I was with him this morning at poor little Paddy Dignam’s...
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

They dwell too deep within us and are too much a part of our natures to come to our attention till the light of God is focused upon them.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

Les contacts amicaux et professionnels, par courrier électronique donc, ainsi que la transmission de documents écrits ou d'images, mais assez peu de navigation.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

I did not want to make a mistake like "Ball's Bluff" at that period of the war; so, taking one or two of my personal staff, I rode back to Grog's Bridge, leaving with Generals Howard and Slocum orders to make all possible preparations, but not to attack, during my two or three days' absence; and there I took a boat for Wassaw Sound, whence Admiral Dahlgren conveyed me in his own boat (the Harvest Moon) to Hilton Head, where I represented the matter to General Foster, and he promptly agreed to give his personal attention to it.
— from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman — Complete by William T. (William Tecumseh) Sherman

The eye easily discerns in these a great M inscribed in the circle, with its middle angular point at Jerusalem.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

PURSE-NET, net of which the mouth is drawn together with a string. PURSUIVANT, state messenger who summoned the persecuted seminaries; warrant officer. PURSY, PURSINESS, shortwinded(ness). PUT, make a push, exert yourself (N.E.D.).
— from Volpone; Or, The Fox by Ben Jonson

He has likewise promised me to get the Measure of his Mistress's Marriage-Finger, with a Design to make a Posy in the Fashion of a Ring, which shall exactly fit it.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I will say no more at present as to the uselessness of medicine.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If it’s on the market I’ll buy it—if it means another penny on the income-tax.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

I will fight him to the last gasp; kill all his men; slay his women; drown his children; level his huts; burn up his meat—” Amalatok paused and glared, apparently uncertain about the propriety of wasting good meat.
— from The Giant of the North: Pokings Round the Pole by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

[85] Principles of Moral and Political Science, Part I. c. i. sect.
— from Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind (Vol. 1 of 3) by Thomas Brown

We have met with many absurd people in our journey through life, but a more eccentric individual never before nor since has come under our immediate observation.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

Exquisitely lovely in memory rises the scene, when after duly committing to memory and practicing, cutting down to the right length and repeatedly rehearsing the speeches, the dialogues and the musical parts, the boys and the girls, in a glow of excitement, gathered in the rooms below the stage.
— from John Chambers, Servant of Christ and Master of Hearts, and His Ministry in Philadelphia by William Elliot Griffis

A number of valuable and interesting documents, illustrative of the Revolutionary movement, are preserved in the Appendix.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIV, May 1852, Vol. IV by Various

Yes, I think I might make a pretty good doctor's wife.
— from A Mortal Antipathy by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The alternating-current component can’t get along in the coil because its frequency is so high that the coil impedes the motion of the electrons so much as practically to stop them.
— from Letters of a Radio-Engineer to His Son by John Mills

Matthew, will you give me a part of my money?"
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster

The long and short is that the Protestants— i.e. the Lord Chancellor and his Court; my Guardians; my friends and relations; and Mansel, Liddon, and Co. have extorted from me a promise not to become a Catholic till I am of age.
— from John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. (1847-1900), a Memoir by Hunter Blair, David Oswald, Sir

The celts averaged 6 inches in length; all were well made and polished; four were of greenstone, one of a bluish-gray stone.
— from The Maya Indians of Southern Yucatan and Northern British Honduras by Thomas William Francis Gann