The ill Consequence of these Reveries is inconceivably great, seeing the loss of imaginary Possessions makes Impressions of real Woe.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

There can be no doubt that the consciousness of the rapid increase of my superstition—for why should I not so term it?—served mainly to accelerate the increase itself.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Unless, therefore, some one 412 had dammed up the Pallacopas again, so that the water might be turned back within the banks and carried down the channel of the river, it would have drained the Euphrates into itself, and consequently the Assyrian country would not be watered by it.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

Sybaris, c. of Lucania, i. 394 -396; ii. 73 . ——, c. of the Bruttii, a colony of the Rhodians, i. 398 , 399 ; iii. 33 . ——, r. of Lucania, i. 394 -397; ii. 73 . ——, ftn of Achaia, ii. 73 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Nothing; I could only take refuge in silence and a fit of childish ill-humour.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If a lizard is heard chirping on the right, it is regarded as a sign of her consent.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

However, when they had been running half an hour or so and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out, "The race is over!"
— from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll

You had better take charge of the receipts, in case anything happens.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The cabmen on the “ranks” in Piccadilly have been often heard to call each [48] other’s attention to the great leader of the Opposition in the following expressive manner—“Hollo, there!
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

“But as for you and your companions, you certainly sin, if, having heard the decrees of the Apostolic see, nay, of the universal Church, confirmed, as they are, by Holy Scripture, you scorn to follow them; for, though your fathers were holy, do you think that those few men, in a corner of the remotest island, are to be preferred before the universal Church of Christ throughout the world?
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

In this latter passage Lord Coke records how, notwithstanding an agreement asserted to have been made in 1575 between the justices of the King's Bench and the judge of the admiralty, the judges of the common law courts successfully maintained their right to prohibit suits in admiralty upon contracts made on shore, or within havens, or creeks, or tidal rivers, if the waters were within the body of any county, wheresoever such contracts were broken, for torts committed within the body of a county, whether on land or water, and for contracts made in parts beyond the seas.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

The prehistoric caves of Spain or the cliff dwellings of the Colorado could not be more interesting than a compilation of these records, including the drawings and sketches, some of which are real works of art.
— from The Emma Gees by Herbert W. McBride

The fact that the credit of the Republic is second to that of no other nation on the globe would seem to be at least an indication of a somewhat general diffusion of honesty.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

Motioning her to the furthest corner of the room, I there, as is my habit, when the friends of the patient seem capable of listening and comprehending, gave her my opinion about the course of treatment I intended to adopt, and my reasons for the same.
— from A Life for a Life, Volume 2 (of 3) by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

I wish, however, [157] that you would write out a class-room copy of the report in plain English so that I can have a defense handy in case any one asks questions of me.”
— from Won in the Ninth The first of a series of stories for boys on sports to be known as The Matty Books by Christy Mathewson

Missy hadn't had time before to view the completely embellished dining room and, now, in all its glory and grandeur, it struck her full force: the potted palms screening the windows through which floated strains of music, streamers of blue and gold stretching from the chandelier to the four corners of the room in a sort of canopy, the long white table with its flowers and gleaming silver— It might almost have been the scene of a function at Chetwoode Manor itself!
— from Missy by Dana Gatlin

Of coins currant before the comming of the Romans I haue elsewhere declared, that there were none at all in Britaine: but as the Ilanders of Scylira, the old Romans, Armenians, Scythians, Seritans, Sarmatians, Indians, and Essences did barter ware for ware, so the Britons vsed brasse or rings of iron, brought vnto a certeine proportion, in steed of monie, as the Lacedemonians & Bisantines also did, & the Achiui (as Homer writeth) who had (saith he) rough peeces of brasse and iron in stéed of coine, wherewith they purchased their wines.
— from Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine by William Harrison

It results from this that the course of the rivers is most erratic.
— from The Earth and its inhabitants, Volume 1: Europe. Greece, Turkey in Europe, Rumania, Servia, Montenegro, Italy, Spain, and Portugal. by Elisée Reclus