Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her stenography, I must, in my cumbrous old fashion, that so each day of us may not go unrecorded.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

They was all dug out under my eyes.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The fact that he had spent the very year in which I had sunk into the lowest depths of undergraduate madness, studying at Heidelberg and not at Leipzig, had kept him unsullied by any share in my strange excesses, and when we now met again at Leipzig, in the spring of 1834, the only thing that we still had in common was the aesthetic aspiration of our lives, which we now strove by way of experiment to divert into the direction of the enjoyment of life.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Because I am a harvest-labourer, because I am a toiler and a moiler, because you are delivered over unto me and are become as a precious instrument in my hands.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

For my panacea, instead of one of those quack vials of a mixture dipped from Acheron and the Dead Sea, which come out of those long shallow black-schooner looking wagons which we sometimes see made to carry bottles, let me have a draught of undiluted morning air.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Johnson is very much obliged by the kind offer of the carriage, but he has no desire of using Mr. Metcalfe's carriage, except when he can have the pleasure of Mr. Metcalfe's company.'
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Half a dozen of us mounted the ungainly affairs and submitted to the indignity of making a ridiculous spectacle of ourselves through the principal streets of a town of 10,000 inhabitants.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

he replied, with a despondent shake of the head; ‘and, at the same time, there was a strong display of unchastened, misdirected passions.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

To be sure, the difficulty of understanding may be the fault of the author.
— from Thinking as a Science by Henry Hazlitt

And this method of operating belongs to primary action; for it is the same thing to produce one or many simple natures, except that man is more confined and restricted in his operations, if many be required, on account of the difficulty of uniting many natures together.
— from Novum Organum; Or, True Suggestions for the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

But he did not always recite, and he would not have dreamed of using manuscript.
— from Extempore Speech: How to Acquire and Practice It by William Pittenger

my heart, and I have daily offered up my prayers that God would bless you for it through time and eternity.
— from Tales from the German. Volume II. by C. F. van der (Carl Franz) Velde

But men will use them as working motives here below, with the result that they wreck women's hearts and cause themselves a great deal of useless misery.
— from The Summons by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason

In it all there will be no bitterness, no condemnation, no casting off, but the highest charity, sympathy and love; and it is only by this method that I can manifest the highest, only by this method that I can the most truly aid, for only as I am lifted up can I draw others unto me.
— from What All The World's A-Seeking The Vital Law of True Life, True Greatness Power and Happiness by Ralph Waldo Trine

Discipline of Unruly Monks
— from Life on a Mediaeval Barony A Picture of a Typical Feudal Community in the Thirteenth Century by William Stearns Davis

We know that it is not a disproportionate or unworthy moral, but one befitting the grandeur of his theme, when the Apostle concludes the fifteenth chapter of 1st Corinthians in a tone very similar to that which rules here.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians by James Denney