Occasionally, indeed, Mrs. Glegg wore one of her third-best fronts on a week-day visit, but not at a sister's house; especially not at Mrs. Tulliver's, who, since her marriage, had hurt her sister's feelings greatly by wearing her own hair, though, as Mrs. Glegg observed to Mrs. Deane, a mother of a family, like Bessy, with a husband always going to law, might have been expected to know better.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The carcase was roasted whole and eaten; not a morsel of the flesh might be left over.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

This too was a better faith than the one it had replaced: than faith merely in the Everlasting Nothing and man's Digestive Power; lower than which no faith can go.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

There are five louis d’or to be earned!” Not a man in the group stirred.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

On the eleventh night after my latest encounter with that gentleman—they were all numbered now—I had an alarm that perilously skirted it and that indeed, from the particular quality of its unexpectedness, proved quite my sharpest shock.
— from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

it is even now at my lips."
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The mere recurrence to those songs, even now, afflicts me; and while I am writing these lines, an expression of feeling has already found its way down my cheek.
— from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave by Frederick Douglass

I seek no copy now of life’s first half: Leave here the pages with long musing curled, And write me new my future’s epigraph, New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!
— from Sonnets from the Portuguese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Uncle Arthur does not talk much of her now, though I believe he kisses her every night and morning.
— from Tracy Park: A Novel by Mary Jane Holmes

“I expect not,” Ashurst murmured, and went out.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

The affair has leaked out at your end, not at mine."
— from The House of Whispers by William Le Queux

The former related the tradition that one of their ancestors returned from the spirit land and informed their nation that the journey thither consumed just four days, and that collecting fuel every night added much to the toil and fatigue the soul encountered, all of which could be spared it".
— from An Introduction to the mortuary customs of the North American Indians by H. C. (Harry Crécy) Yarrow

So they stand with their limbs enlacing, Nymph and mortal, upon this shore,
— from A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems by Madison Julius Cawein

Whilst quaffing our beverage, he gave me an account of the various mortifications to which he had of late been subject, dwelling with particular bitterness on the conduct of Hunter, who he said came every night and mouthed him, and afterwards went away without paying for what he had drank or smoked, in which conduct he was closely imitated by a clan of fellows who constantly attended him.
— from The Romany Rye by George Borrow

Among the properties of matter revealed by electricity none are more striking than those displayed in tubes containing highly rarified gases.
— from Inventors at Work, with Chapters on Discovery by George Iles

And especially noteworthy among medical amulets are those inscribed with mystic sentences, words, or characters, for by their examination and study we may acquire some definite knowledge of the mental condition of the people who made use of them.
— from Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery by Robert Means Lawrence