I resolved to gather all my faculties together, and for ever rid me of this intolerable incubus.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

When he had gone I told my entertainers what had happened the evening before and in the morning, and the fair Esther reproached me for preferring such bad company to her.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

By no means; it would be the ruin of my establishment; not a girl would remain, and the character of my rooms would be lost for ever," replied Mrs. King, goaded on by the relentless Cotton.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

I said farther, “that if good fortune ever restored me to my native country, to relate my travels hither, as I resolved to do, everybody would believe, that I said the thing that was not, that I invented the story out of my own head; and (with all possible respect to himself, his family, and friends, and under his promise of not being offended) our countrymen would hardly think it probable that a Houyhnhnm should be the presiding creature of a nation, and a Yahoo the brute.”
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

“That was very false economy,” remarked Mrs. Fairfax, who now again caught the drift of the dialogue.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

If you want to avoid fastening on the thread afresh for each row, make a loop over the thumb.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

Or he may have been muddled altogether by long staring at whatever he HAS got, and by drink, and by hanging about the Lord Chancellor's Court and hearing of documents for ever," returns Mr. Weevle.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

No word of comment followed; each reader made his own fearful one.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The MDA also held equipment for earth resources multispectral photography, materials processing, and astronomy.
— from Rockets, Missiles, and Spacecraft of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution by Lynne C. Murphy

While it may be quite intelligible in such terms it is not thereby explained; for every response must have as its antecedent an inherited connection in the nervous system determined on biological grounds.
— from Territory in Bird Life by Henry Eliot Howard

This was a grain of comfort, and I looked forward confidently to a long future of remuneration and renown, when a letter of regret arrived from the fair editress, returning my story, and explaining, that, being unable to meet her engagements, the magazine had been sold to pay her debts.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

We shall first examine rather more closely, the origin of this people, and the differences they present in various parts of the peninsula.
— from The Human Race by Louis Figuier

The end of a year found Emil rather more than holding his own pecuniarily.
— from The Undercurrent by Robert Grant

It deserves reprinting for English readers more than three-fourths of the fiction which is wont to cross the Atlantic under similar circumstances."
— from Concerning Lafcadio Hearn; With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman by George M. (George Milbrey) Gould

How long the female Egyptian ruler maintained her sway may, perhaps, best be seen by the following texts describing the political homage paid to the living goddess of the Egyptians under Ptolemaic and Roman rules.
— from The Fundamental Principles of Old and New World Civilizations A Comparative Research Based on a Study of the Ancient Mexican Religious, Sociological, and Calendrical Systems by Zelia Nuttall