His manner was so fervent and inspiring, that Mr. Lorry caught the flame, and was as quick as youth.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

“I wouldn’t take Celis there for anything on earth!”
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

And in my cause they fought and died.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

The tide meeting of me and the emence Swells from the main Ocean (imedeately in front of us) raised to Such a hite that I concluded to form a Camp on the highest Spot I could find in the marshey bottom, and proceed no further by water as the Coaste becomes verry dangerous for Crafts of the Size of our Canoes-and as the Ocian is imedeately in front and gives us an extensive view of it from Cape disapointment to Point addams, my Situation is in the upper part of Haley Bay S. 86° W. ____
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

From ABRAM MAN , the ancient cant term for a begging impostor, or one who pretended to have been mad.—
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

M. Polo calls them fasters and ascetics.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And The Same God Is The Person Represented By Moses, And By Christ Our Saviour therefore, both in Teaching, and Reigning, representeth (as Moses Did) the Person of God; which God from that time forward, but not before, is called the Father; and being still one and the same substance, is one Person as represented by Moses, and another Person as represented by his Sonne the Christ.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

And then I thought of that other one—the face in the cab, the figure against the moon.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

Upon the fourth instant Rob Roey, with one hundred and fifty men, com to Falkland, and took possession of the place for a garrison, from which they came through the countrey side and robs and plunder, taking cloaths and victuals, and every thing that maks for them, nor to oposs them till this day eight days.
— from Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume II. by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

How long I dreamed I cannot tell, for again I was awakened, this time by the ugly dwarf shaking me by the shoulder.
— from The Eye of Istar: A Romance of the Land of No Return by William Le Queux

If you were to confront those figures, and to ask them, one by one, to give an account of the faith [pg 072] they had professed, and if they were endowed with the gift of speech, you would find that no two of them were in entire accord, but that they all differed among themselves on some fundamental principle of revelation.
— from The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons

With able and designing chiefs this great triumvirate gently drove the good people this way and that, and there was a little touch of irony in this journey of the latter to celebrate their freedom and independence.
— from Silas Strong, Emperor of the Woods by Irving Bacheller

Contact the Foundation as set forth in Section 3. below.
— from No Man's Island by Herbert Strang

So the time passed for the hungering and thirsting men within, weary and sleepless, but full of resolution, which they renewed with prayer, till called to fight again for dear life's sake.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 1. Under the French Régime, 1535-1760 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

So, jabbering, biting, clawing, they fell asleep this night—squeaking, scratching, and snarling forth their wicked feelings even in their dreams.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

They were common sort of fellows, might have been crooks themselves for all I know, and kicked up a deuce of a row.
— from This House to Let by William Le Queux