It is a pious consolation to me that, through my interference, a sufficient space was allowed them for repentance of the evil and corrupt practices into which, as a matter of course, every Custom-House officer must be supposed to fall.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Moreover, this new head had the further reputation of being a bear in his manners, and was, according to all reports, a man of a class in all respects the opposite of that to which his predecessor had belonged, and to which Stepan Arkadyevitch had hitherto belonged himself.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The following is a clear example of soul abduction without contact:— The simplest way, perhaps, of abducting another person’s soul is to go out, when the sun clears ( matahari mĕncharak , at sunrise?), or when the newly-risen moon looks red, and standing with the big toe of the right foot resting on the big toe of the left, to make a trumpet of your right hand and recite the appropriate charm through this improvised speaking-trumpet thrice.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

weluc = weoloc welung f. revolution , OEG 28 30 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

He had had exaggerated ideas of the change which his altered opinions might make in his friends' reception of him; but although some of them might have felt shocked or grieved or indignant at his falling off in the abstract, as soon as they saw the face of the man whom they had once loved, they forgot his opinions in himself; or only remembered them enough to give an additional tender gravity to their manner.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Princess Bielokonski had not returned to Moscow yet, and was apparently staying on for reasons of her own.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He felt reassured on finding that they were all there and quite genuine.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

The link ('Note') is to the far right of the relevant title.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

“You'll excuse me, sir,” he said, when this pause had given him time to reflect, “for running on in this way about my own feelings, like that foolish dog of mine howling in a storm, when there's nobody wants to listen to me.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

On the first recall of Pausanias, B. C. 477, the allies had unanimously placed Aristides at their head.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

Vives, who spent most of his life in Flanders and in England,—in which latter country he was the teacher of Mary Tudor, the later queen of England,—was regarded by contemporaries as a philosopher of the first rank, on a plane with Erasmus.
— from A History of Spain founded on the Historia de España y de la civilización española of Rafael Altamira by Rafael Altamira

Alcohol, opium, tea, are all very excellent things in their way; but imagine continuous alcohol, an incessant opium, or to receive, ocean-like, a perennially flowing river of tea!
— from Certain Personal Matters by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

On a final review of his own generous labours, he is supposed to have questioned the very existence of Virtue, though he had made it the idol of his life; a striking proof, that the temperate and invariable energy of soul, which alone perhaps deserves the name of true Courage, can only proceed from a fuller knowledge and love of GOD; from the animating assurance, that, however we may prosper or fail in the earthly success of our endeavours to do good, the merit of the attempt is registered in Heaven; and we secure to ourselves the everlasting approbation of our Almighty Parent, in proportion as we approach towards that blessed model of Perfect Benevolence, who has taught us, by his divine example, to compassionate and to relieve the sufferings of the wretched.
— from The Eulogies of Howard: A Vision by William Hayley

In the spring of 1847, President Young and a small company numbering 143, including three women, started from the Missouri river to find beyond the Rocky Mountains a place of rest, where they might build and inhabit homes and worship God "free from the furious rage of mobs.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

Loewis gives the following report of a [Pg 233] female that he kept.
— from Birds and All Nature, Vol. 6, No. 5, December 1899 Illustrated by Color Photography by Various

At the moment my eye first rested on him there, he was peering into one of the boxes, and I saw him soon in the act of whispering some mystery, apparently, into the ear of the comrade who sat by his side.
— from Knots Untied; Or, Ways and By-ways in the Hidden Life of American Detectives by George S. McWatters