It was Mr. Mawmsey's friendly jocoseness in questioning him which had set the tone of Lydgate's reply.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

The prosperous and the bitter in soul alike lie down in the dust at last, the good and the evil; and Job is quite content to admit that he does not understand it.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The references to their connexion with each other in myth and ritual are both fragmentary and obscure, but we gather from them that every year Tammuz was believed to die, passing away from the cheerful earth to the gloomy subterranean world, and that every year his divine mistress journeyed in quest of him “to the land from which there is no returning, to the house of darkness, where dust lies on door and bolt.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

They mean heavy play and no mistake, and so old Brooke sees, and places Crab Jones in quarters just before the goal, with four or five picked players who are to keep the ball away to the sides, where a try at goal, if obtained, will be less dangerous than in front.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

Do you know that Jupiter is quite right about it?”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

"What of that?" "For the Chancellor," said the old man with a chuckle, "not to be acquainted with a Jarndyce is queer, ain't it, Miss Flite?
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

But although this sort of self-evidence is an absolute guarantee of truth, it does not enable us to be absolutely certain, in the case of any given judgement, that the judgement in question is true.
— from The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell

"Propugnaculum Fidei Christianæ, Instar Dialogi inter Christianum et Judæum in quo quod Jesus verus Messias, verus Deus et Homo, Totius que Humani Generis Salvator."
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

But then, I thought, if I put the part about John in queer language and old spelling, she mightn't understand what we want.
— from Mary's Meadow, and Other Tales of Fields and Flowers by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing

At first he half stared at Firio, then he surveyed the steeds of his long journeyings in questioning uncertainty, and then looked back at Firio, smiling wanly.
— from Over the Pass by Frederick Palmer

69 The above myth may well have been invented by some man who, unknown to his relatives and friends, wandered across [ 116 ] the mountains into Lepanto or Benguet and returned after four years with the jars in question.
— from Origin Myths among the Mountain Peoples of the Philippines by H. Otley (Henry Otley) Beyer

La source des malheurs d’Angleterre, et de tous les maux, dont ce roiaume a été affligé depuis le regne de Jacques I. & qui ont causé la perte de Charles I. & la desertion de Jacques II.
— from The Library of William Congreve by William Congreve

The equality of Christ would not, indeed, destroy the unity of God the Father, considered as one Person: but, unless we presume the Jews in question acquainted with the great truth of the Tri-unity, we must admit that it would be considered as implying Ditheism.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Schubart, who must have known him personally, says in his eccentric manner: “Jäger is quite original; his bowing new, unconstrained, and impetuously fiery.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

Joe is quite used to it now.
— from The Test Colony by Winston K. Marks