And when he declares, "I am glad for your sakes I was not there" (at the grave of Lazarus), he most distinctly disavows being omnipresent, and thus denies to himself another essential attribute of an infinite God. 29.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

Accordingly, we set out for the ball-room pretty early in the evening, and took possession of a commodious place, where we had not sat longer than a quarter of an hour, when a gentleman, dressed in a green frock, came in, leading a young lady, whom I immediately discovered to be the adorable Narcissa!
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Led captain; an humble dependant in a great family, who for a precarious subsistence, and distant hopes of preferment, suffers every kind of indignity, and is the butt of every species of joke or ill-humour.
— from 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

He was dressed in a greasy flannel gown, with his throat bare; and seemed to be dividing his attention between the frying-pan and the clothes-horse, over which a great number of silk handkerchiefs were hanging.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Mahomed, the Arab, who was, by the way, treated civilly indeed, but with chilling contempt, by the Amahagger, was, I discovered, in a great fright, though I could not quite make out what he was frightened about.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

But lately sprung from the mob it now preys upon, it yet shows some of the habits of mind of that mob: it is blatant, stupid, ignorant, lacking in all delicate instinct and governmental finesse.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This day the Commissioners of Parliament begin to pay off the Fleet, beginning with the Hampshire, and do it at Guildhall, for fear of going out of town into the power of the seamen, who are highly incensed against them.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

I hope you will assure us that you are all of you sound too, for the danger is as great from you to us as from us to you.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

In both, there is the capillary system, as I have said, between the vessel that brings and that which carries away; but the capillary system is certainly arranged very differently in a gland, from what it is in a serous surface; for example, wherever there is exhalation, there is certainly nothing but the capillary system; but where there is secretion, the secretory organ is too considerable not to admit of something more.
— from General Anatomy, Applied to Physiology and Medicine, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Xavier Bichat

My advice to you is to come to terms with M. Gobseck, who can plead that he bought the diamonds in all good faith; you would be bound in any case to return the purchase money.
— from Gobseck by Honoré de Balzac

Suffice it that we have established the nature of mathematical science and furnished the criterion according to which it can be discerned if a given formation be mathematics or natural science, if it be pure or applied mathematics (concept or judgment of enumeration, scheme of calculation, or calculation in the act).
— from Logic as the Science of the Pure Concept by Benedetto Croce

“Oh,” said Norman, one day, “I am glad father wouldn’t give up.”
— from The Dingo Boys: The Squatters of Wallaby Range by George Manville Fenn

'Captain Lind, then,' said Mr. Vanderholt, again lifting his hat, whilst his eyes disappeared in a grin full of wrinkles.
— from The Last Entry by William Clark Russell

"Mr. Diamond is a gentleman, father.
— from A Charming Fellow, Volume III by Frances Eleanor Trollope

On the walls, in polished oak frames, hung photographs of groups of officers that had commanded the cadets in years past, and one picture of the entire battalion of sixty boys drawn up in parade formation in the park; and over the door, in a gold frame, was a fine steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln that had been presented to the corps by Mr. Dunworthy, the president of the Board of Trustees of the Brick Church, and the chief patron of the cadets.
— from Harper's Round Table, April 21, 1896 by Various

Little Spry, our dog, is a great favorite of mine.
— from Harper's Young People, October 25, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Vegetable diet is as generous for a hot country as animal diet is for a cold country; and since we know that, notwithstanding the difference of food and climate, the temperature of the body varies little between the equator and the poles (compare Liebig's Animal Chemistry , p. 19; Holland's Medical Notes , p. 473; Pouillet , Elémens de Physique , vol.
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle