The fortune-teller, giving a nod to all and a peculiar wink to me, departed on his Northern tour, chuckling within himself as he took the Stamford road.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But before this monitory was published, the mob had got a notion that Antony Calas was the next day to have entered into the fraternity of the White Penitents.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

As matters now stand, it would be necessary to corrupt both court and jury; for where the jury have gone evidently wrong, the court will generally grant a new trial, and it would be in most cases of little use to practice upon the jury, unless the court could be likewise gained.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Of the process just set forth, however, it could still be said as decidedly that it is only a glorious appearance, namely the afore-mentioned Apollonian illusion, through the influence of which we are to be delivered from the Dionysian obtrusion and excess.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This practice having become rather obsolete at the time in which he wrote, we must impute his continuance of it to his opinion of its propriety, upon its established principles of grammar, and not to any prejudice of education, or an affectation of singularity.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

We afterwards learned that she was built at Guayaquil, and named the Ayacucho, after the place where the battle was fought that gave Peru her independence, and was now owned by a Scotchman named Wilson, who commanded her, and was engaged in the trade between Callao, the Sandwich Islands, and California.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

XIII, Div. II , the Kayikuna Tabuyo spell), there can be found an allusion to the prow-boards, but only to the term describing them in general, and not to any special decorative motive.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

That other objects, considered merely as ideas , are like his body, that is, like it, fill space (which itself can only be present as idea), and also, like it, are causally active in space, is indeed demonstrably certain from the law of causality which is a priori valid for ideas, and which admits of no effect without a cause; but apart from the fact that we can only reason from an effect to a cause generally, and not to a similar cause, we are still in the sphere of mere ideas, in which alone the law of causality is valid, and beyond which it can never take us.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Christian leaned forward: “It must be right to get as near truth as possible; every step gained is something.
— from Villa Rubein, and Other Stories by John Galsworthy

[Footnote 1: He capitulated at Suhlingen on honorable terms, but was deceived by Mortier, the French general, and Napoleon took advantage of a clause not to recognize all the terms of capitulation.
— from Germany from the Earliest Period, Volume 4 by Wolfgang Menzel

The proceedings would be reversed by a higher court, and the party would be granted a new trial at a place and in accordance with his constitutional privileges.
— from The Short Constitution by William F. (William Fletcher) Russell

Yes is just as good as No To all questions.
— from A line-o'-verse or two by Bert Leston Taylor

"You will go at night to all the shepherds, one after the other, and bring them together in front of the lonely inn near the main-road.
— from The Day of Wrath by Mór Jókai

“Forgettest thou, brave Sancho,” said she, “that the God who gave to thee the estate and rule of king, (since thou dost so wrest my words to prove thy usurpation,) forgettest thou that He hath also ordained, ‘Thou shalt honor thy father?’” “Nay, nay, my most gracious aunt, now thou accusest me beyond my desert.
— from Heroines of the Crusades by C. A. (Celestia Angenette) Bloss

Search was made along the South shore of the bay, and two or three leagues towards Cape Corrientes , a small brook of good fresh water was found; and good anchorage near to a small round Island which lies half a mile from the main, and about four leagues NEastward of the Cape.
— from History of the Buccaneers of America by James Burney

don't go and noise that abroad; it will be a detestable example."
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

Almost equally beautiful is the commercial coral ( Corallium rubrum ) whose vivid red has given a name to a certain tint.
— from Colouration in Animals and Plants by Alfred Tylor