It’s only that you havn’t discovered yet what a wonderful world art can open up to you.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion, for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression, or when some thought that terrifies us lays sudden siege to the brain and calls on us to yield.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Why, your master makes exactly twenty-four pounds off of every ham; and if he buys them at the best hand, and salts and cures them himself, they don't stand him in ten shillings a-piece!"' In 1841 there seemed every prospect that the gardens would be closed; they were not closed, however, but were reopened and continued open until the year 1859, where they were finally closed and the farewell night was celebrated.
— from South London by Walter Besant

It appears that in this originally selected locality his work was carried on until the year 1637, when his entire plant was moved into more commodious quarters in the Blumengracht, one year only before his death.
— from Terrestrial and Celestial Globes Volume 2 Their History and Construction Including a Consideration of their Value as Aids in the Study of Geography and Astronomy by Edward Luther Stevenson

"Come out uh that, you damned Dutch belly-robber!"
— from The Happy Family by B. M. Bower

She towered over them and cried out upon them: “You wicked, wicked little beasts, how dare you put such loathsome words into a prayer!
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

She laughed; then, with the flushed composure of uneasiness: "Thank you for a lesson in angling.
— from The Adventures of a Modest Man by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Should he, the valet, hang on at Walls End Castle for an indefinite period, until Lucy Warrender's son should come into the old lord's property, when he would be able to recommence the blackmailing process which he had so successfully carried out upon the young man's mother?
— from The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 3 (of 3) by C. J. (Charles James) Wills

When this comes on under thirty years of age, the eyes have almost certainly been overworked, and need rest.
— from Papers on Health by John Kirk

But Dr. Brinkley’s earliest cases, operated upon three years ago, up to the present time have shown no diminution whatever in the good effects secured.
— from The Goat-gland Transplantation As Originated and Successfully Performed by J. R. Brinkley, M. D., of Milford, Kansas, U. S. A., in Over 600 Operations Upon Men and Women by Sydney Blanshard Flower

We earnestly hope that all cause of uneasiness to you on her account has ceased, and that both fever and cold are gone.
— from Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third From the Original Family Documents, Volume 2 by Buckingham and Chandos, Richard Plantagenet Temple Nugent Brydges Chandos Grenville, Duke of