[Pg 270] this god be worshipped only on account of saliva, which has two open doorways under the heavens of the palate,—one through which part of it may be spitten out, the other through which part of it may be swallowed down.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

She had in good sooth long sighed in secret, under the powerful influence of his charms, and practised upon him all those little arts, by which a woman strives to attract the admiration, and ensnare the heart of a man she loves; but all his faculties were employed upon the plan which he had already projected; that was the goal of his whole attention, to which all his measures tended; and whether or not he perceived the impression he had made upon Teresa, he never gave her the least reason to believe he was conscious of his victory, until he found himself baffled in his design upon the heart of her mistress.—She therefore persevered in her distant attempts to allure him, with the usual coquetries of dress and address, and, in the sweet hope of profiting by his susceptibility, made shift to suppress her feelings, and keep her passion within bounds, until his supposed danger alarmed her fears, and raised such a tumult within her breast, that she could no longer conceal her love, but gave a loose to her sorrow in the most immoderate expressions of anguish and affliction, and, while his delirium lasted, behaved with all the agitation of a despairing shepherdess.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I distinctly understood that he was working himself up with its contents to make an end of me.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Amy arranged her bower, put on her best white frock, smoothed her curls, and sat down to draw, under the honeysuckles, hoping some one would see and inquire who the young artist was.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

The Lion became quite angry at the laughter caused by the Scarecrow's mishap, and giving a loud roar that echoed like thunder, he dashed up the hill.
— from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

"Ah! a moment," said Jan. "Let's see how she was driven up this hill.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

It fortifies the members, it cleans the skin, and dries up the humidities that are under it, and gives an excellent smell to all the body.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Dean usually took his noontide meal in absolute silence when they were alone together, as he held that desultory conversation disturbed his train of thought.
— from Kit of Greenacre Farm by Izola L. (Izola Louise) Forrester

Laurence Oliphant, in his preface to Scientific Religion , says: “ A new moral future is dawning upon the human race—one, certainly, of which it stands much in need. ”
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Having finished our dinner we adjourned to the office and found the officer, who said his chief had received a telegram from a man in some town a hundred miles inland requesting him to send “his friend the Doctor” up to him as soon as possible.
— from Reminiscences of Travel in Australia, America, and Egypt by Tangye, Richard, Sir

He dextrously unharnessed the horses, and, seizing the pole himself, assisted by two savage-looking fellows--the very ones who, a couple of days before, would have been willing to kill the "murderer" and the "German dog"--on they went to the "Golden Vine."
— from The Lonely House by Adolf Streckfuss

I was standing on the outside fringe of the brilliant circle of His Majesty’s suite, quietly chatting to Dr. von Leuthold, the Emperor’s body physician, when suddenly we saw an orderly officer dash up to his Majesty and deliver a message, which we could discern from the colour of the envelope to be a telegram.
— from The Great War of 189-: A Forecast by Frank Scudamore

For myself, I can say that not only South African history, but also the prospects of South African industry and trade, were dark matters to me till I had got, by travelling through the country, an idea of those natural features of the southern part of the continent which have so largely governed the course of events and have stamped themselves so deeply upon the habits of the people.
— from Impressions of South Africa by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

The train started, left the station twilight, plunged into the tunnel of gloom and made the dip under the Hudson River.
— from The Cup of Fury: A Novel of Cities and Shipyards by Rupert Hughes

So it has stood within man's memory; but now, as though tired of this arrangement, wind and sea are modifying the place again, for the one has found a new path in the midst, and the other has blown at the sand dunes until their heads are reduced by many feet from their old altitude.
— from A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpotts

When the savage northern winter closed down upon the high valley of the Quahdavic it found difficulty in freezing the swift current that ran rippling over the bar; and when, at last, the frost conquered, gripping and clutching through the long, windless nights, it was to form only a thin armour of transparent, steel-strong
— from The Haunters of the Silences: A Book of Animal Life by Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir

“‘Judith,’ he said, ’our neighbor, Mr. Peixada, has done us the honor of proposing for your hand.
— from Mrs Peixada by Henry Harland