A Flurry in Stocks S ome days after this meeting, Albert de Morcerf visited the Count of Monte Cristo at his house in the Champs-Élysées, which had already assumed that palace-like appearance which the count’s princely fortune enabled him to give even to his most temporary residences.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

For nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes, still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations for cathedrals.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

The two months that had elapsed since she had parted, as she supposed for ever, from Egremont, while they had not less abounded than the preceding time in that pleasing public excitement which her father’s career, in her estimation alike useful, honourable, and distinguished, occasioned her, had been fruitful in some sources of satisfaction of a softer and more domestic character.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

He was the vanishing fellow I saw sitting on a chair in Baron Stott-Wartenheim’s bathroom.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

The two grave diggers flung in several spadefuls of earth, and then stopped and asked Rastignac for their fee.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

He seized another shaft, the best, Aglow with living flame; It struck Suváhu on the chest, And dead to earth he came.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

2 k.o. thin, fan-shaped bivalve, found in sandy seabeds, of no food value.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Ravenous, and now very faint, I devoured a spoonful or two of my portion without thinking of its taste; but the first edge of hunger blunted, I perceived I had got in hand a nauseous mess; burnt porridge is almost as bad as rotten potatoes; famine itself soon sickens over it.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

9 But the mingling of ‘something like dust’ with the water held in a cup over the fire, is strongly suggestive of the Jewish method of preparing holy water, ‘the water of separation.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

Never so helpless in shape, it is the noblest of feelings, and a feeling in some shape or other perennial as man himself.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

To begin with, she was as I have said, a sufferer from intense shyness; shyness of that kind most painful and difficult to contend with, better perhaps defined as moral timidity, which shrinks with almost morbid horror from giving or witnessing pain or discomfort, which, but for the constraining and restraining force of a strong sense of duty, would any day gladly endure personal suffering or neglect, or allow wrong-doing to go unrebuked, rather than attempt the slightest remonstrance.
— from The Third Miss St Quentin by Mrs. Molesworth

To distinguish it from other festivals, Marduk's festival is sometimes spoken of as the "great" or the "lofty" Akitu.
— from The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Morris Jastrow

We should be greatly surprised to find in Shakespeare signs of the nineteenth century feeling for mountain scenery, but we can no more doubt that within certain limits he was sensitive to the beauty of nature than that he was fond of music.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

In a lake near Maldonado, from which the water had been nearly drained, and which, in consequence, swarmed with small fry, I saw several of these birds, generally in small flocks, flying rapidly backwards and forwards close to the surface of the lake.
— from Journal of Researches into the Natural History and Geology of the Countries Visited During the Voyage Round the World of H.M.S. Beagle Under the Command of Captain Fitz Roy, R.N. by Charles Darwin

At the foot of the declivity, flowed its shallow stream of water.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

"When first I saw signs of strange weapons I was inclined to think so; but the remarkable character of the footmarks caused me to reconsider my views.
— from The Sign of the Four by Arthur Conan Doyle

The wood of the baobab tree is of no use commercially, being so spongy that a ·303 bullet will go clean through even the biggest of them; but the bark, which is fibrous, is sometimes stripped off by the natives, and used for making ropes, and a coarse kind of cloth.
— from A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland The adventures, observations & experiences of a cinematograph actress in West African forests whilst collecting films depicting native life and when posing as the white woman in Anglo-African cinematograph dramas by Meg Gehrts

There is famine in some sections of the country already.
— from Watchbird by Robert Sheckley

Accepting this view as on the whole well founded, I shall speak of an ideational, or rather an imaginational; and a sensational nervous process, and not of an ideational and a sensational centre.
— from Illusions: A Psychological Study by James Sully

The Shepherd cabinet was remarkable for beautifully struck Anglo-Norman halfpennies and farthings in silver, some of them of the highest rarity, if not unique; and, then, Mr Montagu was in the field.
— from The Confessions of a Collector by William Carew Hazlitt