“He’s not going to die at once, I should think, is he?”
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Here, too, are twilight nooks and dells; And oft, in such, the story tells, The damsel kind, from danger freed, Did grateful pay her champion’s meed.”
— from Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field by Walter Scott

Every vestige of the old castle has now disappeared, and on its site there stand market buildings round three sides of a square.
— from Normandy by G. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton

Push it down about one inch, scrape the stem, and solder the drip pan to it.
— from The Library of Work and Play: Working in Metals by Charles Conrad Sleffel

"En by-en-by, when me en 'er wuz walkin' up de bank o' de creek, drippin' all over, I says to 'er, says I: "'Does you 'member what you said back yon'er in de watter, Phillis?' "'I ain' out'n no watter yit,' says she, ve'y contemptuous.
— from Flute and Violin, and Other Kentucky Tales and Romances by James Lane Allen

He mentions but one name, that of Calder, as bearer of despatches, and only incidentally says that he has been useful to him at all times.
— from The Life of Nelson, Volume 1 The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

It is indeed the darling achievement of infernal skill, to inflate a poor worm with pride of talent, and fill his heart with hatred to the Gospel, and then persuade him that his hatred arises from its falsehood and absurdity.
— from The National Preacher, Vol. 2 No. 7 Dec. 1827 Or Original Monthly Sermons from Living Ministers, Sermons XXVI. and XXVII. by Aaron W. (Aaron Whitney) Leland

It is by no means necessary, nor even possible, to solve directly all objections; it suffices to solve them indirectly, that is, by recognizing them as void; since faith is certain, whatever is contrary to it must be false.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

The silver shafts at Sala are the largest, the deepest and oldest in Sweden; they reach down a hundred and seventy fathoms, almost as deep as the Baltic.
— from Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

No matter how many of these dynamos are operated in series the electric strain on the insulation of the windings of each dynamo remains practically constant, because the iron frame of each dynamo is insulated in a most substantial manner from the ground.
— from Electric Transmission of Water Power by Alton D. Adams

This excuse for a drink arose, or is said to have arisen, from some epidemic which could be cured only by spirits, and the same is the tradition in the New World ("Highlands of the Brazil," i. chap.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

"Ide's grant is adjacent, on the north; it is also mostly divided and owned in small tracts of one hundred and sixty to four hundred acres each.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff