He learned to play heavily at cards and to squander money on the turf, until he had again and again to come to me and implore me to give him an advance upon his allowance, that he might settle his debts of honour.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

The majestic quietude of the long lines of The Book of Pictures is broken, the colours are more vibrant, more scintillating and the pictures are painted in nervous, darting strokes as though to convey the manner in which they were perceived: in one single, all-absorbing glance.
— from Poems by Rainer Maria Rilke

Holt writes: “In fully four-fifths of the cases which have come to my own notice this (rheumatism) has been the previous diagnosis.”
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

A King may also if he please, sit in Judgment, to hear and determine all manner of Causes, as well as give others authority to doe it in his name; but that the charge that lyeth upon him of Command and Government, constrain him to bee continually at the Helm, and to commit the Ministeriall Offices to others under him.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

A comparison of photographs has proved conclusively that M. Henri Fournaye and Eduardo Lucas were really one and the same person, and that the deceased had for some reason lived a double life in London and Paris.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Note 504 ( return ) [ The Aemiliana, so called because it contained the monuments of the family of that name, was a suburb of Rome, on the Via Lata, outside the gate.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

We have certainly been favored with extraordinary luck during this inquiry, and it will be entirely our own fault if we do not succeed in clearing the matter up.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

They no longer have the charm, the mellowness and the snap —yes, the snap—of a real kiss.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

All the way from mine Germany I have come to mend, to cook, to wash, to sew, to scrub, to sweep, to take after him the many things which he forgets and leaves behind, even the most essential.
— from The Master's Violin by Myrtle Reed

If the reader will consult the map of Georgia he will understand this, too.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

So Augustine dwelt in Kent, and taught the Kentishmen the truths of Christianity till many of them accepted the gospel and were baptized.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

Oh! it is terrible to think that from the Fall till now man has gone on continually producing and reproducing scenes like this—sometimes, no doubt, unavoidably; but often, too often, because of some trifling error, or insult, on the part of statesmen, or some paltry dispute about a boundary, or, not infrequently, on grounds so shadowy and complex that succeeding historians have found it almost impossible to convey the meaning thereof to the intellects of average men!
— from Blue Lights: Hot Work in the Soudan by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

and what do you want?” demanded Merriwell, boldly confronting the man and the creature at his heels.
— from Frank Merriwell's Alarm; Or, Doing His Best by Burt L. Standish

And so, I may conclude, the “Music of the Spheres” comprises all that is highest and purest and truest within our comprehension.
— from An Ocean Tramp by William McFee

Sometimes as I've sat in my shack at night and read, it's come to me that all the greatest works since the world began have been those that never got finished."
— from Seven Keys to Baldpate by Earl Derr Biggers

A host, consecrated at the mass, is carried with great solemnity to a temporary structure called the Monument , erected in every church with more or less splendour, according to the wealth of the establishment.
— from Letters from Spain by Joseph Blanco White

A smart limousine drew up alongside him and Chester Bartlett, “classiest” of musical comedy entrepreneurs alighted, bringing with him something of the flair of a Parisian boulevard as contrasted with the Broadway manner which usually characterized theatrical men in his particular field of endeavor.
— from Fresh Every Hour Detailing the Adventures, Comic and Pathetic of One Jimmy Martin, Purveyor of Publicity, a Young Gentleman Possessing Sublime Nerve, Whimsical Imagination, Colossal Impudence, and, Withal, the Heart of a Child. by John Peter Toohey

In the immediate foreground, standing by itself, as if detached from the low range behind, there is a small conical hill, about 400 feet high, covered with pines and brushwood, and bearing a name (Cronius) which calls to mind the primeval deity who was dethroned by his son Zeus, the presiding god of Olympia.
— from Greece Painted by John Fulleylove; described by J.A. McClymont by J. A. (James Alexander) M'Clymont