As soon as you disbelieve in me completely, you'll begin assuring me to my face that I am not a dream but a reality.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What, then, must we expect when we come to the upheaved regions—to the districts broken and roughened from volcanic eruptions and subterraneous commotions?
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

At Onstmettingen the man who gives the last stroke at threshing “has the Sow”; he is often bound up in a sheaf and dragged by a rope along the ground.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

We now again begged of him, in the name of God, and the emperor our master, to forward us his papers within the space of three days by a royal secretary, that he might read them to us; as we were ready, and also promised to act up strictly to his majesty's commands, if his documents were correct.
— from The Memoirs of the Conquistador Bernal Diaz del Castillo, Vol 1 (of 2) Written by Himself Containing a True and Full Account of the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico and New Spain. by Bernal Díaz del Castillo

Then they offer the dead beast a repast of rice and wild potatoes, and having spoken to him in terms of pity and thanked him for what he has done and suffered, they cut off his head and paws and keep them as sacred things.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The essence of recognition is in the DIFFERENCE between a repeated stimulus and a new one.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The very deep notes of the double bassoon are remarkably thick and dense in quality, very powerful in piano passages.
— from Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

This being the state of the case, the road to longevity was plain; nothing more being required, says his lordship, but to repair the waste committed by the internal spirit, by making the substance of it more thick and dense, by a regular course of opiates on one side, and by refrigerating the heat of it on the other, by three grains and a half of salt-petre every morning before you got up.—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

By three o'clock the danger was felt to be over, and day broke and revealed the forlorn Susan Jane still riding at anchor.
— from Sea Urchins by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

He was in evening dress, but a red sash round his waist gave a touch of picturesqueness and a dash of colour.
— from An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay by Grant Allen

The difference between a ride with Randy and one with George Dalton was, Page 114
— from The Trumpeter Swan by Temple Bailey

The peregrine falcon builds her nest on a tiny ledge of this cliff, on which the young falcons are reared, unless the wary keeper shoots or traps the old birds; or else, let down by a rope fastened round his armpits, robs the nest of eggs or young, as I have witnessed.
— from Gairloch in North-West Ross-Shire Its Records, Traditions, Inhabitants, and Natural History, with a Guide to Gairloch and Loch Maree, and a Map and Illustrations by John H. (John Henry) Dixon

Then, realizing that he could do nothing against such nimble foes, [Pg 159] he drew back and ran under the fence.
— from The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

With such a government the Duma breaks all relations forever."
— from Bolshevism: The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy by John Spargo

The big dog barked and ran on ahead.
— from Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue Playing Circus by Laura Lee Hope

The bridegroom remembered driving there in a tandem cart, drawn by a refractory pair, which he had reduced to subjection, doing the twelve miles out, at a creditable pace, though not quite in time for dinner.
— from The Ghost Camp; or, the Avengers by Rolf Boldrewood

She had never struck her daughter before, and resolved never to do so again; but it did not occur to her to tell Nancy so.
— from The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 by Various

When it was over and they were walking back, he drew a deep breath and remarked: "That's the first time I've been in church, except for our wedding, for twenty years."
— from The Hundredth Chance by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell