What the bird brings they may keep for themselves, but what the carrier brings they must reserve for the Devil, and that is brought to Blockula, where he doth give them of it so much as he thinks fit.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I suppose Mr. and Mrs. Irving are on the Pacific coast now.”
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

What On the signification of the word Spirit, dependeth that of the word INSPIRATION; which must either be taken properly; and then it is nothing but the blowing into a man some thin and subtile aire, or wind, in such manner as a man filleth a bladder with his breath; or if Spirits be not corporeal, but have their existence only in the fancy, it is nothing but the blowing in of a Phantasme; which is improper to say, and impossible; for Phantasmes are not, but only seem to be somewhat.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

‘What a nice young lady Miss Emily is!’ said Mary, after a long silence.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Thence to White Hall, and there a Committee met, where little was done, and thence to the Duke of York to Council, where we the officers of the Navy did attend about the business of discharging the seamen by tickets, where several of the Lords spoke and of our number none but myself, which I did in such manner as pleased the King and Council.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This singular poem, the authorship of which is, in some manuscripts, assigned to Sæmund himself, may be termed a Voice from the Dead, given under the form of a dream, in which a deceased father is supposed to address his son from another world.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

I should marry a woman with money," he mused.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Observe how the picture that Webster draws here is much more emphatic and forceful than any mere assertion could be: Sir, I know not how others may feel, but as for myself when I see my alma mater surrounded, like Caesar in the senate house, by those who are reiterating stab after stab, I would not for this right hand have her turn to me and say, "And thou, too, my son!"— Webster .
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

The two young men, coming to consort together, found each other's usances so conformable that there was born thereof a brotherhood between them and a friendship so great that it was never sundered by other accident than death, and neither of them knew weal nor peace save in so much as they were together.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

“ Valentine Day. —Let a single woman go out of her own door very early in the morning, and if the first person she meets be a woman, she will not be married that year; if she meet a man she will be married within three months.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

Ten years from now I shall make another list and it
— from What's What in America by Eugene V. (Eugene Valentine) Brewster

Now, the distance of Charleston from the Woodstock epicentre is sixteen miles, and from the corresponding focus (with the calculated value of its depth) twenty miles.
— from A Study of Recent Earthquakes by Charles Davison

The chances are that it will, from this second position, find something round which it can twine; but failing this its summit may again and again bend to the ground, thus renewing its attempts from various positions more or less distant from one another, and in each effort so made the revolving upper end of the stem gradually lengthens, and describes a larger and larger circle in search for a favourable prop.
— from Field and Woodland Plants by William S. Furneaux

Here and there instructors select materials and in other ways relate the general courses to household arts, but after all a girl who completes these courses has acquired the same educational fundamentals that her brother gets in Columbia College or in any other standard college for men.
— from Sex-education A series of lectures concerning knowledge of sex in its relation to human life by Maurice A. (Maurice Alpheus) Bigelow

Near the place where I stood [marked A on the plan], had occurred most of the phenomena, which could be located at all.
— from The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green

In the following tables are summarized some of the results which have been obtained in comparing the activity of bases , in saponifying methyl acetate, and the concentrations of the hydroxide-ion , in the solutions of the bases, as determined by conductivity measurements.
— from The Elements of Qualitative Chemical Analysis, vol. 1, parts 1 and 2. With Special Consideration of the Application of the Laws of Equilibrium and of the Modern Theories of Solution. by Julius Stieglitz

25-27, which [331] more particularly demands our attention, is stated by Origen(1) to be placed in some MSS at the end of ch.
— from Supernatural Religion, Vol. 3 (of 3) An Inquiry into the Reality of Divine Revelation by Walter Richard Cassels

The flies being in such myriads around us, so that we could do nothing.
— from Narrative of an Expedition into Central Australia Performed Under the Authority of Her Majesty's Government, During the Years 1844, 5, and 6, Together With A Notice of the Province of South Australia in 1847 by Charles Sturt

No otherwise than what ye well deserv'd. Was it so medium a matter, to defame, And thus abuse an honest woman's name?
— from The Gentle Shepherd: A Pastoral Comedy by Allan Ramsay

“I have acted,” replied Taric, “in such manner as I thought would best serve the cause of Islam, and in so doing I thought to fulfill the wishes of Muza.
— from Spanish Papers by Washington Irving