There was an uncomfortable silence, but relief soon came, for that poor dog came along now, with his eye hanging down, and went straight to Satan, and began to moan and mutter brokenly, and Satan began to answer in the same way, and it was plain that they were talking together in the dog language.
— from The Mysterious Stranger, and Other Stories by Mark Twain

The problems are such things as the relations of mind and matter; body and soul; humanity and physical nature; the individual and the social; theory—or knowing, and practice—or doing.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The same title has been bestowed on Venice, where absolute power over the great body of the people is exercised, in the most absolute manner, by a small body of hereditary nobles.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

At this dance the old women, who had been merry a moment before, again shed tears freely.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I had a strong impulse to throw myself on his mercy and offer to join his side, and if you consider the way I felt about the whole thing you will see that that impulse must have been purely physical, the weakness of a brain mesmerized and mastered by a stronger spirit.
— from The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan

He wandered on and on, and grew more and more bewildered, and so tired and faint he could hardly drag one foot after the other.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

BIDAULT (Monsieur and Madame), brother and sister-in-law of Bidault, alias Gigonnet; father and mother of M. and Mme.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

A highway, a bridge, a navigable canal, for example, may, in most cases, be both made add maintained by a small toll upon the carriages which make use of them; a harbour, by a moderate port-duty upon the tonnage of the shipping which load or unload in it.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

But some years ago the invasion of the Rakshasas took place, and they devoured all his subjects, and himself and my mother, and my brothers and sisters.
— from Folk-Tales of Bengal by Lal Behari Day

“Show that,” she says, “to my aunt, Mrs. Barkis, and she’ll set you down by her fire, for the love of me, till uncle is gone out, and I can come.”
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Following his policy of tantalism, Deerfoot made a mock bow and said: "Blackfoot, the Shawanoe is glad to see you come at last.
— from Deerfoot in The Mountains by Edward Sylvester Ellis

Whether he’ll manage to live there I don’t know, but I hope he will, and get back to Sandgate one of these days, I have no time to write more; so with love to mother, and my brothers and sisters, and even to Aunt Deb— “I remain your affectionate son— “Richard Cheveley.”
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

But it was easier said than done; the eyes of no Frank ever fell on her, and when he was most closely driven the Khalifa Ilderim abandoned his cattle and sheep, but, with the females of the tribe still safely guarded, fell more and more backward and southward; drawing the French on and on, farther and farther across the plains, in the sickliest times of hottest drought.
— from Under Two Flags by Ouida

It was no thanks to me and my blundering asinine stupidity that you came in safe at all.”
— from John Ames, Native Commissioner: A Romance of the Matabele Rising by Bertram Mitford

She becomes a governess much as many a man becomes a schoolmaster: to take revenge on the backs of a rising generation for mortifications endured in the battle of life.
— from John Bull's Womankind (Les Filles de John Bull) by Max O'Rell

The symbols employed by the Hebrew prophets may have had, as used by them, as definite a meaning, and may be as susceptible of as clear an interpretation now, as the symbols employed in Egypt, or as any other language.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

His parents were glad to send him to the village shoemaker to learn the art and mystery of making and mending boots and shoes.
— from Lives of Illustrious Shoemakers by W. E. (William Edward) Winks

But she protested the contrary, her face glowing more and more brightly as she spoke, as if some sudden feeling of shame quite upset her.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 4 by Émile Zola