Texts: Works, Cambridge Poets Edition (containing Henley's Study of Burns), Globe and Aldine editions, Clarendon Press, Canterbury Poets, etc.; Selections, in Athenaeum Press, etc.; Letters, in Camelot Series.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the evenings long, I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallon at about this period of my existence.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

By the flickering light of the expiring lamp I could see that the latch of my door was twitching, as though a gentle pressure was exerted on it from without.
— from The Man from Archangel, and Other Tales of Adventure by Arthur Conan Doyle

" She carefully found the place in the book, and, with a finger following each line in case she should miss any of it, proceeded to read in that ecstatic and unreal style of voice inevitable to young people when uttering other thoughts than their own. "'… Reaching the top of the hill, the most beautiful little girl in the world, whose eyes were brighter than stars, and whose lips were redder than the heart of a rose' (like me, Louis—yes?)
— from The Blower of Bubbles by Beverley Baxter

His Excellency General Vorontzoff, as representative of the Emperor, lived in considerable state with a large military staff, and Cossack sentries posted at all the doors.
— from The Price of Power Being Chapters from the Secret History of the Imperial Court of Russia by William Le Queux

This body of enacted law is called statute law and is much more variable than common law.
— from The Young Farmer: Some Things He Should Know by Thomas Forsyth Hunt

The material chosen from each life is carefully selected, too, to suit the minds and tastes of children.
— from The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 by Various

A saint is nearly always a disturbance to his immediate surroundings, he is frequently an annoyance and an irritation to the little circle in which his external life is cast, simply because he really lives and moves in a sphere which the ordinary life cannot grasp.
— from The Shepherd Of My Soul by Charles J. (Charles Jerome) Callan

He was accustomed to excited language in certain situations.
— from Checkmate by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

"Really, that is an excellent chain of circumstantial evidence and every link is complete," said the baron.
— from Arsène Lupin versus Herlock Sholmes by Maurice Leblanc

In levelling his reproaches, the satirist was not probably very solicitous about genealogical accuracy; as, in the eighth line, I conceive Sir John Dryden to be alluded to, although he is termed our poet's grandfather, when he was in fact his uncle.
— from The Dramatic Works of John Dryden, Volume 1 With a Life of the Author by Walter Scott