[164] standing up, and confronting the emaciated and white-cheeked minister, with his low, dark, and misshapen figure,—“a sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit, hath immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So gently, Oh, so gently and soothingly her fingers touch me that at last they feel like rose leaves dragged across my face.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

I have all the dates at my fingers' ends.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

I do not wish to imply that such religious institutions can pass from people to people with the ease of material objects, but to point out that there is evidence that they can and do so pass with very little, if any, admixture of peoples or of the deeper and more fundamental elements of the culture.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

And other kinds of tumbling do, And magic feats perform of every sort; And for six blancos?
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Certainly not Furley, for Mr. Tulliver had determined that Furley should meet his plans with the utmost alacrity; and there are men whoses brains have not yet been dangerously heated by the loss of a lawsuit, who are apt to see in their own interest or desires a motive for other men's actions.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Of the many others that in one way or another have seconded my efforts in giving as valuable a biography of my renowned fellow-countryman as possible, I owe special thanks—not to mention the Hielmstierne-Rosencrone Institution—to Mr. Hegel, the veteran publisher, Col. Hoskier, Dr. Karl Verner, instructor in Sclavonic languages at the University of Copenhagen, who has examined some very difficult archival matter for me, Professor Alexander Vasilievich Grigorieff, Secretary of the Imperial Russian Geographical Society, and to Mr. E. W. Dahlgren, Secretary of the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

So by coach home, it being the fast day and to my chamber and so after supper to bed, consulting how to send my wife into the country to advise about Pall’s marriage, which I much desire, and my father too, and two or three offers are now in hand.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

He reported that the animals developed a marked fragility of the bones, varying in intensity in proportion to the degree of heat to which the milk had been subjected.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Harry was beside himself with rage while the Senator remained in town; he declared that women were always ready to drop any man for higher game; and he attributed his own ill-luck to the Senator’s appearance.
— from The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today by Charles Dudley Warner

Anyhow, you gave me a useful hint, which perhaps warrants my doing as much for you."
— from Carmen's Messenger by Harold Bindloss

The poet and the periodical writer, Christopher North at the Noctes and in his shooting-jacket, and John Wilson, the free, open-hearted, yet eccentric man, could, combined, furnish forth, with glimpses of his cotemporaries and social doings, a most fascinating work.
— from Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets, Vol. 2 (of 2) by William Howitt

His memory has been honored for centuries, and in the peculiar manner of much drinking and many free fights here on the spot where he died, a custom stopped by the parish priest who emptied the whiskey into the stream and burned the shillalahs, after which he forced these people who had been enemies for centuries to embrace over Kevin's grave.
— from Wanderings in Ireland by Michael Myers Shoemaker

All the rules of prudence, or gifts of experience that life can accumulate, will never do as much for human comfort and welfare as would be done by a stricter attention, and a wiser science, directed to the digestive system; in this attention lies the key to any perfect restoration for the victim of intemperance: and, considering the peculiar hostility to the digestive health which exists in the dietetic habits of our own country, it may be feared that nowhere upon earth has the reclaimed martyr to intemperance so difficult a combat to sustain; nowhere, therefore, is it so important to direct the attention upon an artificial culture of those resources which naturally, and by the established habits of the land, are surest to be neglected.
— from Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers — Volume 2 by Thomas De Quincey

I sho' does ask yo' pardon fer lettin' mysef git so flustrated, but we-all's so powerful pleased fer ter see yo', an' has been a-wanting yo' so pintedly, that—that—that—but, ma Lawd, I—I—I'se cla'r los' ma senses an', an—Hi! look yonder at dat cusséd dawg an' ma fried chicken!"
— from Peggy Stewart at School by Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie) Jackson

er fell directly at my feet.
— from The Big Fight (Gallipoli to the Somme) by David Fallon

“That is easily done,” answered Merlin; “follow me, and I will bring you where ye shall get you a sword, the wonder of the world.”
— from Junior High School Literature, Book 1 by William H. (William Harris) Elson

On the 2nd of May, twelve days after moving from Saxony, Frederick arrived within sight of Prague.
— from With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Most Albanian families charged refugee families an average of 500 DM a month for their accommodation in subhuman conditions.
— from After the Rain : how the West lost the East by Samuel Vaknin

D actyllic measure, Frug's, 108 ; Winchevsky's, 124 .
— from The History of Yiddish Literature in the Nineteenth Century by Leo Wiener