I was never made aware of her entrance into my closed study save by the dear music of her low sweet voice, as she placed her marble hand upon my shoulder.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I know not a more cruel situation than that when the heart is bestowed on one whom the judgment could not approve.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

the Medes call spaca .
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

We must conclude, then, that if the conduct prescribed to the individual by the avowedly accepted morality of the community of which he is a member, can be shown to coincide with that to which Rational Self-love would prompt, it must be, in many cases, solely or chiefly on the score of the internal sanctions.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Lord Pembroke introduced us all to each other, and when he came to me Castelbajac said he was delighted to see me again, although he might easily have pretended not to know me under my name of Seingalt.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Privately she was of the opinion that Marilla Cuthbert swept that yard over as often as she swept her house.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The rich man can sail in a favoring gale And snap out his course at his pleasure; A Dance espouse, no Acrisius will rail, His credence by hers he will measure; Write verse, or declaim; snap the finger of scorn At the world, yet still win all his cases, The rabble will drink in his words with concern When a Cato austere it displaces.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

Mrs. Crawley sneered at her.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

[according to [ 144 ] the ascertained or reputed malignity of the locally presiding earth-demon ( puaka )], and cut its throat according to Muhammadan custom, spilling its blood into the hole.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

Ergone multitude civitates suas fame, ferro, & flamma vastari, seque, conjuges, & liberos fortunae ludibrio & tyranni libidini exponi, inque omnia vitae pericula omnesque miserias & molestias a rege deduci patientur?
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

cried Miss Crilly, sniffing the pungent, woodsy odors.
— from Polly and the Princess by Emma C. Dowd

As my eyes fell upon him my memory came surging back,—first of the duel, then of its cause.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

The crystallisation of a supersaturated solution, set up by the contact of a minute crystal, starts from it in rays with a definite velocity, and it is evident that the crystals as they form propagate the crystallisation in definite directions.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev