This muff, ever since the departure of Mr Jones, had been the constant companion of Sophia by day, and her bedfellow by night; and this muff she had at this very instant upon her arm; whence she took it off with great indignation, and, having writ her name with her pencil upon a piece of paper which she pinned to it, she bribed the maid to convey it into the empty bed of Mr Jones, in which, if he did not find it, she charged her to take some method of conveying it before his eyes in the morning.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

This chart of Force was more easily studied than any other possible scheme, for one had but to do what the Church was always promising to do--abolish in one flash of lightning not only man, but also the Church itself, the earth, the other planets, and the sun, in order to clear the air; without affecting mediæval science.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The moist earth seemed to steam.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

His friends and acquaintances affirm and reaffirm his ability to succeed, and make each successive triumph easier of achievement than its predecessor.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

—'One of the most extraordinary stories that has ever made its appearance in the English tongue.' NONCONFORMIST.
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

whenever they are afterwards mentioned, effects similar to those of their occasions.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

An ether, absolutely dense, would put an infinitely more effectual stop to the progress of a star than would an ether of adamant or of iron.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

In such ways the most arbitrary superstitions take a moral colour in a moral mind; something which can come about all the more easily since the roots of reason and superstition are intertwined in the mind, and society has always expressed and cultivated them together.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

He got alongside of the Abraham just as the treaty was concluded, and was in time to carry back the news to the crater, where he might expect still to arrive that evening.
— from The Crater; Or, Vulcan's Peak: A Tale of the Pacific by James Fenimore Cooper

Muscular strength and mental efficiency seem to be fixed quantities not subject to increase or improvement.
— from Increasing Human Efficiency in Business A Contribution to the Psychology of Business by Walter Dill Scott

Somehow Mr. Ellins seems to be enjoyin' the major's rush of temperament to the ears.
— from Torchy and Vee by Sewell Ford

[202] There is perhaps no familiar tribe in which the wonders of this mechanical arrangement, can be more easily studied than in the venerable family of owls.
— from The Philosophy of Natural Theology An Essay in confutation of the scepticism of the present day by William Jackson

Hence, too, we have some words which seem to the mere English scholar to be spelled in a very contradictory manner, though each, perhaps, obeys the law of its own derivation; as, peaceable and forcible, impierceable and coercible, marriageable and corrigible, damageable and eligible, changeable and tangible, chargeable and frangible, fencible and defensible, pref'erable and referrible, conversable and reversible, defendable and descendible, amendable and extendible, bendable and vendible, dividable and corrodible, returnable and discernible, indispensable and responsible, advisable and fusible, respectable and compatible, delectable and collectible, taxable and flexible .
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

He paused here a moment; and grasping his fevered brow with his hand, recalled to mind the strange occurrences, most unexpected and unfortunate, which had befallen him, since he stood there that morning; each singly trivial; each, unconnected as it seemed with the rest, and of little moment; yet all, when united, forming a chain of circumstances by which he was now fettered hand and foot—his casual interview with Catiline on the hill; his subsequent encounter of Victor and Aristius Fuscus; the recognition of his dagger by the stout cutler Volero; the death of Varus in the hippodrome; his own victorious exercises on the plain; the invitation to the feast; the sumptuous banquet; and last, alas!
— from The Roman Traitor, Vol. 1 by Henry William Herbert

How far is that?" "He means," explained Shorty, "that you go as far as you kin see from the highest hilltop to the next highest hill-top twice, and then it's only about as much farther as your voice will reach.
— from Si Klegg, Book 4 Experiences of Si and Shorty on the Great Tullahoma Campaign by John McElroy

I am now dissolved: My frozen soul melts: may each sin thou hast, Find a new mercy: Rise, I am at peace: Hadst thou been thus, thus excellently good, Before that devil King tempted thy frailty, Sure thou hadst made a star: give me thy hand; From this time I will know thee, and as far As honour gives me leave, be thy Amintor :
— from The Maids Tragedy by John Fletcher

But it has haunted me ever since—the thought of what I wanted to do, and what I should have done if God had not answered your prayer.
— from A Hive of Busy Bees by Effie Mae Hency Williams