[Looks at her a moment, understands, and whispers passionately.]
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The Italics , which I have copied, were, I suppose, put in by the reviewer, who adds, "Q. Whether the Lamb and Horse are mounted upon Chancery Lane, or two virtues, or happy men?"
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

C H A P. XLIV W HAT a chapter of chances, said my father, turning himself about upon the first landing, as he and my uncle Toby were going down stairs, what a long chapter of chances do the events of this world lay open to us!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe, To let mee live, O love and hate mee too.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

Cy , H40 , O'F: stay, 1633 , JC: staye, D , H49 not] and H40 23-4 Lest thou thy love and hate and mee undoe To let mee live, Oh (of in some copies ) love and hate mee too. 1633 , B Then lest thou thy love hate, and mee thou undoe O let me live, yet love and hate me too.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

What a chapter of chances, said my father, turning himself about upon the first landing, as he and my uncle Toby were going down stairs, what a long chapter of chances do the events of this world lay open to us!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

condition of life, and had asked me up so that I might' have the first news of it.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Whilst, therefore, our Lord and His Apostles might use the word δαιμονἱζεσθαι, or the phrase, δαιμὁνιον ἑχειν, as a popular description of Page 86
— from Lectures and Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Then Sir Launcelot armed him and mounted upon his horse, and the noble knights came out of the city, and the host without stood all apart; and so the covenant was made that no man should come near the two knights, nor deal with them, till one were dead or yielded.
— from The Age of Chivalry by Thomas Bulfinch

It rained hard all night, and was [Pg 25] consequently pitch dark, so that the reconnoitring party could see very little and had a most unpleasant journey, returning to the huts at 2 o'clock the next morning (Easter Day), tired out and soaked to the skin.
— from The Fifth Leicestershire A Record Of The 1/5th Battalion The Leicestershire Regiment, T.F., During The War, 1914-1919. by John David Hills

At all events, it would give him time to look about him, and make up his mind for the future.
— from David Elginbrod by George MacDonald

And he concluded by desiring that I would take two or three days to consider whether I could not stay in till the end of another quarter, for that, like a man going, to the gallows, he was willing to put it off as long as he could; but if I persisted, he must then look about him and make up his mind to do the best he could: and so he took leave.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

'She had come late into life, and had a mighty unpliable understanding,' v. 296.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell

Whilst, therefore, our Lord and His Apostles might use the word δαιμονίζεσθαι , or the phrase, δαιμόνιον ἔχειν as a popular description of certain diseases, without giving in to the belief which lay at the source of such a mode of expression, they could not speak of demons entering into a man, or being cast out of him, without pledging themselves to the belief of an actual possession of the man by the demons.
— from Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley

Whilst, therefore, our Lord and His Apostles might use the word δαιμονίζεσθαι , or the phrase δαιμόνιον ἔχειν , as a popular description of certain diseases, without giving in to the belief which lay at the source of such a mode of expression, they could not speak of demons entering into a man, or being cast out of him, without pledging themselves to the belief of an actual possession of the man by the demons.
— from Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions by Thomas Henry Huxley