chivalry, My vision saith not; and I see No more; but now ride doubtfully To the battle of the plain.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Quant à l'avenir d'internet en général, je pense que ce médium va se populariser, tout en étant en prise avec le développement d'un réseau commercial qui va contrecarrer l'esprit convivial du début.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

“You should feed your cold,” Mrs Verloc said dogmatically.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

À l'origine, ce mot velours s'employait par opposition à cuir, parce que souvent le premier donnait l'idée d'une chose plus douce que le second.
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

This is no my ain, &c. She's bonie, blooming, straight, and tall, And lang has had my heart in thrall; And aye it charms my very saul, The kind love that's in her e'e.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

4. Proeliō commissō multī vulnerātī sunt , after the battle had begun , or when the battle had begun , or the battle having been joined, many were wounded.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Mouth as large as the diameter of the cup, margin very slightly everted.
— from Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the Late Captain Owen Stanley, R.N., F.R.S. Etc. During the Years 1846-1850. Including Discoveries and Surveys in New Guinea, the Louisiade Archipelago, Etc. to Which Is Added the Account of Mr. E.B. Kennedy's Expedition for the Exploration of the Cape York Peninsula. By John Macgillivray, F.R.G.S. Naturalist to the Expedition. — Volume 1 by John MacGillivray

I remonstrated with him on the cruelty, injustice, and dishonour of such conduct; but he cut me very short by observing that ' his money was his own—he had made it by his industry—he could leave it to whom he chose—and that if I insisted upon marrying Harriet Wilmot I need not darken his threshold afterwards .'
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

He will have a cargo of West Indian sugar on board—destination Amsterdam, consignee Mynheer van Smeer—everything perfectly straight and square.
— from Lord Tony's Wife: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

A ladder led to a loft, and up this I climbed, and concealed myself very snugly among some bales of hay upon the top.
— from The Great Shadow and Other Napoleonic Tales by Arthur Conan Doyle

Having no heart for his work, he did not go on with alacrity, and of course made very slow progress.
— from Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbott

These libels, by unknown authors, criticised me very severely, and asserted that prince Timuso was insulted in the choice of my son.
— from Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. by Ludvig Holberg

So much of the play at first seems to be aimless running and shouting, or throwing about of toys and breaking them if possible, so much quarrelling and fighting and weeping seem involved with any attempts at social life on the part of the children; there seems very little desire to co-operate, and very little desire to construct; as a rule, a child roams from one thing to another with apparently only a fleeting attempt to play with it; yet on the other hand, to make the problem more baffling, a child will spend a whole morning at one thing: quite lately one child announced that he meant to play with water all day, and he did; another never left the sand-heap, and apparently repeated the same kind of activity during a complete morning; visitors said in a rather disappointed tone, "they just play all the time by themselves."
— from The Child under Eight by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

“This is a crime, Mynheer van Systens.”
— from The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas

Indeed my want of money soon began to cause me very serious anxiety in Paris.
— from My Autobiography: A Fragment by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller