I don’t know what sphynx-like expression is forming in your countenance.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

The point which I have been most anxious to put in a clear light is simply this: Many people, especially in France, imagine that a change in opinion is going on in the United States, which is favorable to a centralization of power in the hands of the President and the Congress.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

how absolutely necessary Exercise is for its Preservation.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Euphorbiaceæ, is found in tropical and subtropical parts of the world.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

P EACOCK , I feel I cannot go to sleep until I have thanked you again for the wonderful joy your singing gave me this evening.
— from Bliss, and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield

Yet in the very pang of the effort I felt it vain to try sternness, and I heard myself the next instant so gentle as to be almost grotesque.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The entry immediately following it (on the top of the next page) was noticeable in another way from the large space it occupied, the record in this case registering the marriages of two brothers at the same time.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

“Will he think so when he hears that his greatest enemy is fed in the camp of his children?
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

And evermore it floweth in all Heavens enjoying the salvation of all mankind, that are there, and shall be—fulfilling the number [5] that faileth.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Dei emata in foro interiori descriptae.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

‘The judgment of every intelligent farmer in the State,’ he observed, ‘will respond to the assertion that to no man whatever, excepting perhaps Judge Buel , is the agriculture of the State more indebted than to Mr. Gaylord .
— from The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 by Various

Now it seemed to him that he must break the limitation which those encircling walls typified, that his restless thought might expand ere it formulated into definite concepts and plans for future work.
— from Carmen Ariza by Charles Francis Stocking

How important a collection of materials for the early history of the Drama, especially in France, is contained in this precious volume, we learn from a work which has reached us, " pas destiné au commerce ," under the title of Description Bibliographique et
— from Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851 by Various

Is it the emotion inseparable from—” “I dare say.”
— from The Ink-Stain (Tache d'encre) — Complete by René Bazin

A wild turnip called by them teep-see-na, and by the French pomme blanche, when boiled is eatable, is found in quantity everywhere on the plains, will sustain life alone for a great length of time either cooked or in its raw state, can be dried and preserved for years, or pulverized and made into passable bread.
— from Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edited with Notes and Biographical Sketch by Edwin Thompson Denig

To Mr. and Mrs. Copeland have been born five children: Henry, who is engaged in farming in Walla Walla county; Laura, the wife of Chester Offner, of Walla Walla; Elizabeth, the wife of Mathew Ennis, a farmer of this county; Ella, at home; and Edwin, who attended school at Pullman and later engaged in farming in Walla Walla county, but in December, 1917, he enlisted as machinist mate in the aviation service of the United States navy and went to San Diego, California.
— from Lyman's History of old Walla Walla County, Vol. 2 Embracing Walla Walla, Columbia, Garfield and Asotin counties by William Denison Lyman

A line of conduct which is dangerous and wrong, cannot be but unsuccessful, even if followed in pursuit of some object.
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura

The German original contains no illustrations, but our edition is fully illustrated with pictures that aid materially in an understanding of the text.
— from Socialism: Positive and Negative by Robert Rives La Monte

If you go on so, his Eminence will be forced to renew his company in three weeks, and I to put the edicts in force in all their rigor.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas