G., in my opinion, had done his part.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

Dr. Piderit published in 1859 an essay on Expression, which I have not seen, but in which, as he states, he forestalled Gratiolet in many of his views.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

To make him every shirt of his were taken up nine hundred ells of Chasteleraud linen, and two hundred for the gussets, in manner of cushions, which they put under his armpits.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Besides, there is no encouragement for ghosts in most of our villages, for they have scarcely had time to finish their first nap and turn themselves in their graves, before their surviving friends have travelled away from the neighborhood; so that when they turn out at night to walk their rounds, they have no acquaintance left to call upon.
— from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

After assuming the manly habit, he spent his youth, and the rest of his life until he succeeded to the government, in the following manner: he gave the people an entertainment of gladiators, in memory of his father, and another for his grandfather Drusus, at different times and in different places: the first in the forum, the second in the amphitheatre; some gladiators who had been honourably discharged, being induced to engage again, by a reward of a hundred thousand sesterces.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

We are the miracle of miracles,—the great inscrutable mystery of God.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

I cried, and gloried in my own audacity.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

The river was already hidden under a skin of gleaming ice, made opaque by the snow that had mingled with the water while it was freezing.
— from Brothers of Peril: A Story of old Newfoundland by Theodore Goodridge Roberts

If I am for this reason prevented from publishing it, I am not thereby hindered from giving it my own private assent.
— from The Freedom of Science by Josef Donat

He begged my pardon, but I wouldn't make up, out of pure ill-temper, and now he again grew anxious about what account he could give of his whereabouts during this time, till I said to him: 'As you have Brownlock under you, sir, you can just as well ride across the bog, and then you will get to Neuenhof as soon as if you had ridden away from Dollan directly after the gentlemen: I mean, of course, over the road.'
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

Or is there any movement of the life of God in me, of quickening and refreshing life, of generous activity and transmissive vitality?
— from Mornings in the College Chapel Short Addresses to Young Men on Personal Religion by Francis Greenwood Peabody

And now, General, I must offer you my most sincere apologies for having occupied so much of your valuable time, and tender you my warmest thanks for the great patience and courtesy with which you have listened to what I have had to say.
— from The Cruise of the Thetis: A Tale of the Cuban Insurrection by Harry Collingwood

Our artisans have fled, the commerce of the place is ruined, grass is growing in many of our streets, springing up from the blood of the citizens shed on them.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

"My husband gave it me only to-day."
— from The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

In all this she was only acting a part prompted by myself, for I was most anxious not only to have De Grandvit into my own arse, but was longing to be into his great, coarse, hairy, corrugated deep-brown arsehole.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Now it appears from this that Proclus, in the fifth century A.D. , thought that Pythagoras discovered the proposition in the sixth century B.C. , that the usual proof, as given in most of our [Pg 259] American textbooks, was due to Euclid, and that the generalized form was also due to the latter.
— from The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith