However, if I were a man I should prefer Celia, especially when Dorothea was gone.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

It is true that man, in some physical characteristics resembles the beast, but man has a mind as well as a body, and a soul as well as a mind.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

a musical instrument (stringed), Prompt., Cath., Voc.; crouthe , MD; croud , H; croude (= chorus ), W, H; crowd , ND; crouth , MD.—Wel. crwth , a fiddle: Ir. cruit : OIr. crot ; cp.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

But I refused, as I now wished to get away by the first train; but she took me by the arm and pulled me in, saying: “Please, come in; I must tell her that you have been in here.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

On the Monday morning I saw P—— C——, who confirmed the appointment for the same hour, and at the place previously agreed upon, and I was there in good time.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Discutit Sol horrorem crassi spiritus, mentem exhilarat, non enim tam corpora, quam et animi mutationem inde subeunt, pro coeli et ventorum ratione, et sani aliter affecti sini coelo nubilo, aliter sereno.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If we content ourselves with merely affirming that the faculty of memory is so peculiarly constituted by nature as to exhibit just these oddities, we seem little the better for having invoked it, for our explanation becomes as complicated as that of the crude facts with which we started.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

On this assumption then it seems likely that myth was originally the invention of men given to pastoral pursuits, and from that day to this the making of myths is still peculiarly cultivated by them, just as they first invented instruments of music, the flute and the lyre, for their pleasure and entertainment.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

You often ask me, love, how much I love you, Bidding my fancy find An answer to your mind; I say: "Past count, as there are stars above you."
— from A Jongleur Strayed Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane by Richard Le Gallienne

IV Fragmentary, Out of the Past, Down the long aisles of the Centuries, Uncertain at first and uneasy, Hesitant, harsh of expression, My song was heard, Stammering, appealing, A murmur merely: Coherent then, Singing into form, Assertive, Ecstatic, Louder, lovelier, and more insistent, Sonorous, proclaiming; Clearer and surer and stronger.
— from The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy by Madison Julius Cawein

The whole of the plain of Merdasht , the hollow Persis of the ancients, as well as the part more immediately surrounding Persepolis , contained, as Chardin believed, a continued succession of ruins; “Je southaiterois que quelque habile curieux allât passer un eté a Persepolis , à la decouverte de toutes les ruines de cette fameuse ville.
— from A Journey through Persia, Armenia, and Asia Minor, to Constantinople, in the Years 1808 and 1809 In Which is Included, Some Account of the Proceedings of His Majesty's Mission, under Sir Harford Jones, Bart. K. C. to the Court of Persia by James Justinian Morier

"And when I heard its cry," said Mona, "its strange, pitiful cry as it awoke from that mystery, a baby's troubled dream, and looked into its red startled eyes and into its little face, all liquid grief, and said, 'It's only a dream, darling,' the thought has sometimes stolen up to my heart that perhaps some evil spirit had whispered to it the story of its shame—for what else had it to cry about so bitterly?"
— from She's All the World to Me by Caine, Hall, Sir

The supreme moment, however, was when Sam-Chaong and more than a hundred of the priests most distinguished for learning and piety in the whole of the church, marched in solemn procession, chanting a litany, and took their places on the raised platform from which they were to conduct the service for the dead.
— from Chinese Folk-Lore Tales by J. (John) Macgowan

But their thoughts about themselves, and their joy at meeting in such peculiar circumstances, had to be repressed to some extent in the presence of their common friend Ralph Ritson— alias Buck Tom—for Charlie knew him only as an old school-fellow, though to Leather he had been a friend and chum ever since they had landed in the New World.
— from Charlie to the Rescue by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne