Raskolnikov turned round quickly and fixed his eyes on Razumihin.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It being late in the season, and no hope entertained of rounding these obstructions, Captain Cook now reluctantly turned to the northward.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

“From what I have already observed,” said Ellison, “you will understand that I reject the idea, here expressed, of recalling the original beauty of the country.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics , article on Manicheism.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

I had now had enough of rambling to sea for some time, and had enough to do for many days to sit still and reflect upon the danger I had been in.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Socrates himself has given the right clue when, in using his own discourse afterwards as the text for his examination of rhetoric, he characterizes it as a 'partly true and tolerably credible mythus,' in which amid poetical figures, order and arrangement were not forgotten.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation.
— from The Communist Manifesto by Friedrich Engels

And this is what happened: every one was amazed and horrified, every one refused to believe it and thought that he was deranged, though all listened with intense curiosity.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“You heard probably of the heroic exploit of Raévski, embracing his two sons and saying: ‘I will perish with them but we will not be shaken!’
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

After having examined other religions in the light of science, it occurred to some of our theologians to examine their own doctrine in the same way, and the result has been exactly the same in both cases.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

He do still continue his expressions of respect and love to me, and tells me my brother John will make a good scholar.
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1661 N.S. by Samuel Pepys

I have, etc., Odo Russell .
— from The Letters of Queen Victoria : A Selection from Her Majesty's Correspondence between the Years 1837 and 1861 Volume 3, 1854-1861 by Queen of Great Britain Victoria

I've had enough of roads and ways.”
— from The War in the Air by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Have Edna or Ruby seen you wearing this thing?"
— from In Brief Authority by F. Anstey

I have had enough of ruined towns, and was not able to get the awful sights out of my head all night, but spent my time in bad dreams.
— from A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium by Hugh Gibson

If water insinuates itself between the strata, it creates a sliding surface, or it may, by its expansion in freezing, separate beds of rock, which had been nearly continuous before, widely enough to allow the gravitation of the superincumbent mass to overcome the resistance afforded by inequalities of face and by friction; if it finds its way beneath hard earth or rock reposing on clay or other bedding of similar properties, it converts the supporting layer into a semi-fluid mud, which opposes no obstacle to the sliding of the strata above.
— from The Earth as Modified by Human Action by George P. (George Perkins) Marsh

But Ruth was determined that the haughty little schoolmistress should have her eyes opened regarding Bashful Ike before the evening was over, and she proceeded to put into execution a plan she had already conceived on the way over from Silver Ranch.
— from Ruth Fielding at Silver Ranch; Or, Schoolgirls Among the Cowboys by Alice B. Emerson

You see, we've had experience of rich young men whose hearts beat for the wrongs of the working class—and that experience has not been fortunate.
— from The Conflict by David Graham Phillips

His time was now filled with an editorial task which would demand all his energies, or rather a large part of them; but editorial work, however interesting in itself—and the interest of his particular work was great—left one part of the mind unsatisfied; that part of the mind which desired to create some beautiful thing.
— from Beside Still Waters by Arthur Christopher Benson