My confusion of mind prevented me from observing that I began my tour with the wall to the left, and ended it with the wall to the right.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

But go, bury my kindness in silence, so that I may carry out my promise unknown to my parents; and at dawn I will bring to Hecate's temple charms to cast a spell upon the bulls.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

During the hour and a half, or thereabouts, which we passed in this place, it required much caution on my part to keep him within reach without attracting his observation.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The Anacalypsis informs us (vol. i. 257) that monuments of this crucified God, bearing great age, may be found amid the ruins of the magnificent city of Mahabalipore, partially buried amongst the figures of the temple.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

This is not amongst your dust-worms alone, poor snakes that will prostitute their souls for money, but with this bait you may catch our most potent, puissant, and illustrious princes.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Dantès, cast from solitude into the world, frequently experienced an imperious desire for solitude; and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, than that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of Heaven?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

As to me, I should be alike unknown in the most conspicuous or most private part of the house.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

But one day she began to talk to me of my life, of my childhood, of my parents.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

rison of concepts of Crawley, Frazer, Marett and others; Conclusion that Taboo is Negative Mana; Contribution of modern psychology to the study of Taboo; Freud's analogy between the dualistic attitude toward the tabooed object and the ambivalence of the emotions; The understanding of this dualism together with the primitive belief in Mana and Sympathetic Magic explains much in the attitude of man toward woman; The vast amount of evidence in the taboos of many peoples of dualism in the attitude toward woman.
— from Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Phyllis Mary Blanchard

Was not this mighty clever on my part?"
— from The Coming of the King by Joseph Hocking

The Press is merely curious or merely partisan.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

She cast a somewhat indignant side-look at me, to express her conviction that I was at the bottom of this, and had suggested the mild condemnation of Miss Polly—which, so far as agreeing thoroughly in her sentiments went, I confess I might have done.
— from Heart and Cross by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Each year the owner may have to pay a tax on the merchantable crops of many past years.
— from Three Acres and Liberty by Bolton Hall

Dat ha'nt done push me clean outa my place.'
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

'W-h-o-o-y!' repeated he, 'I shouldn't think—though, mind, it's mere conjectur' on my part—that you couldn't offer him less than—twenty or five-and-twenty punds; or, say, from that to thirty,' continued Jack, seeing that Puff's countenance remained complacent under the rise.
— from Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour by Robert Smith Surtees

The discharge of a field piece drove them away, but, the garrison being too feeble to attempt a pursuit, the marauders carried off' much plunder, not, however, without suffering considerably in some smart skirmishes with the inhabitants.
— from The Pictorial Field-Book of the Revolution, Vol. 1 (of 2) or, Illustrations, by Pen And Pencil, of the History, Biography, Scenery, Relics, and Traditions of the War for Independence by Benson John Lossing

—D. Pedro, the eldest of the uncrowned sons of King John I, was famous for his journeys in Europe, ending in 1428, when he returned from Venice with many treasures, among others a MS. copy of Marco Polo, and a map of the traveller's route (see Introduction to vol.
— from The Chronicle of the Discovery and Conquest of Guinea. Vol. II by Gomes Eannes de Zurara

My calls on my parishioners became the friendly, frequent, homelike sociabilities they were meant to be, instead of the hard work of a man goaded to desperation by the sight of his lists of arrears.
— from If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact by Edward Everett Hale