His affairs had fallen into disorder, in the interval since I had borrowed of him; bankruptcy stared him in the face; and a relative of his, a French lawyer, came to England to find me, and to insist upon the payment of my debt.
— from The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

All this means an accentuation of consciousness; it means a turning in upon the individual's own attitudes, powers, wishes, etc.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

In truth, mad persons are frequently more anxious to impress upon others a faith in their visions, than they are themselves confirmed in their reality; as, on the other hand, it is difficult for the most cool-headed impostor long to personate an enthusiast, without in some degree believing what he is so eager to have believed.
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

But he did, and his own changed again from that momentary anxiety to its usual expression, as he said cordially...
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Magkalalim ang tubà imnun ug madúgay nang ininum, Coconut palm toddy becomes more delicious after a quantity has already been taken in.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

[31] In French, where " step " is " la marche " we find that the analogous expression for a man about town is " un vieux marcheur ."
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

Nobody really thought much about the Internet, until suddenly, it was there for everybody.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

At that time everything that I saw made a tremendous impression upon me.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I appeal on this solemn occasion, rendered doubly sacred through the approaching hundredth anniversary of the most devastating holocaust in the annals of the Faith, at this anxious hour in the fortunes of this travailing age, to the entire body of the American believers, the privileged occupants and stout-hearted defenders of the foremost citadel of the Faith, to rededicate themselves and resolve, no matter how great the perils confronting their sister communities on the European, Asiatic, African and Australian continents, however somber the situation facing both the cradle of the Faith and its World Center, however grievous the vicissitudes they themselves may eventually suffer, to hold aloft unflinchingly the torch of the Faith impregnated with the blood of innumerable martyrs and transmit it unimpaired so that it may add luster to future generations destined to labor after them.
— from Citadel of Faith by Effendi Shoghi

I had some matches, and these I used at rare intervals, crawling carefully and feeling my way along the slimy floor of the passage.
— from St. Andrews Ghost Stories Fourth Edition by William Thomas Linskill

Even in the construction of the walls of houses the principles of heat insulation might advantageously be given far more attention than is usual at present; and no doubt will be so soon as the European sense of economy shall be brought home to the people of the land of progress and inventions.
— from A History of Science — Volume 5 by Edward Huntington Williams

Jourdan and the Intrusive King, meanwhile, were for ten days in a state of great anxiety, expecting every moment to hear that the whole Spanish army had descended from the mountains and thrown itself upon the upper Tagus.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

Indeed it happens that the finest races in India are most addicted to its use.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Of course, if infusions are to be made all this is unnecessary; the seed may be put in the liquor as soon as the broken stems, etc. are removed subsequent to threshing.
— from Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses by M. G. (Maurice Grenville) Kains

I am no more afraid than I used to be of evils which may be met with a mature mind: and just as much afraid as ever of those which terrified my childhood.”
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

Now being, as has been said before, of distinguished countenance and costume, he already had made a tender impression upon the heart of Polly Bottler; and when she had been very good and conquered the alphabet up to P the pig—at which point professional feeling always overcame the whole family—the reward of merit selected by herself would sometimes be a little visit to Bonny, as the cart came back from Findon.
— from Alice Lorraine: A Tale of the South Downs by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore