The thought was this: "He will do it, unless some strange calamity befalls him, and silences him for ever."
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

He himself took a chair opposite and drew it up so close that he almost pressed against the prince’s knees.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In keeping with a custom which I have long observed,—pure habits and honesty towards myself are among the first conditions of my existence, I would die in unclean surroundings,—I swim, bathe, and splash about, as it were, incessantly in water, in any kind of perfectly transparent and shining element.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And why do I use so many words, and why do I never speak well?
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"And do I understand," said I, "that I——" "Yes," he said, almost fiercely.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And when she saw that he had drunk it up, she shouted aloud for joy, and calling upon the name of her dead husband, said, 'Till this day, dearest husband, I have lived, deprived of you, a life of sorrow: but now take me to yourself with joy, for I have avenged you on the worst of men, as glad to share death with him as life with you.'
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

Mukínut (makínut) ang sitsarun ug dílì isulud ug sirádu, Pork rinds get tough and lose their crispness if you don’t keep them in a jar.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

SYN: Dirty, nasty, dingy, impure, unclean, squalid, foul.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

They apparently saw no necessity for explanation, which seems unlikely in view of the fact that Empedocles had already seen the necessity of solving the problem, and given a definite, if unsatisfactory, solution, in his theory of Love and Hate.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace

For this development in unstressed syllables, see § 45.
— from The Sounds of Spoken English: A Manual of Ear Training for English Students (4th edition) by Walter Ripman

“Likewise reckon ye, also, yourselves to be dead, indeed, unto sin, but alive unto God, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.”
— from The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark

Nor do I understand, sir, what objections you may have to me—I am of a very old and noble family."
— from The Monster Men by Edgar Rice Burroughs

But when he told a story he dressed it up so that you couldn’t see it for frills.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

A further description of these dangers is unnecessary, since their forms and relative positions, so far as they could be ascertained, will be best learned from the chart.
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

By a tacit understanding, she and Jim avoided all direct mention of her condition, he because he feared a recurrence of her hysterical revolt, she because she had fallen upon one of those [Pg 159] futile moods in which we feel that to speak of an approaching catastrophe is to hasten it; but twice a day, when she could do it unobserved, she sought, in silent terror, for the tokens that could not possibly so soon be seen.
— from Running Sands by Reginald Wright Kauffman

Each dish is usually served as a course in itself.
— from Practical Italian Recipes for American Kitchens Sold to aid the Families of Italian Soldiers by Julia Lovejoy Cuniberti

By seizing upon them as written specially for us, we make them our own, and they become in and by Jesus Christ yea and amen, that is to say, we realize them in our own experience to be the truth, and thus when we read “This is the will of God even your sanctification,” or, “The very God of peace sanctify you wholly,” or, “I will circumcise your heart,” or “I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes,” immediately the truth is impressed upon our hearts as a glorious reality, and we are enabled to reckon ourselves dead, indeed, unto sin, and alive unto God, and to realize that the Saviour’s prayer is answered and we are in His own blessed words, sanctified “by the truth.”
— from The Theology of Holiness by Dougan Clark