Then you become more intimate; he takes you to a cafe, invites you to his country-house, introduces you, between two drinks, to all sorts of people; and three-fourths of the time it’s only to plunder your watch or lead you into some pernicious step.
— from Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert

Chemistry of the Blood in Scurvy, Proc. Soc.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

Though I have seen and known enough of mankind to be well aware, that I shall perhaps stand alone in my creed, and that it will be well, if I subject myself to no worse charge than that of singularity; I am not therefore deterred from avowing, that I regard, and ever have regarded the obligations of intellect among the most sacred of the claims of gratitude.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why should we lose it?” said Pyotr Stepanovitch, lifting the lantern to his face.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“I shall perish,” said he, “I must perish in this deplorable folly.
— from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

My father, who was watching over me, perceiving my restlessness, awoke me; the dashing waves were around: the cloudy sky above; the fiend was not here: a sense of security, a feeling that a truce was established between the present hour and the irresistible, disastrous future, imparted to me a kind of calm forgetfulness, of which the human mind is by its structure peculiarly susceptible.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

General Spielsdorf's letter was so extraordinary, so vehement, and in some places so self-contradictory, that I read it twice over--the second time aloud to my father--and was still unable to account for it, except by supposing that grief had unsettled his mind.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

A Gothic Bishop perhaps, thought it proper to repeat such a Form in such particular Shoes or Slippers; another fancied it would be very decent if such a Part of publick Devotions were performed with a Mitre on his Head, and a Crosier in his Hand: To this a Brother Vandal , as wise as the others, adds an antick Dress, which he conceived would allude very aptly to such and such Mysteries, till by Degrees the whole Office has degenerated into an empty Show.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Directed activities, I. SEE Powers, Samuel Ralph.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1963 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

In this book there is some poetry, some pathos, and some philosophy, but the story of this drama called Job, is heartless to the last degree.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

For instance, Miss Laura, whatever she sees worth a shilling in any shop, might be hers if she pleases; so then it is quite as good as her own.
— from Holiday House: A Series of Tales by Catherine Sinclair

The finest example which I have seen of this wave was at Nova Scotia, 453 where the tide is said to rise in some places seventy feet perpendicular, and to be the highest in the world.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

This nowe remayneth / that I sholde peculiarlie speake of the Iues / and heretikes.
— from A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull. Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same. by Heinrich Bullinger