"Thus have I revisited in sleep every place I have ever lived in, and especially this, the beloved spot where I first as a little girl knew you !"
— from Peter Ibbetson by George Du Maurier

Hence it follows that evil is not the true nature of [143] anything, and that evil must have its rise in something external to the true nature of things.
— from The Hidden Power, and Other Papers upon Mental Science by T. (Thomas) Troward

"That is true," the young man said, with a laugh; "but take care, Chief, I have become uncommonly fastidious since I have been in the prairie; there is hardly any game I have not hunted, as it was the love of sport alone that brought me into these unknown countries; hence, I repeat, I shall expect choice game."
— from The Prairie Flower: A Tale of the Indian Border by Gustave Aimard

The form of Stevens had insensibly risen in seeming elevation as he spoke, and the expression of his face was that of a more human pride.
— from Charlemont; Or, The Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky by William Gilmore Simms

Three-inch headlines in red ink screamed, exulted, and shrieked out the news that the Gray Seal, in the person of Stace Morse, fence, yeggman and murderer, had been captured.
— from The Adventures of Jimmie Dale by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard

ooth, satisfied-looking personage he is represented in some engravings of him (which makes his heartrending romance appear unaccountable and 59 cruel), has a face as uneasy as can well be conceived—flushed and shattered with emotion.
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt

The savage practice must have its roots in some equally crude and savage theory.
— from Plutarch's Romane Questions With dissertations on Italian cults, myths, taboos, man-worship, aryan marriage, sympathetic magic and the eating of beans by Plutarch