And for the adoration of the Eucharist, if the words of Christ, "This is my Body," signifie, "that he himselfe, and the seeming bread in his hand; and not onely so, but that all the seeming morsells of bread that have ever since been, and any time hereafter shall bee consecrated by Priests, bee so many Christs bodies, and yet all of them but one body," then is that no Idolatry, because it is authorized by our Saviour: but if that text doe not signifie that, (for there is no other that can be alledged for it,) then, because it is a worship of humane institution, it is Idolatry.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

THE PHILOSOPHER Doctor Parcival was a large man with a drooping mouth covered by a yellow mustache.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

He was, in [75] all respects, a better man than his predecessor; as good as any man can be, and yet be an overseer.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

"I knew you would think me changeable, but after you had all gone I began to think I should like to see it, so I followed.
— from Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma by Maude Alma

All the private household of the Empress, as well as Madame de Montesquieu, were gathered in the apartment, the Emperor, his mother, sisters, Messieurs Corvisart, Bourdier, and Yvan in an adjoining room.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various

I will myself give the matter consideration, but as you have shown yourself so quick witted in following up the matter so far, I rely upon you more than myself to carry it farther.
— from A Knight of the White Cross: A Tale of the Siege of Rhodes by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Well, Madam, continued Ben, as your dreaming has generally, as you say, turned out true, it shall not be otherwise now; there's your money —so now as you have another reason for putting faith in dreams, you can dream again.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by M. L. (Mason Locke) Weems

Then some of the bolder, more curious boys and youths had followed the river into the narrow passage it had broken for itself through the mountains.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 34, July 1, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various

Unfortunately it was holiday time, but we were shown about most courteously by a young instructor.
— from Across the Continent by the Lincoln Highway by Effie Price Gladding

Upon a show of hands upon Mr. Cobbett's amendment to Lord Northesk's resolution, the Sheriff declared it to be so equally balanced that he could not decide which had the majority, and a shuffle was resorted to; Mr. Cobbett, being a young hand at these meetings, was not aware of the tricks of the Whigs.
— from Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt