On the generality of intercrosses between individuals of the same species.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

"Do you know," she exclaimed after a long pause, "I believe I'll call up Lawrence on the telephone and tell him he simply MUST come?" "Oh, don't," said Lily, with a quick suffusion of colour.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

What happened was quite innocent, but it might be so garbled in the telling as to become prejudicial to the honour of a lady whose beauty struck me with admiration.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I had an undefined impression that it might have been better if we had had some other inmate, but I could hardly have explained why even to myself.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

SYN: Steep, soak, water, instil, infiltrate, insinuate, breathe into, introduce, inspire, impart.
— from A Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms or, Synonyms and Words of Opposite Meaning by Samuel Fallows

“You dear innocent boy, if I could trust you, I would teach you a secret that this dear thing would greatly enjoy.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

“Ay,” answered Isaac, “but if the tyrant lays hold on them as he did to-day, and compels me to smile while he is robbing me?—O, daughter, disinherited and wandering as we are, the worst evil which befalls our race is, that when we are wronged and plundered, all the world laughs around, and we are compelled to suppress our sense of injury, and to smile tamely, when we would revenge bravely.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

I abstain from it, because I deem it just to do so.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

We see, likewise, the Scripture calleth envy an evil eye; 111 and the astrologers call the evil influences of 88 the stars evil aspects; so that still there seemeth to be acknowledged, in the act of envy, an ejaculation, or irradiation of the eye; nay, some have been so curious as to note that the times, when the stroke or percussion of an envious eye doth most hurt, are, when the party envied is beheld in glory or triumph, for that sets an edge upon envy; and besides, at such times, the spirits of the person envied do come forth most into the outward parts, and so meet the blow.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

And then long ago I read an old book written by Cornelius Agrippa about [Pg 245] it, but I was not very much interested, and did not understand nor believe it at the time, so my memory is not worth much concerning it."
— from The Right Knock A Story by Helen Van-Anderson

30 Sorcery began early in India; but it is in connection with this system that it attains to full development.
— from Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by J. Murray (John Murray) Mitchell

“It is a part of religion,” you will say, “but only its unorganized rudiment; if we are to name it by itself, we had better call it man's conscience or morality than his religion.
— from The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James

Anyhow, if there is a war, I bet I am [7] going to be Johnny on the Spot.
— from Molly Brown of Kentucky by Nell Speed

And some haven’t the tiny perforation—these I burn in with a red-hot hatpin so that each shell may be threaded on a strong length of Japanese cord.
— from The Woodcraft Girls in the City by Lillian Elizabeth Roy

"I put thirteen hundred and fifty dollars into it, but I took out twenty to pay the bill that Laud brought.
— from The Yacht Club; or, The Young Boat-Builder by Oliver Optic

He then repeated, what I believe I have mentioned before, that it had been his intention to cause the history of the last reigns of our kings to be written from the original documents in the archives of our Foreign Office.
— from Memoirs of the life, exile, and conversations of the Emperor Napoleon. (Vol. III) by Las Cases, Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné, comte de

Monsieur, my memory is better, I do not forget, I never shall."
— from The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Richard Clynton

The death rate in Bombay is very large.
— from Modern India by William Eleroy Curtis

Slowly, inch by inch, they righted the ship, bringing her stubborn prow gradually into the wind; and all the while the engines throbbed, all the while the grimy stokers shovelled coal into the furnaces, all the while the engineers stood and watched their engines.
— from The Grey Lady by Henry Seton Merriman