So that finding ourselves, in the midst of the greatest wilderness of waters in the world, without victuals, we gave ourselves for lost men and prepared for death.
— from New Atlantis by Francis Bacon

“Meary, oi'm afear'd you don't feel like oie.” “P'r'aps not—women can't feel like men.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

As I say, it is the time of tremendous moral and political agitation; ideas of conflicting forms, governments, theologies, seethe and dash like ocean storms, and ebb and flow like mighty tides.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The weather, however, suddenly became serene; and my two friends left me on a journey among the Alps, and lost, in the magnificent scenes which they present, all memory of their ghostly visions.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The four lumbricales muscles.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

"Thus, an impulse which originally spread its effects over the whole body, or at least over many of its movable parts, is gradually determined to a single definite organ, in which it effects the contraction of a few limited muscles.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

But in this iron age of ours, we respect riches alone, (for a maid must buy her husband now with a great dowry, if she will have him) covetousness and filthy lucre mars all good matches, or some such by-respects.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But no; first let me introduce you to the staff.”
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

He was a funny little man, a great dandy, but wonderfully clever.”
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

My father left me a considerable estate, most part of which I spent in debauches during my youth; but I perceived my error, and called to mind that riches were perishable, and quickly considered, that by my irregular way of living, I wretchedly misspent my time, which is the most valuable thing in the world.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01 by Anonymous

The court had quit Versailles for La Muette the day before, to be nearer the city; and on the appointed morning, which the watchers for omens delightedly remarked as one of midsummer brilliancy,[8] the most superb procession that even Paris had ever witnessed issued from the gates of the old hunting-lodge, whose earlier occupants had been animated by a very different spirit.[9] That the honors of the day might be wholly the queen's, Louis himself did not accompany her, but followed her three hours later, to meet her at the Hôtel de Ville.
— from The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France by Charles Duke Yonge

Fortunately, Lily met a friend at the fire, and Tom was free for the time being.
— from Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis

There were not exceeding fifty American young ladies present; the otters were married, and these were few, lor most of the ladies had left the city on the approach of the British.—Watson's Annals, ii., 293. ***
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 2 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

Morton and Glover saw Mrs Edmonstone and Miss Armytage to their carriage, and were going back to wait for the rest of their shipmates, when a young man in military uniform stepped up to the former, and, politely bowing, said that he had been deputed by his friend, Lieutenant Maguire, to demand the only reparation which one gentleman could afford another, for an insult he had that evening received.
— from Ronald Morton; or, the Fire Ships: A Story of the Last Naval War by William Henry Giles Kingston

“ ‘There was one hope,’ he replied, faintly, ‘one last hope that my fatal life might end in peace.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXV, No. 6, December 1849 by Various

A few miles west of the main divide and but three miles from the Great 411 Northern track, lies the famous Lake McDonald, almost concealed by remarkably high and steep mountains and thick forests.
— from Then and Now; or, Thirty-Six Years in the Rockies Personal Reminiscences of Some of the First Pioneers of the State of Montana by Robert Vaughn

A white or spotted veil is thrown over the visage, in order that the adjuncts that properly belong to the theatre may not be immediately detected in the glare of daylight; and thus, with diaphanous tinted face, large painted eyes, and stereotyped smile, the lady goes forth looking much more as if she had stepped out of the green room of a theatre, or from a Haymarket saloon, than from an English home.
— from Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton

What fruit am I expected to bring forth? Let me train and cultivate page 241
— from Westminster Sermons with a Preface by Charles Kingsley