At present I am going in my mind from point to point as a mad man, and not a sane one, follows an idea.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

And yet this gipsy information makes me fearful.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

I stept into the library, while he was thus pouring out his kindness for me to Mrs. Jervis; and blessed God there on my knees, for the difference I now found to what I had once known in it.—And when I have done the same in the first scene of my fears, the once frightful summer-house, I shall have gone through most of my distressful scenes with gratitude; but shall never forbear thanking God in my mind, for his goodness to me in every one.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

"If I kept that little girl in my mind for five years, didn't I earn some part in her?
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

This alms-giving did me good; it made me forget my losses, and I spent a delightful evening with the marchioness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I want to tell you how good it makes me feel to see so many bright, clean little faces assembled in a place like this, learning to do right and be good.”
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

who this good banquet grace; 'Tis sweet to play the fool in time and place, And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile, The grave in merry measures frisk about, And many a long-repented word bring out.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

In connection with the temple at Guruvayūr in Malabar, Mr Fawcett writes as follows 40 :— “I visited the festival on one occasion, and purchase was made of a few offerings such as are made to the temple in satisfaction of vows—a very rude representation of an infant in silver, a hand, a leg, an ulcer, a pair of eyes, and, most curious of all, a silver string which represents a man, the giver.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

Saving your presence, gentlemen, it made me feel all-overish like.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

‘When I was little,’ a lover of Wordsworth once said, ‘I could hardly bear to read Lucy Gray , it made me feel so lonely.’
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

One of the editors sagely suggested that "if judge and jury are to carry on this war on the press to gratify individual malignity much further, it would be well for all editors to unite in petitioning the legislature to pass a law that judges should discharge their duties impartially, and juries be composed of honest and intelligent men."
— from James Fenimore Cooper American Men of Letters by Thomas Raynesford Lounsbury

"I guess it makes me feel at home.
— from Swords Reluctant by Max Pemberton

It has been mentioned that the island of Gozo is much more fertile than Malta proper, though why
— from The Story of Malta by Maturin Murray Ballou

One day, as he was gazing in melancholy mood from his window, his pockets at their lowest ebb, he saw a sailor staring about in the college courts.
— from Swift by Leslie Stephen

Outside the gate I met my fellow-student, and we went on together.
— from A Bird-Lover in the West by Olive Thorne Miller

For these reasons, Keller in this Legendary, most wisely restricted in number, and grouped in most masterly fashion, has surpassed all those who have ventured on to the same enticing ground since him.
— from Seven Legends by Gottfried Keller

And when I think of those fire-escapes, and the boarder's grandchild, it makes me feel very unpleasantly.”
— from Rudder Grange by Frank Richard Stockton

The proud motley race of Spaniards, Italians, Gauls, indigenous mountaineers, Moors from Africa, the remnants of the Carthaginian colonies, however they might hate one another, yet united in resenting an uncertain servitude under the alternate ascendency of Roman factions.
— from Caesar: A Sketch by James Anthony Froude