There are some passages of his description, nevertheless, which may be quoted for their details, although their effect is exceedingly feeble in conveying an impression of the spectacle.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

It was but natural that I should take to him much more kindly than to Drummle, and that, even in the earliest evenings of our boating, he and I should pull homeward abreast of one another, conversing from boat to boat, while Bentley Drummle came up in our wake alone, under the overhanging banks and among the rushes.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

"A few days after this episode I received a telegraphic message necessitating my immediate return to Germany.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

With similar sagacity he had, during his early days in the department, declined altogether to enter into relations with the association, for the reason that he had then been a mere cipher, and would have come in for nothing large in the way of takings; but now—well, now it was another matter altogether, and he could dictate what terms he liked.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

For a man to be undisturbed in danger, sedately to consider what is fittest to be done, and to execute it steadily, is a mixed mode, or a complex idea of an action which may exist.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

I can dance all the easier, I assure you”...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

From that hour I never gathered a single egg; the hens deposited all their eggs in Mrs. O——'s hen-house.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

Although the ground was difficult and rocky, looking towards the open sea, the fact that this was the weakest part of the wall would, he thought, encourage their ardour, as the Athenians, confident in their naval superiority, had here paid little attention to their defences, and the enemy if he could force a landing might feel secure of taking the place.
— from The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides

In religions, mythologies, and the Fairy-Faith, too, we behold the attempts which have been made by different peoples in different ages to explain in terms of human experience this unseen world, its inhabitants, its laws, and man’s relation to it.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

For Blunt is disappointed, and the Emperor is understood to go on to the utmost.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Apoplexies are likewise frequent enough: I saw a man carried out stone dead from St. Pancrazio's church one morning about noon-day; but nobody seemed disturbed at the event I think, except myself.
— from Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Hester Lynch Piozzi

That was the beginning of electric lighting; and perhaps it will be well to bridge the long and comparatively uninteresting interval which elapsed between this discovery and the equally important one which alone gave it commercial value—I refer to the production of suitable currents by mechanical means.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 by Various

M. Massenet's orchestra is an active agent in the development of the drama, and the episodes in which it becomes dominant are not pauses in the action created because of a felt need for something besides an undercurrent for the inane chatter of dialogue; instead they carry on the psychological action, the concealed drama which is playing on the stage of the hearts of the people concerned in the story.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

This I declined, and the earl, I understand, was satisfied with my excuses.
— from History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. by James Anthony Froude

"And now that that reason no longer exists," said the District Attorney, "the engagement, I suppose, is likely to be renewed?"
— from The Ordeal of Elizabeth by Anonymous

During all these experiments I clearly perceived the work was printing in France as well as in Holland, and that two editions of it were preparing at the same time.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Volume 11 by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The females of the Psychidae also deposit all their eggs in one place.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

All this proves the people to be superior in dignity; and therefore, even in that respect, it is frivolous to say, the king cannot be accountable to them, because so much superior in glory and pomp; for they are superior every way in excellency; and though it were not so, yet judges may be inferior in rank considered as men, but they are superior in law over the greatest as they are judges, to whom far greater than they are accountable.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields