7. and Arculanus in 9 Rhasis, that melancholy is a sole cause, and the devil together, with fasting and solitariness, of such sibylline prophecies, if there were ever such, which with [6466] Casaubon and others I justly except at; for it is not likely that the Spirit of God should ever reveal such manifest revelations and predictions of Christ, to those Pythonissae witches, Apollo's priests, the devil's ministers, (they were no better) and conceal them from his own prophets; for these sibyls set down all particular circumstances of Christ's coming, and many other future accidents far more perspicuous and plain than ever any prophet did.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

When I wander, her gentler spirit ever restores me, and keeps before my eyes the Christian calling and mission of our race.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

They are what is known as a necessary evil.” Greatly surprised, Elias raised his head and looked at him in astonishment.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

For whence had that former grief so easily reached my very inmost soul, but that I had poured out my soul upon the dust, in loving one that must die, as if he would never die?
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

When a driver boasts of his skill and bravery the other drivers say, “And when didst thou see the elephants dance?” Kala Nag put Little Toomai down, and he bowed to the earth again and went away with his father, and gave the silver four-anna piece to his mother, who was nursing his baby brother, and they all were put up on Kala Nag’s back, and the line of grunting, squealing elephants rolled down the hill path to the plains.
— from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

“Aye, faix, dancing 'The little bould fox;' and may I never die in sin, if he hasn't a step that looks for all the world as if he made a hook and eye of his legs.” The young man who spoke these words was in mould and gesture the very ideal of an Irish peasant of the west; somewhat above the middle size, rather slightly made, but with the light and neatly turned proportion that betokens activity, more than great strength, endurance, rather than the power of any single effort.
— from St. Patrick's Eve by Charles James Lever

Those who came 98 to know this fragment were so much pleased with it, and M. de Talleyrand was so much amused by writing it, that he formed the idea of grouping subsequent events round another person whom he had known very well.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1831-1835 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

It was at the latter place that the great St. Ethelreda received her monastic training.
— from A Calendar of Scottish Saints by Michael Barrett

Haven't you got somethin' else right on the tip of your tongue?"
— from The Untamed by Max Brand

[Pg 48] Isabella, as time showed, was a woman of strong character and deep feeling, but she never seemed to have acquired any influence over her feeble husband, and found herself powerless to arouse him to any sense of his position, " La dicte fille " says Commines, " etoit fort courageuse et eut volontier donné crédit à son mary, si elle eut pu, mais il n'etoit guère saige et révélait ce qu'elle lui disait .
— from Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan, 1475-1497 by Julia Cartwright