I answered, with a gesture of utter disbelief.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Never yet has it been our fortune to fall in with any man of genius whose conclusions did not correspond better with his premises, and not worse, than those of other men; whose genius, once understood, did not manifest itself in a deeper, fuller, truer view of all things human and divine, than the clearest of your so-called laudable "practical men" had claim to.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But not in those far times Would one lone day give over unto doom
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Note 88 ( return ) [ Of the general mass of wealth, Gunther observes, ut de pauperibus et advenis cives ditissimi redderentur, (Hist.
— 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

The woman gave a groan of utter despair, and sat down on a board.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Go on, Uncle dear,” Natásha wailed in an imploring tone as if her life depended on it.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Four editions were printed— William Griffith 1566 William Griffith 1567 TN: repeated "William Griffith"; original used dots to indicated repeated name William Griffith 1567 Henry Middleton, 1573 TN: extraneous comma retained
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

Like a bitterly angry croaking ran the sound through the long corridors when the leaves of the gate opened: ungraciously did this bird cry, unwillingly was it awakened.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Pisa at this time was under the government of Uguccione della Faggiuola of Arezzo, whom the Pisans had chosen as their captain, but who had made himself their lord.
— from Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition by Edward Hutton

[pg 199] in good order ... under Dungeness to be their principal station....
— from Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Julian Stafford Corbett

The phenomena of mind are, accordingly, in the general technical language of the science, referred by us to many powers, which I cannot but think, are not so different as to furnish ground of ultimate distinction, but are truly only varieties of a few more simple powers or susceptibilities.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

Fourteen months after the death of Linnæus, he was appointed director of the botanic garden of Upsal during the absence of the son of that renowned professor.
— from Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by William MacGillivray

You better git out uf dat, 'cause dey ain't room out dar for a muskeeter.
— from The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various

In other cases, particularly where deep, larger blood-vessels may be severed, and if they be of any considerable size, the hemorrhage will not cease until the subject becomes exceedingly weak, and in some instances the bleeding will go on until death results.
— from Health on the Farm: A Manual of Rural Sanitation and Hygiene by H. F. (Henry Fauntleroy) Harris

This wondrous allegation is no novelty; it has not unfrequently reached me from that region where gentle (or ungentle) dulness so often holds unchecked sway—the pulpit.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley

There were bodies everywhere, slashed hideously with bolo-cuts; and beside the post in the plaza, where they had done him to death, in the hope of making him confess how he had hidden the wealth he did not possess, was all that remained of the Spanish merchant himself; seeing which, the corporal swore great oaths, unconsciously drew his hand across his eyes—curious how dim they were growing!—then, like a good Catholic, knelt down and prayed for the soul of the man he had never seen in life; and after that he donned the parade uniform he had brought in case of emergency, buckled on his sabre, and carried out the funeral of his fellow-countryman.
— from The Law of the Bolo by Stanley Portal Hyatt

From the first there was something dreamlike, unreal, about that southward flight; in the long sail across Hebrid seas, calm as glass until the south headlands of Mull were passed, and then storm-swept; in the rapid [Pg 271] journey across Scotland and through England; and in the recrossing of that narrow sea which had once seemed to them a gulf of ultimate division.
— from Green Fire: A Romance by William Sharp