Death is a dialogue between Death is like the insect Death sets a thing significant Delayed till she had ceased to know, Delight becomes pictorial Departed to the judgment, Did the harebell loose her girdle Doubt me, my dim companion!
— from Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete by Emily Dickinson

Maybe their wives have no social ambitions; maybe they've hit a sentence or two in a 'dangerous book' that pleased them; maybe they started on the treadmill as I did and were knocked off.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

He continued,— “Yes, I am deaf; but you shall talk to me by gestures, by signs.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

The colonies know, that administration is separated from the court, divided within itself, and detested by the nation.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

The friends and adversaries of the plan of the convention, if they agree in nothing else, concur at least in the value they set upon the trial by jury; or if there is any difference between them it consists in this: the former regard it as a valuable safeguard to liberty; the latter represent it as the very palladium of free government.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The vision of these poor unfortunate people sitting down in a dusty bazaar to let an ignorant charlatan thrust a dirty needle into their blind eyes has evoked the indignation of the English surgeon from the time of our first occupation of the country.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

{ 317} One's reaction on hearsay testimony is always determined by one's own experience.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

the upper side is a dark bluefish green which like the outer part of the wings is changable as it reflects different portions of light.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

To what an extent doctrines intrinsically fitted to make the deepest impression upon the mind may remain in it as dead beliefs, without being ever realised in the imagination, the feelings, or the understanding, is exemplified by the manner in which the majority of believers hold the doctrines of Christianity.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

It is also described by the worthy Francis Valentyn as a performance known and practised in his own day in India.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

To stand at a street corner for a moment is to see pass by the Indian woman, wrapped in her heavy blanket; the French habitant; Scotch, Irish and English residents; and emigrants of all social conditions, the “American” from the United States; officers of the British army in their different uniforms; Catholic priests in their robes; Sisters of Charity; crowds of neat-looking soldiers; and the burly policemen clad in a dark blue military uniform.
— from Montreal, 1535-1914. Vol. 2. Under British Rule, 1760-1914 by William H. (William Henry) Atherton

Owing to the prevalence in our neighborhood of some particular patronymics—Macdonald, Mackintosh, Mackenzie, and the rest—many individuals are distinguished by what is called in Ardmuirland a "by-name."
— from Up in Ardmuirland by Michael Barrett

There was no moving object to be seen in any direction: but she thought she heard a rustling in the shrubbery close by, and with some degree of fear, but more surprise, she retreated into the drawing-room as speedily as possible, closing the doors behind her.
— from Charles Tyrrell; or, The Bitter Blood. Volumes I and II by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Even now in country districts and amongst the uneducated one comes across such striking instances of superstitious belief and thraldom as suffice to enable us to faintly realise what it must have been when all alike were enwrapped in a dreadful bondage to unseen powers of evil far more intense than is now possible even to the few.
— from Myth-Land by F. Edward (Frederick Edward) Hulme

I am dogged by half the Secret Police of the Capital.
— from The Colonel of the Red Huzzars by John Reed Scott

The assassination of a royal guest was executed in the presence, and by the command, of the king's daughter, who had been provoked by some words of insult, and disappointed by his diminutive stature; and a tribute, the price of blood, was imposed on the Lombards, by his brother the king of the Heruli.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

This is all done between two and six in the afternoon, if such visits may be called social.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 2 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

The letter says "I am desired by the Home Secretary to say that Lilian Lenton was reported by the medical officer at Holloway Prison to be in a state of collapse and in imminent danger of death consequent upon her refusal to take food.
— from On the Art of Writing Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 by Arthur Quiller-Couch

So, on and ever on, Scarce knowing why I ran-- Enough for me to feel Earth beaten back behind my heels, And hear the loud air singing The blood-song in my ears: Till, stumbling headlong over An unseen, fallen branch, I rolled in a deep bed of withered leaves; And lay, full-length in shuddering ecstasy Of hot, tumultuous blood that rioted Through every throbbing vein.
— from Akra the Slave by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson