"Nor of mine either, properly, I suppose.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

On Midsummer Eve people in Sweden make divining-rods of mistletoe, or of four different kinds of wood one of which must be mistletoe.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

She was sure that in my every purpose I should gain a firmer and a higher tendency, through the grief I had undergone.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

By night they assume a quality which may easily pass into something bordering upon panic-terror.
— from Rodmoor: A Romance by John Cowper Powys

-18- "Dear me!" ejaculated Perseus; "I shall be afraid to say a syllable."
— from A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tutte in quel punto, e in guardia al cor le mise; E, premendo il suo affanno, a dar si volse
— from Stories from the Italian Poets: with Lives of the Writers, Volume 2 by Leigh Hunt

A mong the numerous Authors of Observations in the Art of Physick, there are but few who have expressly written on the Treatment of those Distempers, most generally incident to an Army in the Field: The following Work, therefore, seems to have a fair Claim to be acceptable to the Publick, having been compiled during the Author’s Attendance on the [viii] British Military Hospitals in Germany in the late War; and in order to render it of still further Use, he has occasionally added, by Way of Note, the Practice of some of the most eminent Physicians in similar Diseases, as well as a few Histories of Cases which passed under his own Care at St. George ’s Hospital, London .
— from An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany by Donald Monro

The swift slaver made excellent progress in spite of light winds, and proved easy to handle.
— from Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" by Randall Parrish

It is all packed in three cases, with bands of red paint around them so they can be identified from the arms, and I have many extra parts in separate cases.
— from The Boy Fortune Hunters in the South Seas by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

Once and once only, the nurse had found an opportunity of following her out of the garden, had been detected immediately in the park, and had been asked with the most exasperating politeness if she wished to join Miss Gwilt in a walk.
— from Armadale by Wilkie Collins

The chief secondary signification of this is a man in office , or professional politician, to which are given the following synonyms: Man of rank; dishonest man; exaction; pillage; injustice; simony; a dishonorable person; a burglar.
— from Telling Fortunes by Cards A Symposium of the Several Ancient and Modern Methods as Practiced by Arab Seers and Sibyls and the Romany Gypsies by Mohammed Ali

He believed that his sister, Hilda's mother, would have developed, if she had lived, a serious melancholia ending possibly in suicide for which the family history furnished abundant precedent.
— from Ellen Levis: A Novel by Elsie Singmaster