I think he must have got from Riderhood in a paper, the drug, or whatever it was, that afterwards stupefied me, but I am far from sure.
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

v [A12] win the first prize. — plur n ground floor. — ran n first-run movie.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

ii, p. 449): "Our natural way of thinking about these coarser emotions, grief, fear, rage, love, is that the mental perception of some fact excites the mental affection called the emotion, and that this latter state of mind gives rise to the bodily expression.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

As usual, the lama had led Kim by cow-track and by-road, far from the main route along which Hurree Babu, that 'fearful man', had bucketed three days before through a storm to which nine Englishmen out of ten would have given full right of way.
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

They were clad in graceful, flowing robes, highly ornamented with metal and jewels, and their luxuriant hair was of a beautiful golden and reddish bronze.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

In the preceding chapter we have seen reason to conclude that, while obedience to recognised rules of duty tends, under ordinary circumstances, to promote the happiness of the agent, there are yet no adequate empirical grounds for regarding the performance of duty as a universal or infallible means to the attainment of this end.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Malte Brun considers that there are strong grounds for receiving the Islandic traditions commented by the Danish Varro, M. Suhm.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

GERARD, Farmer, Rennes deputy.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

In the loose rhimes of every Poetaster; Could I be more then any man that lives, Great, fair, rich, wise in all Superlatives; Yet I more freely would these gifts resign 40 Then ever fortune would have made them mine, And hold one minute of this holy leasure, Beyond the riches of this empty pleasure.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

n, when they receive good from him of whom they were expecting evil, are bound more closely to their benefactor; thus the people quickly become more devoted to him than if he had been raised to the principality by their favours; and the prince can win their affections in many ways, but as these vary according to the circumstances one cannot give fixed rules, so I omit them; but, I repeat, it is necessary for a prince to have the people friendly, otherwise he has no security in adversity.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

A star stood large and white awest, Then Time uprose and testified; They push’d the mailed wood aside, They toss’d the forest like a toy, That great forgotten race of men, The boldest band that yet has been Together since the siege of Troy, And followed it and found their rest.
— from Blazing the Way; Or, True Stories, Songs and Sketches of Puget Sound by Emily Inez Denny

Gwendolen, frankly radiant as she tossed me these fragments, showed the elation of a prospect more assured than my own.
— from Embarrassments by Henry James

Somerset is situated at the foot of Boschberg mountain, one of the most picturesque towns in the colony; Bedford is built at the fort of Kagaberg, in a rich and valuable part of the country; Cradock, a town situated on the bank of the Great Fish river.
— from Twenty-Five Years in a Waggon in South Africa: Sport and Travel in South Africa by Andrew A. Anderson

Captain George Frederick Russell Colt.
— from Boswelliana: The Commonplace Book of James Boswell, with a Memoir and Annotations by James Boswell

I wonder how much time you get for reading now.
— from God's Green Country: A Novel of Canadian Rural Life by Ethel M. Chapman

But Mariana his mother, in transports of grief, ran to the monastery, crying out at the gates: "Faustus! restore to me my son; to the people, their governor: the church always protects widows; why then rob you me, a desolate widow, of my son?"
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

The carving is very fine and varied; some of the capitals retain the old stiff-leaf foliage, while in some the leaves grow freely round the bell in the Decorated manner.
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Wells A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Dearmer