Confess instantly!' 'Well, my dear,' said Mr Boffin, 'the truth is, that when we did go in for the little scheme that my old lady has pinted out, I did put it to John, what did he think of going in for some such general scheme as you have pinted out?
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

Life seemed to me rich, varied, full of charm.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When the price lowers sufficiently, the market is cleared of cotton by buyers previously prepared, and then the price soars to high figures again.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Indeed, as has been repeatedly pointed out, in quoting the formulæ, and as we shall have to discuss later still, the magical words are, so to speak, rubbed in by constant repetition to the substance.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I wished I had a light to smoke by, little suspecting the meaning of the minute gleam I had seen and all that it would presently bring me.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

It is situated on a hill in a lonely situation two miles from the church and castle, and more than a mile from any of the five villages which were then included in the parish of Hurstmonceaux; but it was surrounded by large gardens with fine trees, had a wide distant view over levels and sea, and was in all respects externally more like the house of a squire than a clergyman.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

But this proves very little, since the majority rarely, if ever, turns out to be right in the long run.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

His tunc cognitis rebus amici regis , 15 qui propter aetatem eius in procuratione erant regni, sive timore adducti, ne Pompeius Alexandriam Aegyptunique occuparet, sive despecta eius fortuna, iis, qui erant ab eo missi, palam liberaliter responderunt eumque ad regem venire iusserunt: ipsi, 20 clam consilio inito, Achillan, praefectum regium, singulari hominem audacia, et L. Septimium, tribunum militum, ad interficiendum Pompeium miserunt.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

It is necessary also to study the location, so that my apartments may face north and south, in order that I may change my residence according to the season.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

It was long before I myself would admit an inherent power in symbols, for it long seemed to me that one could account for everything by the power of one imagination over another, telepathy as it is called with that separation of knowledge and life, of word and emotion, which is the sterility of scientific speech.
— from Ideas of Good and Evil by W. B. (William Butler) Yeats

It was a case of elephantiasis, a common disease of the islands, but against a background of such loveliness seeming the more terrible.
— from The Cruise of the Dream Ship by Ralph Stock

According to Léri and Roger, it is sometimes dangerous to use such measures as massage and electric baths for a paralyzed limb, since the massage or electricity excite not only the affected muscles, but also the other sound muscles,—muscles that are already more powerful than the paralyzed muscles and may go into antagonistic contracture.
— from Shell-Shock and Other Neuropsychiatric Problems Presented in Five Hundred and Eighty-nine Case Histories from the War Literature, 1914-1918 by Elmer Ernest Southard

In fact, Sunium 610 is as much a promontory as Laconia, and not very much less south than Malea, 611 forming a considerable bay, 612 and the Thracian Chersonesus 613 and Sunium 614 form the Gulf of Melas, 615 and likewise those of Macedonia.
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 1 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

"I may say," said he, seriously to his friend, "that I have always thought Monsieur Courtois an excellent and honorable man, and Mademoiselle Laurence seems to me so accomplished a young lady, that a man might be happy in marrying her even without a dowry."
— from The Mystery of Orcival by Emile Gaboriau