Under its influence (and perhaps to make up for the want of the softer feeling) I was seized with a violent indignation against the assailant from whom she had suffered so much; and I felt that on sufficient proof I could have revengefully pursued Orlick, or any one else, to the last extremity.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Onesicritus, describing minutely the country of Musicanus, which he says is the most southerly part 349 of India, relates, that there are some large trees the branches of which extend to the length even of twelve cubits.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Momoy, the betrothed of Sensia, the eldest of the daughters—a pretty and vivacious girl, rather given to joking—had left the window where he was accustomed to spend his evenings in amorous discourse, and this action seemed to be very annoying to the lory whose cage hung from the eaves there, the lory endeared to the house from its ability to greet everybody in the morning with marvelous phrases of love.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

Presently the door commenced to recede before me until it had sunk into the wall fifty feet, then it stopped and slid easily to the left, exposing a short, narrow corridor of concrete, at the further end of which was another door, similar in every respect to the one I had just passed.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

There is a finely translated epigram in the greek anthology which admirably expresses this state of mind, this acceptance of loss as unatoned for, even tho the lost element might be one's self: "A shipwrecked sailor, buried on this coast, Bids you set sail.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

It was in connection with the same expedition that the little exchange between two of the chief’s wives took place, [ 474 ] mentioned before (in Chapter XI, Division II , under 4) and one or two more domestic Kula acts were performed, a son of To’uluwa offering him a necklace (see Plates LXI and LXII ) and receiving a pair of armshells afterwards.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Besides, Candide was possessed of money and jewels, and though he had lost one hundred large red sheep, laden with the greatest treasure upon earth; though the knavery of the Dutch skipper still sat heavy upon his mind; yet when he reflected upon what he had still left, and when he mentioned the name of Cunegonde, especially towards the latter end of a repast, he inclined to Pangloss's doctrine.
— from Candide by Voltaire

But still the hope Experience taught to live, Equal to judge—you're candid to forgive.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

There is a spot in the middle of the abdomen edged with black and a black band on each side of the head divided in front, the branches extending to the lateral eyes of both rows.
— from The Common Spiders of the United States by J. H. (James Henry) Emerton

And herein he was far more inexcusable than his grandfather; for Ahaz had at least been driven by desperate extremity to this last expedient, but Manasseh was living, if not in prosperity, at least in unbroken peace.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Kings by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

He walked on very thoughtful, and the more 'e thought, the less 'e liked it.
— from Deep Waters, the Entire Collection by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Along the summits of the mountains in the eastern range, it is true, the light still lingered, receding step by step from the earth into the clouds that were gathering with the evening mist, about the limited horizon, but the frozen lake lay without a shadow on its bosom; the dwellings were becoming already gloomy and indistinct, and the wood-cutters were shouldering their axes and preparing to enjoy, throughout the long evening before them, the comforts of those exhilarating fires that their labor had been supplying with fuel.
— from The Pioneers; Or, The Sources of the Susquehanna by James Fenimore Cooper

For, you see, this is to be a somewhat unusual transaction, and it may be embarrassing to the lady, even to myself.
— from The Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker

Keeping in touch with the old phraseology, we might then call a current ‘negative’ that flowed from the more excited to the less excited.
— from Response in the Living and Non-Living by Jagadis Chandra Bose

All these factors taken together often give a last experience great associative strength, even though the last experience is not recent.
— from The Science of Human Nature A Psychology for Beginners by William Henry Pyle

Once Rutherford worked out the theory of the nuclear atom, it became apparent that the energy involved in radioactivity and in solar radiation had to involve components of the atom that were more massive and more energetic than the light electrons.
— from Worlds Within Worlds: The Story of Nuclear Energy, Volume 1 (of 3) Atomic Weights; Energy; Electricity by Isaac Asimov

De Craye was in the first carriage as escort to the ladies Eleanor and Isabel. Willoughby, with Clara, Laetitia, and Dr. Middleton, followed, all silent, for the Rev. Doctor was ostensibly pondering; and Willoughby was damped a little when he unlocked his mouth to say: "
— from The Egoist: A Comedy in Narrative by George Meredith

To give proper effect to this little episode, I must take the reader to a pretty village, as it was just then beginning to be, one hundred and fifty years ago, on the banks of the Hudson, some twenty miles, only, from the city of New York.
— from Dealings with the Dead, Volume 2 (of 2) by Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius) Sargent