Candide, distracted between joy and grief, delighted at seeing his faithful agent again, astonished at finding him a slave, filled with the fresh hope of recovering his mistress, his heart palpitating, his understanding confused, sat down to table with Martin, who saw all these scenes quite unconcerned, and with six strangers who had come to spend the Carnival at Venice.
— from Candide by Voltaire

At last the tapping recommenced, and, to our indescribable joy and gratitude, died slowly away again until it ceased to be heard.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a great deal of jolting, a great deal of noise, a great deal of wall, not much window, a locomotive engine, a shriek, and a bell.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

56 And while every virtue attracts us and makes us love those who seem to possess it, still justice and generosity do so most of all.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Since I had heard that God was all-knowing and all-seeing," she said, "the dream can only mean that I know everything and see everything just as God does, even when they try to prevent me."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Many of the early Christians and cotemporary Jews and Gentiles doubted it, and some openly disputed its ever having taken place.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

It was obvious that he had no social gifts, but these a man can do without; he had no eccentricity even, to take him out of the common run; he was just a good, dull, honest, plain man.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

The names of notable Digambara leaders like Jinasena and Guṇabhadra dating from this period are preserved and Jainism must in some districts have become the dominant religion.
— from Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

We jogged a good deal riding over this debris.
— from At Ypres with Best-Dunkley by Thomas Hope Floyd

“Jacky a good deal glad because you not dead now.
— from It Is Never Too Late to Mend by Charles Reade

Smedley, who had already been some weeks at sea, was able to give Jack a good deal of instruction in his duties, and found him an apt scholar.
— from John Deane of Nottingham: Historic Adventures by Land and Sea by William Henry Giles Kingston

The stock-in-trade of this fortune-teller consisted merely of a convincing manner, a few words of scientific jargon, a great deal of impudence, and much good luck.
— from The Original Fables of La Fontaine Rendered into English Prose by Fredk. Colin Tilney by Jean de La Fontaine

And she is in just as great distress, harried and tormented by love, taking no pleasure in aught she sees since that moment when she saw him last.
— from Four Arthurian Romances by Chrétien, de Troyes, active 12th century

We shall meet with Samuel Johnson a good deal in the future course of this history, and have now only to mention as a fact the publication of the work on which he himself believed his fame was to rest.
— from A History of the Four Georges, Volume II by Justin McCarthy