In the beginning they inhaled it unknowingly: you and I may have sent some of our breath towards infecting them, when we uttered our conforming falsities or drew our silly conclusions: or perhaps it came with the vibrations from a woman's glance.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sickroom in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected".
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

* I passed lately by a certain church; I was struck by the crowd of people in carriages.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

—The bearing of the aristocratic classes shows that, in all the members of their body the consciousness of power is continually playing its fascinating game.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The hope of meeting again in the course of a few years could only put into Catherine's head what might happen within that time to make a meeting dreadful to her.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

[the chicken, or pig] IN CAUL, PLACE IT IN A BAKING DISH AND PUT IT IN THE OVEN TO BE COOKED SLOWLY, AND SERVE.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

Meg had a quiet rapture, and then brooded over the letter, while Jo set the sick-room in order, and Hannah "knocked up a couple of pies in case of company unexpected."
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

So this Bill had several degrees of calling of Parliaments, in case the King, and then the Council, and then the Lord Chancellor, and then the Sheriffes, should fail to do it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

And as pity is an uneasiness which arises from the misfortunes of another, so envy is an uneasiness that proceeds from the good success of another: therefore whoever is capable of pity is capable of envy.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

In every kind of practical work specialization, founded on a more or less arduous course of preparation, is coming to prevail; and in this way individuals, possessing the advantages of the necessary gifts and discipline, are obtaining definite and stimulating opportunities for personal efficiency and independence.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly

The Red Cross flag was hoisted, Dr. Lesser placed in charge, and scores of our soldiers who had been lying on the filthy floors of an adjacent building, with no food but army rations, were carried over, placed in clean cots, and given proper food.
— from A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton

On reaching the Peninsula, however, I learned that the Mackerel "corpse dammee" had been left behind to capture the city of Paris in co-operation with a squadron.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

The change of practice in certain circumstances and at a certain period becomes expedient; and if it be made, as regards tints in the wool of that nature, the sheep becomes as white as he is needed to be.
— from Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite by Anthony Trollope

Elliot tells me that you had entertained apprehensions of my discretion: what I had done to forfeit with you the character of prudence, I cannot tell, but you will see little or no occasion for any such imputation in this work.
— from Life and Correspondence of David Hume, Volume 1 (of 2) by John Hill Burton

—In which the account of the villages and chiefs subject to the city of Popayan is concluded; and what there is to be said until the boundary of Popayan is passed 114 Chap.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León

(Ap ‘17) Chitwood, O. P. Immediate causes of the great war.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

For all at once my affairs, like the chariots of Pharaoh in crossing the Red Sea, began to drive heavily.
— from The Conquest of Fear by Basil King

The terms which he employed were, under color of pious instructions, cruel insults on her unfortunate situation; and besides their own absurdity, may be regarded as the most mortifying indignities to which she had ever yet been exposed.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

James never arranged the collection or preserved it carefully, but he filled at least one album in early days, and he almost always kept some drawer or box at hand and dropped into it portraits cut from magazines or obtained in other ways.
— from The Letters of William James, Vol. 1 by William James