But the captain stopped me, signaled no, removed his dagger in one swift motion, and let the two valves snap shut.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

The jealous man's disease is of so malignant a nature, that it converts all it takes into its own nourishment.
— 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.

The Jealous Man's Disease is of so malignant a Nature, that it converts all he takes into its own Nourishment.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

The time of the two parties uniting in the Octagon Room being correctly adjusted, Catherine was then left to the luxury of a raised, restless, and frightened imagination over the pages of Udolpho, lost from all worldly concerns of dressing and dinner, incapable of soothing Mrs. Allen's fears on the delay of an expected dressmaker, and having only one minute in sixty to bestow even on the reflection of her own felicity, in being already engaged for the evening.
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

I have known many dogs, and many a story I could tell of their wisdom and devotion; but to none do I owe so much as to Stickeen.
— from Stickeen by John Muir

Under the disenchanting influence of steam, manufactures, and projected rail-roads, still much of the old character of its population remains.
— from Discovery of Witches The Wonderfull Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Lancaster by Potts, Thomas, active 1612-1618

On the sward in the garden were dancing its owner, Sir Mirth, and a company of friends; and by the side of Gladness the dreamer saw the God of Love and his attendant, a bachelor named Sweet-looking, who bore two bows, each with five arrows.
— from Chaucer by Ward, Adolphus William, Sir

If the present state of the fact could have been anticipated—if at Harrisburg, or at the polls, it had been foreseen that General Harrison would die in one short month after the commencement of his administration; that Vice-President Tyler would be elevated to the presidential chair; that a bill, passed by decisive majorities of the first whig Congress, chartering a national bank, would be presented for his sanction; and that he would veto the bill, do I hazard any thing when I express the conviction that he would not have received a solitary vote in the nominating convention, nor one solitary electoral vote in any State in the Union?"
— from Thirty Years' View (Vol. 2 of 2) or, A History of the Working of the American Government for Thirty Years, from 1820 to 1850 by Thomas Hart Benton

This in turn determines its own specific materials and tools.
— from Studies in Logical Theory by John Dewey

when I saw there were five of you, I didn't want to divide it out so much, and I want still less now.
— from Under Fire: The Story of a Squad by Henri Barbusse