those of Lucca in that hypochondriacal passion.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

The proof lies in the hegelian principle of totality, which demands that if any one part be posited alone all the others shall forthwith emanate from it and infallibly reproduce the whole.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

Now Abram, having no son of his own, adopted Lot, his brother Haran's son, and his wife Sarai's brother; and he left the land of Chaldea when he was seventy-five years old, and at the command of God went into Canaan, and therein he dwelt himself, and left it to his posterity.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

I have now lived in this happy place a whole year.
— from Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Whole days have I passed in these Titanic efforts, considering my labor well repaid if, by night-time I had contrived to carry away a square inch of this hard-bound cement, changed by ages into a substance unyielding as the stones themselves; then to conceal the mass of earth and rubbish I dug up, I was compelled to break through a staircase, and throw the fruits of my labor into the hollow part of it; but the well is now so completely choked up, that I scarcely think it would be possible to add another handful of dust without leading to discovery.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There is no being but fears Zim; to him bows down Even the sainted Llama in the holy place; And the wild Kasburder chieftain at his dark power Turns pale, and seeks a foeman of some lesser race.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

The leader in taking his patrol out to the spot drops scouts at convenient distances, who will then act as runners from one post to the next and back.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

He laid his hand quickly on the knocker and lifted it; then he paused again and stopped short, as though in thought, and after the lapse of a few seconds, instead of allowing the knocker to fall abruptly, he placed it gently, and resumed his way with a sort of haste which had not been apparent previously.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

She approached Daréna and said to him timidly: “Excuse me, monsieur, but as you are a friend of Monsieur de Grandvilain, who lives in this house, perhaps you know Monsieur de Monfréville also? ”
— from The Bashful Lover (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIX) by Paul de Kock

In Tudor times the whole of the undercroft was given up to the French Protestant refugees, who, besides worshipping there, set up their looms in this hallowed portion of the Cathedral where the martyr was laid until his translation in 1220 and where Henry II. had passed the night after his severe penance.
— from Canterbury by Gordon Home

How sweet to spend a lifetime in these holy places!
— from The Miraculous Medal: Its Origin, History, Circulation, Results by Jean Marie Aladel

Peter had come aboard once for his rations, but usually he left it to his partner, for he was lying very low.
— from Greenmantle by John Buchan

Although he knew it not, he was approaching the great crisis of his life, [Pg 314] and by a way most unexpected; he was shortly to be led into that higher plane of existence, toward which he had been slowly tending through the years of his friendship with Bert.
— from Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia by J. Macdonald (James Macdonald) Oxley

But suppose Vanderdecken should heave me over [117] board on nearing a vessel, leaving it to her people to succour me if they chose?
— from The Death Ship: A Strange Story, Vol. 2 (of 3) by William Clark Russell

Innocent III.‘s successor in the Holy See, Pope Honorius III., though at first very pronounced in his opposition to the Albigensians, had less ability, less perseverance, and less influence than his predecessor.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot