And yet he lied as he said it, for it chanced that after breakfast I met Mrs. Barrymore in the long corridor with the sun full upon her face.
— from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle

For very joy, it felt ready to jump out of people's hands, and scarcely noticed that its cork had been drawn, and its contents emptied out, till it found itself carried to a cellar, to be left there and forgotten.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

And in practice there is little reason to apprehend any inconvenience; because, in a short course of time, the wants of the States will naturally reduce themselves within A VERY NARROW COMPASS; and in the interim, the United States will, in all probability, find it convenient to abstain wholly from those objects to which the particular States would be inclined to resort.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Oh, I was young, for I could turn again to you, most finite and most beautiful, and taste the stuff of half-remembered dreams, sweet and new on your mouth.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

But whatever form they may have taken, one fact is common to all past ages, viz., the exploitation of one part of society by the other.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

The ascetic fails in consequence to assert his own independence.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Finally, I conclude that, although small isolated areas probably have been in some respects highly favourable for the production of new species, yet that the course of modification will generally have been more rapid on large areas; and what is more important, that the new forms produced on large areas, which already have been victorious over many competitors, will be those that will spread most widely, will give rise to most new varieties and species, and will thus play an important part in the changing history of the organic world.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Unworking Paris, male and female, is crowding thither, all day, to sign or to see.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

The manner in which the magical [ 424 ] force is conceived to act, parallel to the ordinary efforts but independent of them; the emotional reaction to certain types of magic and magician; the kariyala ; the intercourse with spirits during the performances, all these properties differentiate magic from the ordinary activities of man.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

The Honourable Herbert Strongley received an intimation from an aunt of his, that if he would find it convenient to abstain for a while from his normal method of living, and come and stay with her in the country, she would introduce him to a charming girl staying at a neighbouring house.
— from The Man in Ratcatcher, and Other Stories by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

He had been very much pleased of late by Flaxie's attentive behavior at church; and he thought now, as he looked at her fine young face, that she was improving faster in character than any other little girl he knew in Laurel Grove.
— from Kittyleen Flaxie Frizzle Stories by Sophie May

Many a time you may follow the rocky highway from St. Pol even around the last land of France, and so to Brest, yet never see sign of Notre Dame des Eaux; for it clings to a cliff somewhat lower than the road, and between grows a stunted thicket of harsh and ragged trees, their skeleton white branches, tortured and contorted, thrusting sorrowfully out of the hard, dark foliage that still grows below, where the rise of land below the highway gives some protection.
— from Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram

It would be impossible to say how high this story had been, as the floor is covered to a considerable extent with stones from the fallen walls.
— from Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines by Lewis Henry Morgan

She pulled up the stick, I’m sure she did, for I can tie a knot as well as Pete.”
— from Magnum Bonum; Or, Mother Carey's Brood by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

My instruction has been so thorough, thanks to your unceasing efforts, that I find I can take a very good stand.
— from At Boarding School with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed

The space occupied by this fluid is called the anterior chamber of the eye.
— from Principles of Public Health A Simple Text Book on Hygiene, Presenting the Principles Fundamental to the Conservation of Individual and Community Health by Thomas Dyer Tuttle

From the period* at which this colony was able to raise a sufficiency of grain for its consumption, the adoption of this measure has been imperatively called for by the wants and circumstances of its inhabitants; and it is to so palpable an omission, that the constant succession of abundance and scarcity, which, to the astonishment of many inquiring persons, has for the last fifteen years alternately prevailed there, is mainly ascribable.
— from Statistical, Historical and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales and its Dependent Settlements in Van Diemen's Land With a Particular Enumeration of the Advantages Which These Colonies Offer for Emigration, and Their Superiority in Many Respects Over Those Possessed by the United States of America by W. C. (William Charles) Wentworth