And so, like snowbreak from the mountains, for every staircase is a melted brook, it storms; tumultuous, wild-shrilling, towards the Hotel-de-Ville.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Elliott says that these remarks are incorrect and malevolent; but I say they pay him off for his last letter about my eating manners!
— from My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt by Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

I don't know, possibly I am mistaken, but it seems to me that I have known people ready for large sacrifices, who yet would shrink painfully from these little ones.
— from Ester Ried Yet Speaking by Pansy

The cavalry which dissolves into a mob before it strikes the enemy but seldom attains success; and infantry out of hand is hardly more effective.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

Great, then, was my surprise when, as I approached my bench, I saw that he was already there.
— from Round the Red Lamp: Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life by Arthur Conan Doyle

Where they come from is a mystery, but I suspect that there is a 78 system of interchange between these men, and that they sell for one another and settle up afterwards.
— from Forged Egyptian Antiquities by T. G. Wakeling

Then shall I not demean the Temple into a market, but I shall transform the market into a temple.
— from My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year by John Henry Jowett

The Brothers It is very possible that I am mistaken, but it seems to me that an astonishing number of people die this year.
— from From a Swedish Homestead by Selma Lagerlöf

The Introduction to the Second Edition is only calculated to load us with still more Stuff of the same Kind as the former; You would do well, Sir, before you so confidently affirm the Gentleman who hath given his Opinion upon the Objections that have been offered to be a Person of distinguish'd Taste and Abilities , either to have let us known who he was, or some of his former Works, which might have convinced us of those Abilities , for I think the long Harangue prefix'd to Pamela will never be deem'd a sufficient Proof thereof——The Gentleman himself acknowledges that when it has dwelt all Day long upon the Ear, it takes Possession all night of the Fancy ; That is, I suppose, it contributes to make his Dreams something pleasanter than usual; and I am sorry if I am mistaken, but it seems to me, that he wrote his Dissertation half awake and half asleep, just as he
— from Pamela Censured by Anonymous