Raffles on his side had not the same eagerness for a collision which was implied in Ladislaw's threatening air.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Gregor's father staggered back to his seat, feeling his way with his hands, and fell into it; it looked as if he was stretching himself out for his usual evening nap but from the uncontrolled way his head kept nodding it could be seen that he was not sleeping at all.
— from Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

But it is likewise clear that, if the evidence on both sides is equal, it is impossible to discover on what side the truth lies; and the controversy continues, although the parties have been recommended to peace before the tribunal of reason.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Next is Ivie lane, so called of ivy growing on the walls of the prebend
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

It seemed to me that some accident—say the loss of a memorandum indicating its locality—had deprived him of the means of recovering it, and that this accident had become known to his followers, who otherwise might never have heard that treasure had been concealed at all, and who, busying themselves in vain, because unguided attempts, to regain it, had given first birth, and then universal currency, to the reports which are now so common.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

“There having been nothing in it, last year, but the doors of the rooms (to everyone of which I can swear, if necessary), my mind is easy, I admit, respecting that part of the house only.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

the Small fish which fell on those willows was washed on the Willows where they untill taken off &c. I cought or took off those willows 9 Small trout from 3 to 7 Inches in length.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But the truth is, I let the trap-door fall: your immediate arrival followed.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

For there the soul is highest, noblest, and worthiest, [Pg 148] where it is lowest, meekest, and mildest: and [out] of this Substantial Ground we have all our virtues in our Sense-part by gift of Nature, by helping and speeding of Mercy and Grace: without the which we may not profit.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

“I love my house, my town and my province because I discover in them the customs of my own village; but if I love my country, if I become angry when a neighbor sets foot in it, it is because I feel that my home is in danger, because the frontier that I do not know is the high road to my province.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In this room is a slab with a bilingual inscription, in Latin and Umbrian, from Todi.
— from Walks in Rome by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

It is like the parasite plant which is not naturally rooted in the earth, but entwines itself about the growing beauty of other plant-life, only to suck out the life-currents from the stem which has lifted it out of the dirt into the sunlight, in return for which its only charity is that it spreads its stolen verdure over the death which it has itself created.
— from What a Young Husband Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall

With these for our text let us now take a rapid glance at what some of the more Bunyan-like passages in the prophets and the psalms say about the ear; how it is kept and how it is lost; how it is used and how it is abused.
— from Bunyan Characters (3rd Series) by Alexander Whyte

In giving this advice, I do not mean to be offensive to the great body of wine growers in California, which numbers in its list a great many able, careful, and sober men, who are doing, as they have done, much and worthily for the prosperity of the State and for the production of good wine, and whose skill and enterprise are honorable to them.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

The style of the work is late Venetian Gothic, influenced in its later portions by the Renaissance revival.
— from A History of Architecture in all Countries, Volume 1, 3rd ed. From the Earliest Times to the Present Day by James Fergusson

“Which I will, sir, and if I lose my place, and you do happen to want a good plain—” “Cook, Cook, pray speak out,” cried Mrs Doctor.
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn

Lady Macleod lived at No. 3, Paramount Crescent, in Cheltenham, where she occupied a very handsome first-floor drawing-room, with a bedroom behind it, looking over a stable-yard, and a small room which would have been the dressing-room had the late Sir Archibald been alive, but which was at present called the dining-room: and in it Lady Macleod did dine whenever her larger room was to be used for any purposes of evening company.
— from Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope

In a Protestant scholasticism this glorious Gospel has again been lost oftener than once; it is lost when "a learned ministry" deals with the New Testament writings as the scribes dealt with the Old; [Pg 126] it is lost also—for extremes meet—when an unlearned piety swears by verbal, even by literal, inspiration, and takes up to mere documents an attitude which in principle is fatal to Christianity.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Second Epistle to the Corinthians by James Denney

But if I like I can go of my own self," she added mysteriously.
— from Hoodie by Mrs. Molesworth

Before every house hung a sign, on which was painted the figure by which the house was known: some of these signs may still be seen: there is one in Holywell Street: one in Ivy Lane: and there are many old Inns which still keep their ancient signs.
— from The History of London by Walter Besant