The doctrine of transmigration is still held by him, as in the Phaedrus and Republic; and the soul has a view of the heavens in a prior state of being.
— from Timaeus by Plato

By dint of this ingenious scheme, his gloves were got on to perfection.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Nance glanced triumphantly at Henchard, and sailed into the barn; for assuming that she was to be discharged on the instant she had resolved to make the most of her victory.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

Thunder-showers had been tolerably frequent of late, and I was not much afraid of a failure; still, I shouldn’t have cared for a delay of a day or two; I should have explained that I was busy with affairs of state yet, and the people must wait.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

There is little doubt of these inhuman sacrifices having been once offered in this country, as well as in the east, although they now pass from the act of sacrificing, and only compel the devoted person to leap three times through the flames; with which the ceremonies of this festival are closed.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

By going home with Mr. Jarndyce for a day or two, I shall hear the larks sing and preserve my amiability.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

So after a day or two in Sinaketa, highly displeased, and vowing never to return again, he went back to Omarakana, his residence, and thither we shall follow him.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Let him drive on till I stop him.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Years after, the dear old thing is still hanging on his studio wall.
— from The Fortunes of Oliver Horn by Francis Hopkinson Smith

It will be seen that nothing but his intense grasp of the doctrine of the Incarnation saved him from drifting into the wildest vagaries of mysticism.
— from The Vicar of Morwenstow: Being a Life of Robert Stephen Hawker, M.A. by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of the inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not; whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort; may still linger in the forecourt till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities."
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

In the various departments of technical instruction, she has a national reputation.
— from The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 by Various

When Dorothy reached the dressing-room every girl was speculating on the depth of the impression she had made upon Mr. Richards, but not one of them could claim that the great man had patted her on the back or noticed her flowers.
— from The Vanity Girl by Compton MacKenzie

But here were eight burly men grouped around them, each standing in a position so that he could make himself extremely dangerous on the instant should he choose to do so.
— from A Woman at Bay; Or, A Fiend in Skirts by Nicholas (House name) Carter

"If he had only stayed away another day or two, I should have got my key to fit and open the lock.
— from A Secret of the Sea: A Novel. Vol. 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

I suggested that that decision was hard for me, for I had spent a great deal of time in soldiers' hospitals myself.
— from A Story of the Red Cross; Glimpses of Field Work by Clara Barton