It may be noted that, in the Canarese country, a custom obtains among the Bēdars and some other castes, under which a family which has no male issue must dedicate [ 143 ] one of its daughters as a Basavi.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston

“Now,” said Monte Cristo, turning towards Morrel, “I may depend upon you, may I not?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It would appear likely that some parts of our psychological warfare actually lengthened the war and made it more difficult to win.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

[2707] At Cadurcum, in Aquitaine, words and sentences are repeated by a strange echo to the full, or whatsoever you shall play upon a musical instrument, more distinctly and louder, than they are spoken at first.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

After all this was done the whole was filled with water, in order that the fluid, by penetrating into the most minute interstices, might deposit a sediment which would close them more surely and perfectly than it would be possible to do by hand.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

“Why, massa, I mean de bug—dare now.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I have no objection to discuss all these points with you; but you will in the meantime confess that prescribing to me so positively what I ought to do, without first enabling yourself to judge of the matter, is, my dear philosopher, acting very inconsiderately.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

After this beginning, which gained her close attention, I told her all the circumstances of the case, neither concealing the young lady’s name nor any of the circumstances which made it my duty to watch over her welfare.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

But [Pg 35] no good angel of pity came to my bedside, bidding me to fly—no voice of mercy forewarned me in my dreams of the trials that were just at hand.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

In the meantime I must deal with friends who tell me that, though the future is fixed as regards inorganic matter, and in some respects with regard to man, yet that there are many ways in which it cannot be considered as fixed.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

“You may imagine, my dear nephews, the effect of this news upon your unfortunate uncle!
— from The Mercy of Allah by Hilaire Belloc

Woman seems to differ from man in mental disposition, chiefly in her greater tenderness and less selfishness; and this holds good even with savages, as shewn by a well-known passage in Mungo Park’s Travels, and by statements made by many other travellers.
— from The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, Vol. II (1st Edition) by Charles Darwin

But I shall not enlarge upon this method in my discourse, but shall shew you the manner of the ruin of Antichrist, with respect to the gradualness thereof (Eze 16:36-43; Rev 18:8; Isa 47:9).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

I will only say that I cannot allow the personal convenience of even a large class of ladies to influence me in my determination to make Memphis a safe place of operations for an army, and all people who are unfriendly should forthwith prepare to depart in such direction as I may hereafter indicate.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Still there are objections to even so partial a publication as I have shadowed forth which make it most desirable that we should have an opportunity of giving the matter our fullest consideration.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 108, May 18th, 1895 by Various

The whole range, after twice subsiding some thousands of feet, was brought up again by a slow movement in mass, during the era of the Eocene tertiary formations, after which the whole sank down once more several hundred feet, to be again uplifted to its present level by a slow and often interrupted movement.
— from Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology by Lyell, Charles, Sir

I shall never forbid you to do anything, Mona, if my doing so must bring that look into your eyes.
— from Mrs. Geoffrey by Duchess

Moncada's fortune will enable me to allow five thousand pounds to the friend who should aid me in my difficulties.”
— from The Surgeon's Daughter by Walter Scott

I exhausted myself in my desperate efforts, but I would not ask for quarter.
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint