Perhaps he was rather exceptional in this, as you may frequently find that the philosopher who calls life an empty delusion is pretty sharp in the investment of his moneys, and recognizes the tangible nature of India bonds, Spanish certificates, and Egyptian scrip—as contrasted with the painful uncertainty of an Ego or a non-Ego in metaphysics.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

The dreamy and romantic Castle (1748), occupied by enchanter Indolence and his willing captives in the land of Drowsyhed, is purely Spenserian in its imagery, and is written in the Spenserian stanza.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

If that infernal Heat has his way the fellow’ll die in prison smothered in his fat, and she’ll never forgive me.”
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

"What does it prove?" "Shall I tell you?"
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

A young tree, which over-tops and destroys its parent, stands in all the same relations with Nero, when he murdered Agrippina; and if morality consisted merely in relations, would no doubt be equally criminal.
— from An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals by David Hume

The whole people was distributed into political societies, in which they acted in support of such interests in the state as they severally affected.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The people that had seen the thing said he done it perfect; said it was just exactly the way it all happened.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Principes plerumque ob licentiam et adfluentiam divitiarum istam passionem solent incurrere.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Consequently, the separation of species from each other is regarded as the outcome not only of a sheer physical impossibility of contact, but even more of other factors as differences in physical structure, in habits of life, and in the instincts
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

If the atmospheric pressure increases, the thin disk is pushed slightly inward; if, on the other hand, the atmospheric pressure decreases, the pressure on the metallic disk decreases and the disk is not pressed so far inward.
— from General Science by Bertha May Clark

On his death is passed somehow into Mrs. Mullarkey's fair hands, and in a fatal moment she determined to open it occasionally to 'paying guests,' who might wish a quiet home far from the madding crowd of the summer tourist.
— from Penelope's Irish Experiences by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

[22] life consisted wholly in faith and charity, that faith would display its power spontaneously in good works, and that thus everything would arrange itself; a new and better Church would spring up within the old one, though minus a hierarchy, minus all false doctrine and holiness-by-works.
— from Luther, vol. 3 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

He does not speak disrespectfully of the law of tithes, nor of their observance of it; but he assigns to each class of duties its proper station in the scale of moral importance.
— from Evidences of Christianity by William Paley

The secret of this may be, no doubt, in part sought in his early familiarity with a great many foreign languages, some of whose idioms he transplanted into English: but this is by no means the whole of the receipt.
— from Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by George Saintsbury

Any time will do; I presume she is in no hurry,” and Caroline coloured up, when her eyes met mine.
— from Valerie by Frederick Marryat

Fie on these dealers in poison, say I: can they not keep to the old honest way of cutting throats, without introducing such abominable innovations from Italy?
— from Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas De Quincey

The prince, who is twenty or twenty-two years old, is of a sickly ugliness, with divergent eyes; he is perfumed to excess, and dressed in pale silk in tones of mauve or lilac.
— from The Last Days of Pekin by Pierre Loti