It was not that he understood, but he felt clearly with all the intensity of sensation that he could never more appeal to these people in the police-office with sentimental effusions like his recent outburst, or with anything whatever; and that if they had been his own brothers and sisters and not police-officers, it would have been utterly out of the question to appeal to them in any circumstance of life.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It cannot be wondered at that his mind, generally so courageous, but now disturbed by the two strongest human passions, love and fear, was weakened even to the indulgence of superstitious thoughts.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I got myself discharged of the dangerous office I was in as soon as I could get another admitted, whom I had obtained for a little money to accept of it; and so, instead of serving the two months, which was directed, I was not above three weeks in it; and a great while too, considering it was in the month of August, at which time the distemper began to rage with great violence at our end of the town.
— from A Journal of the Plague Year Written by a Citizen Who Continued All the While in London by Daniel Defoe

Of this kind are the duties, which, in French, are called peages, which in old Saxon times were called the duties of passage, and which seem to have been originally established for the same purpose as our turnpike tolls, or the tolls upon our canals and navigable rivers, for the maintenance of the road or of the navigation.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

When the others arrived at the willow trees, where the confectioner had put up his stall, they said: "Now we are out here; the bell does not in reality exist—it is only something that people imagine!"
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) —————————————————— A kind of indexed online search tool to locate items based on what they contain - usually keyword text searches.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

He was too astonished at their strangeness, too full, indeed, of strangeness, to be seriously alarmed by them.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

; or he Who has sail'd where picturesque Constantinople is, Or seen Timbuctoo, or hath taken tea
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

One of their most warlike tribes, established in a small island towards the conflux of the Teyss and the Danube, consented to pass the river with the intention of surprising the emperor during the security of an amicable conference.
— 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

These letters to his sister are, in one sense, the least remarkable in the collection, yet it would lose much by their omission.
— from Oxford Lectures on Poetry by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Accordingly, they have grown more and more exacting, till at length the hack politicians of the Free States have become so imbued with the notion of yielding, and so incapable of believing in any principle of action higher than temporary expedients to carry an election, or any object nobler than the mere possession of office for its own sake, that Mr. Buchanan gravely proposes that the Republican party should pacify South Carolina by surrendering the very creed that called it into existence and holds it together, the only fruit of its victory that made victory worth having.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I am here in consequence of a mistake in orders sent to me by Lord Palmerston, to join the army in Portugal, when his lordship meant Jamaica.
— from The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock, K.B. Interspersed with notices of the celebrated Indian chief, Tecumseh, and comprising brief memoirs of Daniel De Lisle Brock, Esq., Lieutenant E.W. Tupper, R.N., and Colonel W. De Vic Tupper by Brock, Isaac, Sir

Their friends plague themselves to find new openings for them; but without any gross offence, such as drunkenness or dishonesty, they persistently fall out of them; there is something about them which seems to render them incapable of sticking to their post.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistles to the Thessalonians by James Denney

There is somebody up in old Scotland that I think I'll fetch down for the comfort o' Stephen—as bonny a woman as a man need want, wi' enough siller laid up from her old daddy to make a soldier a gentleman.
— from Lords and Lovers, and Other Dramas by Olive Tilford Dargan

“Let’s drive the foreign devils off the islands or slay them all.
— from The Woman with a Stone Heart A Romance of the Philippine War by O. W. (Oscar William) Coursey

I believe I am right when I say that the reason for the decision, some twenty years ago, to leave the church where it is, instead of selling the property and building in the West End, was that it might minister to the poor in the neighbourhood, to bring religion and hope into their lives, and to exert its influence towards eradicating the vice and misery which surround it."
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

It often seemed to that keen and practical sense which in her mingled so oddly with the capacity for passion that, as they grew older, and her mind recovered tone and balance, she would probably love the world disastrously more and he disastrously less.
— from Lady Rose's Daughter by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

At the bottom of the Luzon Deep the pressure is over seven tons to the square inch.
— from Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster

As for external Medicaments, when the Burn is only superficial, take Onions and unslack'd Lime, quench'd in a Decoction of Rapes, and apply this Liquor very hot, with double Bolsters dipt therein.
— from The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by M. (Charles Gabriel) Le Clerc