When he was very much interested he often spoke quite broad Yorkshire though at other times he tried to modify his dialect so that Mary could better understand.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

To conceive of a man being free we must imagine him outside space, which is evidently impossible.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She is engaged to be married to a most worthy and deserving man in her own station of life.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

133 Before we consider this condition in its further effects, we would admit to ourselves that man is betrayed into this condition not through his "fault" and "sin" but through a series of delusions of the reason; that it was the fault of the mirror if his own self appeared to him in the highest degree dark and hateful, and that that mirror was his own work, the very imperfect work of human imagination and judgment.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

If he was found there again, no matter what his object might be, or whatever length of time might intervene, his original sentence would be carried into execution.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

To beg, and go barefoot, in coarse woollen cloak with a rope round your loins, and be despised of all the world, was no beautiful business;—nor an honorable one in any eye, till the nobleness of those who did so had made it honored of some!
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Sherman then expressed his alarm at the move I had ordered, saying that I was putting myself in a position voluntarily which an enemy would be glad to manoeuvre a year—or a long time—to get me in.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

For the last six months I have only smiled, not laughed; while at Grenoble I laughed heartily from true gladness.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

They then fired at them with their muskets, in hopes of stranding the rope, but they failed in that also.
— from Frank Mildmay; Or, the Naval Officer by Frederick Marryat

He watches my drawing—I go astray sometimes to mislead him—and next thing I know he incorporates the same motive in his own sketches.
— from The Come Back by Carolyn Wells

So many incidents had occurred substantially as they had been planned, that trust in the foresight of our leader, with the assurance that all would come out right, was greatly strengthened.
— from Capturing a Locomotive: A History of Secret Service in the Late War. by William Pittenger

Within, a maze it has Of sundrie wayes, entangled (like the roots Of thicke-set trees, amids and all abouts), That meet in plaine."
— from The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius Comprising the Ethiopics; or, Adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea; The pastoral amours of Daphnis and Chloe; and the loves of Clitopho and Leucippe by of Emesa Heliodorus

Astonishment is no more in hand or shoulder, But darkens, and dies out from kiss to kiss.
— from Selected Poems by Rupert Brooke

Grand old trees, romantic walks, delicious flowers, had no existence for him; the whole world was one great, hueless, formless void, in which he beheld nothing but the spectral image mirrored in his own soul.
— from Fairy Fingers A Novel by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie

Take, for example, the following: ‘Whosoever shall harbour a scurra [18] for more than one night, may lawfully duck such an one on the morrow if he or she refuse to quit his abode.’
— from The Story of Bruges by Ernest Gilliat-Smith

The Little Colorado River, and afterwards the Pecos River in New Mexico, I have often seen so thick with dead and dying cattle that a man might walk up and down the river on the bodies of these unfortunate creatures.
— from Ranching, Sport and Travel by Thomas Carson