I stayed in bed until 8.30, although I woke up at seven o’clock; but I just rolled lazily about, thinking of you, and reading yesterday’s newspapers.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I think you should rather say, it shows itself by inclining the soul to hate its sin.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

I said, infected by her childish laughter.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And indeed,’ said I, ‘better to suffer torments in this world at the hands of your lawful master than to gnash your teeth at the dread Seat of Judgment.’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Its spell is broken, and the great bubble bursts.
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

But I had slipped one out, for fun, when the count began, and now I slipped it back and said, 'I think there is a mistake—there are eleven hundred and seven; let us count again.'
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

“Here!” said Mr Verloc, giving a slight kick to the gladstone bag on the floor; and Stevie flung himself upon it, seized it, bore it off with triumphant devotion.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

She told me these simple adventures in such a manner, that in my mind they assumed the proportions of never-to-be -forgotten dramas, of grand and mysterious poems; and the ingenious stories invented by the poets which my mother told me in the evening, had none of the flavor, none of the breadth or vigor of the peasant woman's narratives.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

“Yes, I saw it by the side-lights when I was stepping into the carriage.
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

ever gay with smiles, Meet prelude to the harmonies of night; As birds beneath the wing enfold their head, Nestled in prayer the infant seeks its bed.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Through Finland in Carts , 108 Times, The , 106 Tittoni, 331 Tolstoi, 59 Toronto, 247 Torop, Sophus, 49 Tower of London, 97 Trafford, George, 114 Tree, Sir Herbert, 27 , 70 , 93 , 149 — Lady, 27 , 78 , 79 — Viola, 27 Treloar, Sir William, 119 Trübner, Nicholas (publisher), 30 Turner, 120 Twain, Mark, 239 Tweedie, Alec, 29 , 37 Tweedie, Ethel (fishing boat), 186 Tweedie, Mrs. Alec, 21 , 54 , 82 , 92 , 104 , 114 , 131 , 138 , 175 , 180 , 216 , 232 , 280 , 294 , 295 , 304 , 322 , 325 — Dr. Alexander, F.R.S. , 39 — Sir John, 122 Twining, Louisa, 78 Two Orphans, The , 233 Tyndall, 19 U 367 Ulysses , 155 , 264 United States, 124 , 206 , 224 University, London, 149 — College Hospital, 261 V Vaughan, 49 Vauxhall (People’s Palace), 214 Vedrenne and Barker, 203 Velasquez, 156 , 157 “Volumnia,” 200 W Waldorf Theatre, The, 232 Wales, Prince of (Albert Edward), 146 , 177 — — George (now George V), 284 — Princess of (now Queen Mary), 284 Walter, John (see The Times ), 106 War, Crimean, 150 — Transvaal, 117 Ward, Miss Geneviève, 161 , 199 , 202 , 310 — Mrs. Humphry, 88 , 262 , 304 Warsaw, 201 Washington, 125 , 173 , 229 , 231 Watts, R.A. , 85 , 120 , 174 Wedderburn, Sir William, 289 Welby, Miss, 295 Wellington, 67 West Indies, 150 Weston, Miss Jessie, 295 Whistler, James McNeill, 168 , 170 , 173 , 175 — Mme., 172 Whitehall, 165 , 283 White House, 224 Whiteing, Richard (Prologue, 6 ) White Star Line, 291 Wicked World , 151 Wier, Colonel John, 232 Wiggin, K. D., 239 Wilde, Mrs. (Miss A. M. Clay), 295 William III, 284 Wilton, Q.C. , 108 Wimbledon, 58 Winchilsea, Earl of, 214 Winchester, Marquis of, 287 Windsor, 166 Winter Jaunt to Norway, A , 108 Wirgman, Blake, 146 Wolseley, General, 243 Woodhall Spa, 54 , 227 X Xochicalco, 130 Y Yorkshire Post (see Phillips ), 105 Z Zansig, Mme., 216 Zimmern, Miss A., 295 Zion City, 236 Mexico as I Saw It By MRS.
— from Thirteen Years of a Busy Woman's Life by Mrs. (Ethel) Alec-Tweedie

The leaf in Unyamwezi generally is soft and perishable, that of Usukuma being the worst; it is sold in blunt cones, so shaped by the mortars in which they are pounded.
— from Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce by E. R. Billings

“Oh, some kind of teak I should imagine, but pretty rotten by the look of it.
— from Round the Fire Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle

The parable of the Good Samaritan was spoken to a certain lawyer who, trusting to his knowledge of the Old Testament, and of its subtle interpretations by the rabbis, came to Jesus hoping to dispute with him and to defeat him in debate.
— from The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman

“I suspected it, but I wasn’t sure,” Penny replied.
— from Hoofbeats on the Turnpike by Mildred A. (Mildred Augustine) Wirt

We have seen that clay holds water and is very wet and sticky in winter, while in summer it becomes hard and dry, and is liable to crack badly.
— from Lessons on Soil by Russell, Edward J. (Edward John), Sir

“I do not ask either of these things for my son,” replied the good King; “but if you will make him the best of princes, I shall indeed be grateful to you.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

How her upright nature progresses with constant rebellions against the hypocrisy and cant of the religionists, by whom she is surrounded, is brought out by the author faithfully and with great delicacy of insight.
— from Red Saunders: His Adventures West & East by Henry Wallace Phillips