“They despise and laugh at auguries, and the other vain and superstitious ways of divination, so much observed among other nations; but have great reverence for such miracles as cannot flow from any of the powers of nature, and look on them as effects and indications of the presence of the Supreme Being, of which they say many instances have occurred among them; and that sometimes their public prayers, which upon great and dangerous occasions they have solemnly put up to God, with assured confidence of being heard, have been answered in a miraculous manner.
— from Utopia by More, Thomas, Saint

He had eaten no food since midday, he told me early in his narrative, and I found some mutton and bread in the pantry and brought it into the room.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

My uncle looked keenly at the document for some moments and then declared that it was Runic.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

“Did not I forbid you to speak both at a time?” said the Prince: “you, Jaquez, answer; for the other fool seems more distracted than thou art; what is the matter?”
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

At that time my mother had been pregnant for six months, and she was allowed to remain away from the stage until after Easter.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

These she knew were not to be found at Madame Cheron's, whose inclinations led her into a life of dissipation, which her ample fortune encouraged; and, having given her answer, she felt somewhat more at ease.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Every part of a bone she makes bone, every part of the flesh she makes flesh, and so with fat and all the rest; there is no part which she has not touched, elaborated, and embellished.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

“Four points.” “Not much.” “It’s your turn.” “I have made an enormous mistake.” “You are doing well.” “Fifteen.” “Seven more.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

questioning &c. v.; interrogation, interrogatory; interpellation; challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism; feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy[obs3]; leading question; discussion &c. (reasoning) 476.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

You would have more disasters still, more families stripped, more unfortunates reduced to begging in the streets!'
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

"Perhaps it may be well to use the key held by this man Keene, who has been personating me for so many days," Lieutenant Carstens said.
— from Boy Scouts in the Philippines; Or, The Key to the Treaty Box by G. Harvey (George Harvey) Ralphson

Under these circumstances the child’s life could hardly be a happy one; she was, moreover, scarcely strong enough for the late hours and the exposure to all sorts of weather which her work entailed, and in spite of her brisk, managing ways she began to crave for something more strong and trustworthy to support her than her grandfather whose simile of the lifeless trunk of the tree kept up by the ivy supporting it, had been singularly near the truth.
— from Wayfaring Men: A Novel by Edna Lyall

Later on, his nephew, Dierick of Alsace, in gratitude for some marvellous answer to prayer obtained through the intercession of the saint, restored and embellished the church; hence the erroneous tradition which makes him its founder.
— from The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

These, and others of his essays, found so much favor that, during his second sojourn in France, as secretary to Lord Hertford, in 1763-66, he was already honored as a philosopher of world-wide renown.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

The morning was yet young, wanting something of four o' the clock when we came to the lake-side, and I felt a passion of wrath spring within me at what had formerly served me well—namely, the culpable neglect of watch and ward upon the castle.
— from A Gentleman-at-Arms: Being Passages in the Life of Sir Christopher Rudd, Knight by Herbert Strang

Free Silk, Millinery, turbans or caps each 0 3 6 Silk, Millinery, hats or bonnets each 0 7 0 Silk, dresses each 1 10 0 Silk Hangings, and other manufactures of silk per cent.
— from The Overland Guide-book A complete vade-mecum for the overland traveller, to India viâ Egypt. by Barber, James, active 1837-1839

And though the judicial debarring of judicatories be not all, but it must be ruled by another rule, yet are we willing to take it for so much; for even that will prove there is yet a malignant party in Scotland, because many are standing under church censures [albeit we are sorry there is so much precipitancy and haste in taking off the censures].
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

[473] Mend 'em, for shame, my lords.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

the exception of pork, almost every kind of meat, including beef, veal, mutton, lamb, game, and poultry, is used for soup making.
— from Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 3: Soup; Meat; Poultry and Game; Fish and Shell Fish by Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences