—I cannot help feeling terribly excited as the time draws near for the visit of Dr. Van Helsing, for somehow I expect that it will throw some light upon Jonathan’s sad experience; and as he attended poor dear Lucy in her last illness, he can tell me all about her.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Let us judge of what can be done by what has been done.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Each has served the other and the partnership will probably last until Jewry gets ready to throw Britain over, which Jewry can do at almost any time.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

Damascius, who lived under Justinian, composed another work, consisting of 570 praeternatural stories of souls, daemons, apparitions, the dotage of Platonic Paganism.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

By the modern philosophic empiricist and by his opponent, experience has been looked upon just as a way of knowing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I now no longer understand Janet's discussions, but I believe that he has needlessly deprived himself of high credit.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

With that view Dartie at once concurred; looking upon James as a private preserve, he disapproved of his being disturbed by the troubles of others.
— from The Forsyte Saga, Volume I. The Man Of Property by John Galsworthy

He said he had been with Lucie until just now, and had only left her for a few minutes, to come and keep his appointment.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure Empyrean where he sits High Thron’d above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view: About him all the Sanctities of Heaven Stood thick as Starrs, and from his sight receiv’d Beatitude past utterance; on his right The radiant image of his Glory sat, His onely Son; On Earth he first beheld Our two first Parents, yet the onely two Of mankind, in the happie Garden plac’t, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivald love In blissful solitude; he then survey’d Hell and the Gulf between, and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heav’n on this side Night In the dun Air sublime, and ready now To stoop with wearied wings, and willing feet On the bare outside of this World, that seem’d Firm land imbosom’d without Firmament, Uncertain which, in Ocean or in Air.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap; In comes four legs And runs away with one leg; Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him drop one leg.
— from The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 by Burton Egbert Stevenson

' Again, the next day after, John stood, and two of his disciples, and looking upon Jesus as He walked, he said, Behold the Lamb of God. '
— from The Gospel of St. John: A Series of Discourses. New Edition by Frederick Denison Maurice

"She will go away, then, and leave us!" "Aye; she will leave us, Jack.
— from The Lady of Lynn by Walter Besant

If you have a book in your lap, up jumps Pussy, and seats herself right on top of it.
— from Cats: Their Points and Characteristics With Curiosities of Cat Life, and a Chapter on Feline Ailments by Gordon Stables

She looked up just in time to see their features relaxing, and moving nearer to the captain instinctively placed her hand upon his knee.
— from Dialstone Lane, Part 5. by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

For a moment in the obscurity it seemed as if he had penetrated into the abode of the ancient people who had built the ruined city, and that here they were seated around in solemn conclave to discuss some matter connected with the long low form lying upon the skin spread floor, while to make the scene the more incongruous, these strangely-carved figures were looking down upon the object, which was carefully draped with a large Union Jack.
— from Commodore Junk by George Manville Fenn

The Lanza government, whose most distinguished member was the finance minister Sella, lasted until July 10, 1873, and the second ministry of Minghetti, given distinction by the able foreign minister Visconti-Venosta, filled out the period to March 18, 1876.
— from The Governments of Europe by Frederic Austin Ogg

It was rigged just like Uncle John Godsoe's mill that he ground bark with.
— from The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series by Elijah Kellogg

His suggestion that such a thing was now impossible was not lost upon Jeanne and was a little startling.
— from The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner

Tell me, my darling, where you would like to live until June comes?"
— from A Mad Love by Charlotte M. Brame