I felt that it was getting very late indeed, but I did not say anything, for I felt under obligation to meet my host’s wishes in every way.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Klaproth also says, "Bhonbp'o, Bhanpo, and Shen , are the names by which are commonly designated (in Tibetan) the Taoszu, or follower of the Chinese philosopher Laotseu."[11] Schlagintweit refers to Schmidt's Tibetan Grammar (p. 209) and to the Calcutta edition of the Fo-kouè-ki (p. 218) for the like identification, but I do not know how far any two of these are independent testimonies.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Don't laugh, I believe in dreams."
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Now a body, says Apollodorus in his Natural Philosophy, is extended in a threefold manner; in length, in breadth, in depth; and then it is called a solid body; and the superficies is the limit of the body having length and breadth alone, but not depth.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

For many years, my opportunities of intercourse with Mr. Southey have been rare, and at long intervals; but I dwell with unabated pleasure on the strong and sudden, yet I trust not fleeting, influence, which my moral being underwent on my acquaintance with him at Oxford, whither I had gone at the commencement of our Cambridge vacation on a visit to an old school-fellow.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Nearly half the Purāṇas follow the cosmogony of the Sānkhya, and even those which are Vedāntic are largely influenced by its doctrines.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

She did not like it; but I did many a thing she did not like, I’m afraid—and now she’s gone!
— from Cranford by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

“It’s all very well for you fellows,” he says; “you like it, but I don’t.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

Adv. by degrees, gradually, inasmuch, pro tanto[It]; however, howsoever; step by step, bit by bit, little by little, inch by inch, drop by drop; a little at a time, by inches, by slow degrees, by degrees, by little and little; in some degree, in some measure; to some extent; di grado in grado[Lat].
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Doggerel is not uncommon in the earliest plays; there are a few lines even in the Merchant of Venice , a line and a half, perhaps, in As You Like It ; but I do not think it occurs later, not even where, in an early play, it would certainly have been found, e.g. in the mouth of the Clown in All's
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

I lament it, but I don't talk to her about it any more.
— from The Open Question: A Tale of Two Temperaments by Elizabeth Robins

At length, imagination began its dreadful charms—the room enlarged itself in its gloom to vast space—I began to hear cries from under my bed.
— from Rattlin the Reefer by Edward Howard

"Monsieur le préfet," she added with dignity, "the matters enclosed in this portfolio are of little importance; but I desire to give them to you myself, so that I can tell you their intended destination.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. VI, 1832 to 1833 by Alexandre Dumas

The more I reflected on the subject the more lost I became in daring speculations concerning that other world, to which I was soon to be lifted.
— from A Romance of Two Worlds: A Novel by Marie Corelli

His sister prob'ly won't like it, but I don't care.
— from Thankful's Inheritance by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

'I do return your love, I believe I do—though I hardly seem to have shaped it out to myself yet—but'—— 'Yes; there is a "but"—I know it.
— from Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, No. 691 March 24, 1877 by Various

"Owing to certain complications which have arisen in the affairs of my son Lester," it began, "I deem it my duty to make certain conditions which shall govern the distribution of the remainder of my property, to wit: One-fourth of the stock of the Kane Manufacturing Company and one-fourth of the remainder of my various properties, real, personal, moneys, stocks and bonds, to go to my beloved son Robert, in recognition of the faithful performance of his duty, and one-fourth of the stock of the Kane Manufacturing Company and the remaining fourth of my various properties, real, personal, moneys, stocks and bonds, to be held in trust by him for the benefit of his brother Lester, until such time as such conditions as may hereinafter be set forth shall have been complied with.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

It was not long indeed before I did begin to form an opinion of my own; one of those AFTER-judgments which are liable to be mistaken for prejudices by those who judge differently, and which, being formed, do, no doubt, tell upon the balance.
— from Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 2 by Thomas Henry Huxley

"Une lieue et demie, ou deux lieues, a moins qu'ils ne soient plus avances depuis hier," * repled she, with the utmost indifference.—I own, I did not much approve of such a vicinage, and a view of the fortifications (which did not make the less impression, because I did not understand them,) was absolutely necessary to raise my drooping courage.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs