Blood was flowing from his head; he struggled but could not rise.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

One must constantly remember not to believe a syllable that Iago utters on any subject, including himself, until one has tested his statement by comparing it with known facts and with other statements of his own or of other people, and by considering whether he had in the particular circumstances any reason for telling a lie or for telling the truth.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

These two states of a nation have sometimes been contemporaneous: the last generation in France showed how a people might organize a stupendous tyranny in the community, at the very time when they were baffling the authority of the nobility and braving the power of all kings—at once teaching the world the way to win freedom, and the way to lose it.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In order to calm her apprehensions, Victor Hugo had only to reveal to her his secret plans; from the first moment that he mentioned the Pairie to her, she became complacent and Orléaniste.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

There was also an act made in the days of Darius, that whoso for some time called upon any god but him should be cast into the lions' den.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

100 “As, then (if what I have heard is credible), the cages 84 in which those pigmies commonly called dwarfs are reared not only stop the growth of the imprisoned creature, but absolutely make him smaller by compressing every part of his body, so all despotism, however equitable, may be defined as a cage of the soul and a general prison.”
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

This is not mere Gentile insistence that he shall be considered a Jew whether or no; it is straight Jewish teaching that he is.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

And Ona, too, had given her health and strength to pay for it—she was wrecked and ruined because of it; and so was he, who had been a big, strong man three years ago, and now sat here shivering, broken, cowed, weeping like a hysterical child.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

Young Hunters Series, By CAPTAIN RALPH BONEHILL.
— from Young Auctioneers; Or, The Polishing of a Rolling Stone by Edward Stratemeyer

Therefore, the man in the above case cannot with a good conscience live in marriage with the second woman, and this hindrance should be completely overthrown.
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume II) by Martin Luther

| | Consider: why did Bacon conclude that his | New Logic Machine would produce | scientific knowledge in the form of | aphorisms and apothegms—not linear | time-sequence predictions? | | To summarize the above:: Most | contemporary interpreters of Bacon | evaluate his science by comparison with | Newtonian mechanics.
— from Valerius Terminus: Of the Interpretation of Nature by Francis Bacon

It used to bristle with branching corals like stag-horns and was strewn with tens of thousands of more delicate varieties, car-loads of which have since been carried away; but enough remain to 8 show that all this country was uplifted by continental forces from a primeval sea.
— from Hovey's Handbook of the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky A Practical Guide to the Regulation Routes by Horace Carver Hovey

General W. H. L. Wallace was temporarily in command of Smith's division, General Smith, as I have said, being confined to his bed.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

“She don’t know, she don’t realize—Sir,” cried he, suddenly becoming conscious of my presence in the room, “will you be good enough to see that this note,” he hastily scribbled one, “is carried across the way to my house and given to Mrs. Daniels.”
— from A Strange Disappearance by Anna Katharine Green

He must have some better clothes than these old ones of ours, if he is to be sent messages.
— from The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat