This gentleman treated me with kindness, and desired I would let him know what place I came from last, and whither I was bound; which I did in a few words, but he thought I was raving, and that the dangers I underwent had disturbed my head; whereupon I took my black cattle and sheep out of my pocket, which, after great astonishment, clearly convinced him of my veracity.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

But the disease soon ran its course from "Kidby" to "Kidney," and then naturally to "Tidbits," where it was arrested by Clifford's authority and ultimately relapsed to "Kid."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Methought all his senses were lock'd in his eye, As jewels in crystal for some prince to buy; Who, tend'ring their own worth from where they were glass'd, Did point you to buy them, along as you pass'd.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Its chief food, however, is grass, which it crops like the common goose.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

The day is called Flowering Sunday, and its peculiar feature is strewing the graves of the dead with flowers.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone: and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

His immense capacity for enjoyment, like the breezes of spring, helped poetry to sprout.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

Note 82 ( return ) [ I cannot forbear remarking the resemblance between the siege and lake of Nice, with the operations of Hernan Cortez before Mexico.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Suppose, next, that the plaintiff sued in case for a tort.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Surely the hard-working individual can find plenty of scope for his energies without needing, let us say, to beat his wife.
— from Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir

But such is the character, effectiveness, and irresistible sweep of their organization, that it cannot fail to break down something; [176] and that something, we fear, will be the Federal Union.
— from Abolition a Sedition, by a Northern Man by Calvin Colton

Yet, even in such a sketch of Dante’s life as this tries to be, it is necessary to dwell on the turning-points of the narrative contained in the Vita Nuova ; the reader always remembering that on one side Dante says more than the fact that so he may glorify his love, and less on another that he may not fail in consideration for Beatrice.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

However that may be, I came fully prepared to do what I think right, and as nothing, not even the cause to which I am most attached, would induce me to become an assassin or to wink at cold-blooded murder, so, sir, nothing on earth will induce me to betray others to the death which I do not fear myself.
— from The King's Highway by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

The invitation came from Rodman, who had reasons for wishing to get his brother-in-law aside for a little quiet talk.
— from Demos by George Gissing

It came from the other side of the camp.
— from By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

the church—for instance a preacher such as Dr. Conrad Kling of Halle, who in the midst of trials and slanders was seeking to save the remnants of Catholicism, [1467] or a man like the historian Wolfgang Mayer, [1468] or the learned and sharp-witted Kilian Leib, Prior of Rebdorf, [1469] or one of the highly gifted women of that day, for instance, Charity Pirkheimer, the sister of the humanist and Superior of the struggling Poor Clares of Nuremberg [1470] —what would have been the impressions called forth by the building and the monument?
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

You see, I had devised a sort of double skin for it in parts, and I imagined that I could fill this with water and make the craft sink when I so desired, and then pump out the water when I wished to rise.”
— from The Boy Inventors' Diving Torpedo Boat by Richard Bonner

In calling for the girl in waiting, say, "Maid!"
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

[Pg 88] "I can feel," he said, "some destroying power at work within me; I am fighting against it, but it is too strong for me, and will conquer my efforts."
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas