11 p. m. —I gave Renfield a strong opiate to-night, enough to make even him sleep, and took away his pocket-book to look at it.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The best travelers are those who can eat cats in China, oil in Greenland, frogs in France, and maccaroni in Italy; who can smoke a meershaum in Germany, ride an elephant in India, shoot partridges in England, and wear a turban in Turkey; in short, in every nation adapt their habits, {181} costume, and taste to the national manners, dress and dishes.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The biographical method is generally recommended as the natural mode of approach to historical study.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

I could not but highly plume myself on my masterly management in getting rid of Bartleby.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

Having made up my mind to hope no more, I got rid of a great deal of that terror which unmanned me at first.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

This was not a very politic step, as it turned out; for the pigs scenting him, and looking upon the coach as a kind of pie with some manner of meat inside, grunted round it so hideously, that he was afraid to come out again, and lay there shivering, till morning.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

193 "Nothing but a story; won't amount to much, I guess," returned Jo, carefully keeping the name of the paper out of sight.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

A million in gold remains; it is buried in the cellars of Newcastle Keep.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

A man is generally rendered somewhat a worse reasoner for having been a minister.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

And men in general recall only with difficulty the things of another world, but the mind of the philosopher has a better remembrance of them.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

The “smelting pot of the races” Stevenson called the region along the water front, for here the people of all these craft met, Italians, Greeks, Russians, Lascars, Kanakas, Alaska Indians, black Gilbert Islanders, Spanish-Americans, wanderers and sailors from all the world, who came in and out from among the queer craft to lose themselves in the disreputable shanties and saloons.
— from The San Francisco Calamity by Earthquake and Fire by Charles Morris

R (Remiz, the Arabic Ramz, a secret, intimation, insinuation, or suggestion of meaning) illustrates certain letters and signs apparently superfluous and explained only by tradition; in a more general manner, it gave rise to a memoria technica and a stenography resembling the Roman Notaricon .
— from The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

But, in my judgment, the Act of 1844 is only a subordinate matter in the Money Market; what has to be said on it has been said at disproportionate length; the phenomena connected with it have been magnified into greater relative importance than they at all deserve.
— from Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot

HALCYONE, daughter of Aeneas, and the beloved wife of Ceyx, who, when he was drowned, flew to his floating body, and the pitying gods changed them both to birds (kingfishers), who nest at sea during a certain calm week in winter ("halcyon weather") HAMADRYADS, tree-nymphs or wood-nymphs, See Nymphs HARMONIA, daughter of Mars and Venus, wife of Cadmus HAROUN AL RASCHID, Caliph of Arabia, contemporary of Charlemagne HARPIES, monsters, with head and bust of woman, but wings, legs and tail of birds, seizing souls of the wicked, or punishing evildoers by greedily snatching or defiling their food HARPOCRATES, Egyptian god, Horus HEBE, daughter of Juno, cupbearer to the gods HEBRUS, ancient name of river Maritzka HECATE, a mighty and formidable divinity, supposed to send at night all kinds of demons and terrible phantoms from the lower world HECTOR, son of Priam and champion of Troy HECTOR, one of Arthur's knights HECTOR DE MARYS', a knight HECUBA, wife of Priam, king of Troy, to whom she bore Hector, Paris, and many other children HEGIRA, flight of Mahomet from Mecca to Medina (622 AD), era from which Mahometans reckon time, as we do from the birth of Christ HEIDRUN, she goat, furnishing mead for slain heroes in Valhalla HEIMDALL, watchman of the gods HEL, the lower world of Scandinavia, to which were consigned those who had not died in battle HELA (Death), the daughter of Loki and the mistress of the Scandinavian Hel HELEN, daughter of Jupiter and Leda, wife of Menelaus, carried off by Paris and cause of the Trojan War HELENUS, son of Priam and Hecuba, celebrated for his prophetic powers HELIADES, sisters of Phaeton HELICON, Mount, in Greece, residence of Apollo and the Muses, with fountains of poetic inspiration, Aganippe and Hippocrene HELIOOPOLIS, city of the Sun, in Egypt HELLAS, Gieece HELLE, daughter of Thessalian King Athamas, who, escaping from cruel father with her brother Phryxus, on ram with golden fleece, fell into the sea strait since named for her (See Golden Fleece) HELLESPONt, narrow strait between Europe and Asia Minor, named for Helle HENGIST, Saxon invader of Britain, 449 AD HEPHAESTOS, See VULCAN HERA, called Juno by the Romans, a daughter of Cronos (Saturn) and Rhea, and sister and wife of Jupiter, See JUNO HERCULES, athletic hero, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, achieved twelve vast labors and many famous deeds HEREWARD THE WAKE, hero of the Saxons HERMES (Mercury), messenger of the gods, deity of commerce, science, eloquence, trickery, theft, and skill generally HERMIONE, daughter of Menelaus and Helen HERMOD, the nimble, son of Odin HERO, a priestess of Venus, beloved of Leander HERODOTUS, Greek historian HESIOD, Greek poet HESPERIA, ancient name for Italy HESPERIDES (See Apples of the Hesperides)
— from Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

However, the result of this wear and tear and repair of the muscular tissue is that the activity of the mind decreases in inverse proportion to that of the body; and during a hard course of training the rowing man is generally rather sleepy and unintellectual.
— from The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

“It goes right — straight—wait a minute — it goes right straight through the dentist’s—Dr. Wade’s ——” “You make me tired!”
— from Roy Blakeley's Bee-line Hike by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Miss Mann is gratefully remembered by her pupils here and their friends.
— from History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by George Washington Williams

Whether from the nature of the subject, or the mode of treating it, or both, Measure for Measure is generally regarded as one of the least attractive, though most instructive, of Shakespeare's plays.
— from Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Henry Norman Hudson

“The moment I got rid of ’em, she packed up my things and was off.”
— from Jinny the Carrier by Israel Zangwill