I—’ ‘Helen, I want you a moment,’ said the distinct, low voice of my aunt, close beside us.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

In the Height of his good-Humour, meeting a common Beggar upon the Road who was no Conjurer, as he went to relieve him he found his Pocket was picked: That being a Kind of Palmistry at which this Race of Vermin are very dextrous.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

After my arrival the work was diligently pushed with about 4,000 men—as many as could be used to advantage—until interrupted by a sudden rise in the river that broke a dam at the upper end, which had been put there to keep the water out until the excavation was completed.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

He enables Cyprian to move mountains and conquer beasts, until he boasts that he can excel his infernal teacher, but the Devil cannot bring Justina.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

In native terminology, the realm of the magical is called by the word megwa , which describes the ‘magical performance,’ the ‘spell,’ the ‘force’ or ‘virtue’ of magic, and can be used as adjective to describe in general everything which presents a magical character.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

Evidently he was a chieftain, for in certain marching formations among the green men a chieftain brings up the extreme rear of the column.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

As the door had slipped aside I had noted its great thickness, fully twenty feet, and as it reached its place once more after closing behind us, great cylinders of steel had dropped from the ceiling behind it and fitted their lower ends into apertures countersunk in the floor.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

2. Natural, in things without life, as love and hatred of elements; and with life, as vegetable, vine and elm, sympathy, antipathy, &c. Sensible, as of beasts, for pleasure, preservation of kind, mutual agreement, custom, bringing up together, &c. or Rational Simple, which hath three objects as M. 2.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Monk, as closely buttoned up morally as his antagonist was physically, replied: "Ask, my friend;" and his countenance presented an expression not less open than that of D'Artagnan.
— from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas

The next day the enemy unrigged all their ships and made a strong boom with their yards, top masts, and cables, buoyed up with casks, for which they had all the leisure and convenience they could wish, the wind hindering the English from doing anything; and, to try the admiral's patience to the very utmost, it so fell out that a drunken gunner firing a pistol, his other small fire-ship was destroyed; so that he had now none left but the Little Victory , which drew too much water to enter that part of the bay where the Algerines lay.
— from Fifty-two Stories of the British Navy, from Damme to Trafalgar. by Alfred H. (Alfred Henry) Miles

But this is an abstraction of our own making and can be unmade again in the world of concepts.
— from The Philosophy of Spiritual Activity A Modern Philosophy of Life Developed by Scientific Methods by Rudolf Steiner

Republican government, when not modified by drastic democratic devices, is an expensive, cumbrous, and highly inefficient method of carrying out the popular will; and casting a vote is like nothing so much as casting bread upon the waters.
— from Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism by Floyd Dell

If written many times , the words will be memorized, and can be used in original work.
— from Best Stories from the Best Book: An Illustrated Bible Companion for the Home by James Edson White

She had never seen anything like it before, and he pointed out its beauty, what a marvellous poem it really was; music, movement, and colour built up by almost incredible labour into one stupendous whole.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne

“But does it not?” “Make a change between us!—such a thing as that!
— from John Bull on the Guadalquivir From "Tales from All Countries" by Anthony Trollope