And Thou my cool and delicious Summer-seat, my Shangtu-Keibung!
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

Only the cleverer, the stronger, the more careful and developed survive; and so your little beast, without suspecting it, is serving the great ends of perfecting creation.”
— from The Duel and Other Stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Here it is:— “Then you may behold the rent which the people have paid into the parish treasuries employed by each parish in paying the Government its share of the sum which the Parliament or National Congress at any time grants; in maintaining and relieving its own poor and people out of work; in paying the necessary officers their salaries; in building, repairing, and adorning its houses, bridges, and other structures; in making and maintaining convenient and delightful streets, highways, and passages, both for foot and carriages; in making and maintaining canals and other conveniences for trade and navigation; in planting and taking in waste grounds; in premiums for the encouragement of agriculture or anything else thought worthy of encouragement; and, in a word, in doing whatever the people think proper, and not, as formerly, to support and spread luxury, pride, and all manner of vice....
— from Garden Cities of To-Morrow Being the Second Edition of "To-Morrow: a Peaceful Path to Real Reform" by Howard, Ebenezer, Sir

The prostatic canal is consequently much contracted and distorted, so that an instrument on being passed into the bladder has made a false passage through the third lobe.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense; but it is the sport of sensibility; wholesome and perfect therefore; as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

But now my extreme aversion, my fears, my indignation, all acting upon me, gave me a spirit not natural to me, so that breaking loose from him, I ran to the bell and rang it, with such violence and effect as to bring up the maid to know what was the matter, or whether the gentleman wanted anything; and before he could proceed to greater extremities, she bounced into the room, and seeing me stretched on the floor, my hair all dishevelled, my nose gushing out blood, which did not a little tragedize the scene, and my odious persecutor still intent of pushing his brutal point, unmoved by all my cries and distress, she was herself confounded and did not know what to do.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

«Quand nous entrerons dans l'hôtel, dit l'épouse inquiète et rougissante, il faudra nous arranger pour ne pas avoir l'air de nouveaux mariés.--Sans doute, ma chère amie, dit son mari, ... et, tiens!
— from French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann

And then, amid the clangour of the machinery, came a drifting suspicion of human voices, that I entertained at first only to dismiss.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And Mrs. Cluppins, after distinctly stating that Mr. Pickwick addressed himself to Mrs. Bardell, repeated by slow degrees, and by dint of many questions, the conversation with which our readers are already acquainted.
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Of various forms unnumber’d spectres more, Centaurs, and double shapes, besiege the door.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

[Pg 517] If the motor cells are distinct structures, they are as insentient as the motor nerve-trunks are after the posterior roots are cut.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 2 (of 2) by William James

“Have you any objection to my company?” asked Dr. Spooner.
— from Tom Thatcher's Fortune by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

"Why, why, Mr. Clump, did you not inform me sooner?" The night before, Mr. Clump and Dr. Squills had had a consultation (over a bottle of wine at the house of Sir Lapin Warren, whose lady was about to present him with a thirteenth blessing), regarding Miss Crawley and her case.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

After considerable interchange between Lord Kitchener and Mr. Brodrick and Lord Milner and Mr. Chamberlain, a definite statement of terms was offered General Botha and by letter, dated March 16th, declined.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

It seemed so ridiculous that the master of the house should be safe at a distance, and the mistress comfortably asleep, during such an event, leaving it to sister, maid, and guest, to bear all the terror of it!
— from Deerbrook by Harriet Martineau

There was, in fact, a regular feud between her and Miss Cunningham; and Dora soon saw that to preserve peace would be a difficult matter.
— from Amy Herbert by Elizabeth Missing Sewell

One stepped out of childish conventions into mannish conventions, and did so, certainly, without any instruction from outside.
— from Lore of Proserpine by Maurice Hewlett

Each station represents a great deal of missionary consecration and devoted service for the Master.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 49, No. 02, February, 1895 by Various