A hobgoblin in the image of Punch Costello, hipshot, crookbacked, hydrocephalic, prognathic with receding forehead and Ally Sloper nose, tumbles in somersaults through the gathering darkness.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

As she still stood looking fixedly at me, a twitching or throbbing, from which I could not dissociate the idea of pain, came into that cruel mark; and lifted up the corner of her lip as if with scorn, or with a pity that despised its object.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

'I have no intention of parting company, Jenny.'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

This independence of the judges is equally requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves, and which, though they speedily give place to better information, and more deliberate reflection, have a tendency, in the meantime, to occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

The ground being marshy on which the temple was to be built, he prepared a foundation for it of pounded charcoal, at the suggestion of Theodorus, a celebrated statuary of Samos.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

Upon that a large number of the former band of tchinovniks also became converted to paths of rectitude, and were allowed to re-enter the Service; but not by hook or by crook could Chichikov worm his way back, even though, incited thereto by sundry items of paper currency, the General’s first secretary and principal bear leader did all he could on our hero’s behalf.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Had I not suspected the intentions of P—— C——, their coming so early would have been very flattering to my vanity.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

A bad composition carries with it its own punishment, contempt and ridicule.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

I should join in the regret of Gibbon, if these books contain any historical information: if they are but a continuation of the controversies which fill the last books in our present copies, they may as well sleep their eternal sleep in MS.
— 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

"Pull it out, Phil," commanded Darby; "Mr. Keefe's bay."
— from The Scratch Pack by Dorothea Conyers

Bearing to each other even a stronger personal likeness than twins customarily possess, they were in other points curiously unlike.
— from A Round Dozen by Susan Coolidge

"Them 's Law in this country," he soliloquized as he slid the tested shell in one particular chamber and filled all the others.
— from The Coming of Cassidy—And the Others by Clarence Edward Mulford

A simple-minded transgressor, a transgressor from the impulse of passion, can, perhaps, be converted; a cunning and hardened one, never."
— from Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Berthold Auerbach

For some two hundred miles we skirted the eastern shore of Vancouver Island, lined to the water’s edge with hemlock, spruce, and cedar, through which occasionally bluish-white streaks of water came tumbling down the mountain-side, each adding its own particular charm to the scenery.
— from Trails and Tramps in Alaska and Newfoundland by William S. Thomas

Mary allows she was wrong about Mr. Claude BEING SELFISH; He was MOST useful and kind on the terrible thirtieth of April. Do not write here any more; we are starting directly for Florence: We should be off to-morrow, if only Papa could get horses; All have been seized everywhere for the use of this dreadful Mazzini P.S. Mary has seen thus far.—I am really so angry, Louisa,— Quite out of patience, my dearest!
— from Amours De Voyage by Arthur Hugh Clough

With a remarkable assiduity and perseverance he has devoted many years of his life, and much pecuniary means, in preparing a magnificent collection of their dresses, instruments, ornaments, portraits, &c. For ourselves, we anticipate one of the most original and curious works that has been issued from the press for many years, for Mr. Catlin has struck out a new path to fame and fortune, and while he leaves a memorial of the true Indian uncorrupted native character, he makes a lasting name for himself.
— from Adventures of the Ojibbeway and Ioway Indians in England, France, and Belgium; Vol. 1 (of 2) being Notes of Eight Years' Travels and Residence in Europe with his North American Indian Collection by George Catlin

A section through this part of the auditory apparatus ( Fig. 20 ) shows that its osseous portion consists of a tube wound two and a half times round a central bony axis, the modiolus .
— from Psychology: Briefer Course by William James

10., that Jonathan's real high priesthood lasted seven years more, these two seven years will make up fourteen years, which I suppose was Josephus's own number in this place, instead of the four in our present copies.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

The stanzas employed in our poetry cannot consist of less than three, and are seldom of more than twelve verses, except in Pindaric odes, where the stanzas are different from one another in number of verses, as shall be shown.
— from Practical Guide to English Versification With a Compendious Dictionary of Rhymes, an Examination of Classical Measures, and Comments Upon Burlesque and Comic Verse, Vers de Société, and Song-writing by Tom Hood