I am in hopes that we need have no inquest, for if we had it would surely kill poor Lucy, if nothing else did.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

His demeanour, his look, is not easily described; there was something in it peculiar, and, in its way, original.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

Along this week I saw some such procession, more or less in numbers, every day, as they were brought up by the boat.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

But, as a general rule, the true Christian has a deep pool of peace within him, which even at the lowest is never entirely dry.
— from Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians by J. C. (John Charles) Ryle

I fancy that one day, all noxious animals, and especially those which prery upon other creatures, will largely, if not entirely, disappear.
— from An Ethical Problem Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals by Albert Leffingwell

This was too much for the good lady: "If Noah either dances or sings," she exclaimed, "I'll leave the house!"
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

the fulcrum F of a lever is not equally distant
— from Conversations on Natural Philosophy, in which the Elements of that Science are Familiarly Explained by Mrs. (Jane Haldimand) Marcet

Although this building, so sacrosanct to the Florentines, had been spared by the Goths and Lombards, it narrowly escaped destruction at the hands of the Tuscan Ghibellines.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner

But George refused to say a word until the officers of the plate ships were safe under hatches; and a long interval now elapsed during which the anxiety and apprehension of the alcalde and his associates visibly increased, which was precisely the effect that the astute young captain desired to produce.
— from The Cruise of the Nonsuch Buccaneer by Harry Collingwood