For a moment I thought that he might have some homicidal intent; I remembered how quiet he had been just before he attacked me in my own study, and I took care to stand where I could seize him at once if he attempted to make a spring at her.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

In America cold meat is more often sliced and laid on a platter garnished with finely chopped meat jelly and water cress or parsley.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

It is also a great impediment, that much is made of symbols and external signs, and too little of thorough mortification.
— from The Imitation of Christ by à Kempis Thomas

Mela appears to refer to this opinion in the following passage, where he is describing the Ida of Asia Minor; “ipse mens ... orientem solem aliter quam in aliis terris solet aspici, ostentat.”
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

I was interested in myself, in my own soul, and I did not want to accept something that was outside of myself, such as the life of a shopman behind a counter, or that of a clerk of the petty sessions, or the habit of a policeman.
— from The Lake by George Moore

He told her how long he had been a professor, what pains he had taken, what hazards he had run, in his youthful days, to get to meetings; how, when the ways were forelaid and passages stopped, he swam through rivers to reach a meeting; and now, said he, that I am grown old in the profession of religion, and have long been an instructor and encourager of others, that I should thus shamefully fall short myself, is matter of shame and sorrow to me.
— from The History of Thomas Ellwood Written By Himself by Thomas Ellwood

In the course of things I would have married in my own set a charming, irreproachable girl—a spoiled child, with entirely too much money—and settled down to the weary task of warding off boredom.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

The terms were quickly arranged on a fifty-fifty basis; but the more important matter of selecting a name required some little time and a great deal of discussion.
— from Sube Cane by Bellamy Partridge

To the latter course objections have been made; but objections which to me, I must own, seem altogether frivolous.
— from Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 4 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Music is made on such an instrument by holding it so that that part of the gourd where the aperture is, is pressed against the naked breast, and then twanging on the string with a small stick.
— from Kafir Stories: Seven Short Stories by W. C. (William Charles) Scully

A large mouth in mine opinion, and not to eat peason with Ladies of my time, besides that if occasion serued, it was able to receiue the whole bodies of mo than one of the greatest men, I meane of such as we be in our daies.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison