The weapon was evidently not intended for either of them, and the young Volsung princes were next invited to try their strength.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

When Allan Woodcourt spoke to you, my dear, he spoke with my knowledge and consent—but I gave him no encouragement, not I, for these surprises were my great reward, and I was too miserly to part with a scrap of it.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This is the miscreant that I was going to benefit with all my little arts, and that, even now, I feel so much for, as to wish to let him go!
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

In the fourth row every number is formed by adding together the number just above it and the preceding number.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Since this sort of details might, particularly at the present moment, and to use an expression now in fashion, give to the Bishop of D—— a certain “pantheistical” physiognomy, and induce the belief, either to his credit or discredit, that he entertained one of those personal philosophies which are peculiar to our century, which sometimes spring up in solitary spirits, and there take on a form and grow until they usurp the place of religion, we insist upon it, that not one of those persons who knew Monseigneur Welcome would have thought himself authorized to think anything of the sort.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Finally, the interchange of certain kinds of error with each other shows us what is the important and essential element of the error, not its form or the means of which it avails itself, but the purpose which it serves and which is to be achieved by the most various paths.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

So when poor Poetry is mishandled, even now I feel as unhappy as I did about the thief.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

against, opposite Erbyniad, n. a receiving Erbyniwr, n. a receiver Erch, n. dark brown, or dun: a. dusky, dun: dismal Erchi, to ask, to demand Erchlais, n. a dismal noise Erchlias, n. raven grey Erchliw, n. a dun colour Erchryn, a. agitating, quaking Erchryniad, n. agitating Erchrynu, v. to agitate Erchwyn, n. a side or stead Erchwynedig, a. transitive Erchwyniad, n. transition Erchwynio, v. to make a transit Erchwys, n. a pack of hounds Erchyll, a. ghastly, horrible Erchylldod, n. ghastliness Erchyllrwydd, n. frightfulness Erchyllu, v. to make gastly Erchynu, v. to uplift Erchywynu, v. to transmigrate Erdolygu, v. to beseech Erdd, n. impulse, forward: prep.
— from A Pocket Dictionary: Welsh-English by William Richards

I don't reproach you, for even now I feel that the ignorant and cold darkness that I should have lived in if you had not attracted me by that letter—valentine you call it—would have been worse than my knowledge of you, though it has brought this misery.
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

There were plenty of women with excited nerves in France, nerves much more excited than those of Jeanne, who was always reasonable at the height of her inspiration; but to none of them did it happen to mount the breach, to take the city, to drive the enemy—up to that moment invincible,—flying from the field.
— from Jeanne D'Arc: Her Life And Death by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

“I mean by co-operation, not only fellowship between trading firms, but between trading nations; so that it shall no more be thought (as it is now, with ludicrous and vain selfishness) an advantage for one nation to undersell another, and take its occupation away from it; but that the primal and eternal law of commerce shall be of all men understood—viz., that every nation is fitted by its character and the nature of its territories for some particular employments and manufactures, and that it is the true interest of every other nation to encourage it in such speciality.”
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham

scr hh E ngland is frequently said to be known as the Ringing Isle, from the fact that wherever the stranger or foreigner turns, or stays, in this land, he is sure to meet with the well tuned bells, and well timed changes, pealing forth from our venerable church towers and steeples; whilst on the Continent of Europe, and in other parts of the world, the ear is accustomed only to the hodgepodge, jangle or clatter of several bells, either in or out of tune, no matter which, all striking as fast as possible, in utter disorder, seemingly in a race for the greatest number of blows per minute, for each or any one in particular.
— from First Steps to Bell Ringing Being an Introduction to the Healthful and Pleasant Exercise of Bell Ringing in Rounds and Changes upon Church Bells by Samuel B. Goslin

"But I doan't believe in 'em," said the sick man, smiling again, "an' you doan't believe in 'em, noather, if folk say true!
— from The Case of Richard Meynell by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

[34] The commonest utterances of the commonest citizens in the time of the Colour Revolt seem to have been suffused with a richer tinge of word or thought; and to that era we are even now indebted for our finest poetry and for whatever rhythm still remains in the more scientific utterance of these modern days.
— from Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott

D "Dance in the Village Tavern, The," Episode (No. II.) from Lenau's "Faust" , 174 , 175 .
— from Stories of Symphonic Music A Guide to the Meaning of Important Symphonies, Overtures, and Tone-poems from Beethoven to the Present Day by Lawrence Gilman

A ride across country after a rattling pack of English hounds on a thoroughbred hunter with a field of red-coated squires is an experience which few hunters on this side of the water have ever enjoyed, but with the incidents of which every reader of English novels is familiar.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

To me whose emotional nature, inherited from a mother gifted with delicate tastes and a refined enthusiasm for the beautiful had been curiously discouraged by association with my father's scientific pursuits, this lively panorama constantly fed my dreams with pleasing pictures.
— from The Certainty of a Future Life in Mars Being the Posthumous Papers of Bradford Torrey Dodd by L. P. (Louis Pope) Gratacap

And as those pursuits are so diverse, and cannot all be directly pictured, it is fitting that they should be represented by a picture which is a symbol of them all, by a picture of something no longer existing, not introduced for itself, but suggesting whole fields of varied activity, different and yet all akin.
— from The Charm of Oxford by J. (Joseph) Wells

But even now it frightens me sometimes in the moonlight.
— from Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore