We walked by one another for some time without speaking; at length we joined company, and agreed to keep together till we got to our journey's end; what his designs or ideas were, I know not: the innocence of mine I can solemnly protest.
— from Memoirs of Fanny Hill A New and Genuine Edition from the Original Text (London, 1749) by John Cleland

One hour, two hours—what more I cannot say, passed in this manner.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Beginnings have been made in child study, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis of the effects of different types of isolation upon personal development.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Mas nunca de modo tal But never before so real fanatizó mi razón the way my crazed reason mi loca imaginación filled my mad imagination con su poder ideal.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

Mercurialists are solitary, much in contemplation, subtle, poets, philosophers, and musing most part about such matters.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Among the plants used medicinally by the natives is the contrayerba , which grows in the mountains in cold shady places: the stem is about two feet high, of a purple colour; it is divided by knots like a cane, where the leaves grow opposite to each other; these are three or four inches long, narrow, denticulated, and of a very dark green colour.
— from Historical and descriptive narrative of twenty years' residence in South America (Vol 2 of 3) Containing travels in Arauco, Chile, Peru, and Colombia; with an account of the revolution, its rise, progress, and results by Stevenson, William Bennet, active 1803-1825

"My object is partly to make it understood how much importance I attach to the element of Colonial co-operation and sympathy, not only as affecting the immediate success of the work, but bearing on the higher objects of national unity, by inspiring among our fellow-subjects in every part of the Empire those emotions of patriotism which national music is calculated so powerfully to evoke.
— from Speeches and Addresses of H. R. H. the Prince of Wales: 1863-1888 by King of Great Britain Edward VII

"Should my cousin be induced to forego his claims upon me for the income I have expended, and I can find some means of maintaining myself, I could still provide for their school expenses and keep them with me."
— from A Crooked Path: A Novel by Mrs. Alexander

lly untouched by the knowledge of the North that had already appeared in King [Pg 190] Alfred and in Adam of Bremen, and show how much ignorance could still prevail in learned quarters on many points connected with these regions.
— from In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times (Volume 2 of 2) by Fridtjof Nansen

I knew a man in Christ, (saith Paul there) caught up into the third heaven.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Away with the frigid excuse of many: I can say prayers at home, but I cannot at home hear homilies and doctrine.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens