I set the extinguisher on the flame, receiving as I did so a slap on my hand and a petulant ‘cross thing!’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

I ask for none of your letters filled with learning, and writ for reputation; all I desire is such letters as the heart dictates, and which the hand can scarce write fast enough.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

It is necessary for the well-being of mankind that in each generation children should be produced in adequate numbers, neither too many nor too few; and that, as they cannot be left to provide for themselves, they should be adequately nourished and protected during the period of infancy; and further, that they should be carefully trained in good habits, intellectual, moral, and physical: and it is commonly believed that the best or even the only known means of attaining these ends in even a tolerable degree is afforded by the existing institution of the Family, resting as it does on a basis of legal and moral rules combined.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

[Pg 121] fiery rays, as it did that day.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

The place was a narrow passage between high walls of lava, a crack in the knotted rock, and on either side interwoven heaps of sea-mat, palm-fans, and reeds leaning against the rock formed rough and impenetrably dark dens.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I was full of business, examining tradesmen's books, adding up columns, paying money, filing receipts, and I dare say making a great bustle about it when Mr. Guppy was announced and shown in.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

593 represents one belonging to the Page 312 {312} end of the fifteenth century, which is one of the few remaining, and is delicately forged in one piece of thin, hard steel.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

παραλογίζηται] ‘ lead you astray by false reasoning ’, as in Daniel xiv.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

It is important to realise, and few readers are in danger of ignoring, this extraordinary deadness of feeling, but it is also important not to confuse it with a general positive ill-will.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

With a 'sympathy and empathy' never before seen, the Mai Bhas formula worked magic for Rajan — as it did, I must concede in fairness, to a couple of other politicos, some with a degree of merit, like Luizinho (my namesake) and Churchill Alemao.
— from Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various

but tho it be misty weather, and he hoodwink'd by Venus, still he sails forward, running all in danger, that before was so far preserved.
— from The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by A. Marsh

“Americans: Though I have served you with an indefatigable zeal, I have in my life received only bitterness for recompense, and I die your creditor.
— from Beaumarchais and the War of American Independence, Vol. 2 by Elizabeth Sarah Kite

"I came here for revenge, and I don't think——" "There is only one thing for you to do, be true to those who trust you," said the voice.
— from Half-Hours with Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

The George made a fair run and in due time entered the mouth of the Tyne and was soon after moored at the docks at Newcastle where Paul left her.
— from The Story of Paul Boyton: Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World by Paul Boyton

Bold can he talk and fairly ride, and I doubt not he will fight well."
— from The Prose Marmion A Tale of the Scottish Border by Sara Davis Jenkins

Nearly every one of the segments bears one pair of appendages, which can be referred by their forked nature to the two-parted, oarlike flaps of sandworms, but the appendages of crustacea have departed from their prototypes in functional respects and in details of structure.
— from The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope by Henry Edward Crampton

The Fifth Race And Its Divine Instructors.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

But I am firmly resolved, and I demand it of you as my friend."
— from The Coming of the Ice by Green Peyton