When he appeared with his stocking disordered (its disorder expressed, according to usage, by one very neat fold in the top, which I suppose to be always got up with a flat iron), a conversation took place in the gallery respecting the paleness of his leg, and whether it was occasioned by the turn the ghost had given him.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

We hear little more concerning the relations of the two tribes until the Creek war of 1813–14, described in detail elsewhere; after this their histories drift apart.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc illuc impellitur —While the mind is in suspense, a very little sways it one way or other.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

ANT: Repel, deter, indispose, disincline, estrange, alienate.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“Dum in dubio est animus, paulo momento huc atque Illuc impellitur.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

God will never get far with His great cosmic enterprise if He employs only ignorant little children; and that is clearly what He is doing if death ends all.
— from What and Where is God? A Human Answer to the Deep Religious Cry of the Modern Soul by Richard La Rue Swain

They were crowded with duels, intrigues, disguises, escapades, assassinations, masked balls, lost heirs, and all the stock properties of the romancer’s
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

In that day, as every one knows, the different classes of society—and, kingdom or republic, classes do and ever will exist in this country, as an incident of civilization; a truth every one can see as respects those below , though his vision may be less perfect as respects those above him—but every one knows that great distinctions in dress existed, as between classes, all over the Christian world, at the close of the American war, that are fast disappearing, or have altogether disappeared.
— from The Chainbearer; Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts by James Fenimore Cooper

But as the living form develops organs and members, through the agency of the vital force, whatever that may be, so consciousness develops into desires, emotion and thought.
— from The Speech of Monkeys by R. L. (Richard Lynch) Garner

The flat highways down in the Arno Valley, west of Bellosguardo, are deep in dust even as early as April; the villages, consisting for the most part of a shallow line of houses on each side of the road, almost join hands, so that it is not the dust alone that afflicts the pedestrian, but children, dogs, the rinds of fruit and vegetables—all the far-reaching untidiness of a Southern race that lives in the street.
— from Dorothy, and Other Italian Stories by Constance Fenimore Woolson

It didn't hurt us a bit, but while I was struggling with stubborn corsets and shoes I communed with myself, after the manner of prodigals, and said: "How much better that I were down in Denver, even at Mrs. Coney's, digging with a skewer into the corners seeking dirt which might be there, yea, even eating codfish, than that I should perish on this desert—of imagination."
— from Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Pruitt Stewart

[214] The philosophy of D’Alembert’s Dream is definite enough, and far enough removed alike from deism and scepticism.
— from Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol. 2 of 2) by John Morley

Then there were long waits for the doctor in dire emergencies, and per-mile fees (if the doctor were non-Church-of-England, or you could successfully save yourself from taking charity) for his tardy attendance.
— from Thirty Years in Australia by Ada Cambridge

Depending on whom you listen to, DeCSS is described either as a way of allowing people who use Linux or other open source operating systems to play DVDs on their computers, or as a tool for piracy that threatened the entire movie industry and violated the DMCA.
— from The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by James Boyle