[Pg 42] ‘O thou who art through this Inferno led, [279] 40 Me if thou canst,’ he asked me, ‘recognise; For ere I was dismantled thou wast made.’
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Leaving Mary in the cabin, he accompanied me on deck, and we instantly set to work to get the hatches off.
— from Peter the Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

Thus, placing down or other light substances near the mouth or nose; laying a vessel of water on the chest, as an index of motion in that cavity; holding a mirror before the mouth, in order to condense the watery vapour of the breath; have all been proposed and employed, but they are all liable to fallacy.
— from A supplementary report on the results of a special inquiry into the practice of interment in towns. by Edwin Chadwick

That the most striking spots are found to the west of large dark areas may in this connection have a meaning inasmuch as, such regions being vegetation-covered, the air over them is probably more moisture-laden.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell

Poor Mary in the chilly house at Marlow, with her three-weeks-old baby, her strength far from re-established, and her house full of guests, who made themselves quite at home, was not likely to take the most sanguine view of affairs.
— from The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume 1 (of 2) by Marshall, Julian, Mrs.

Perhaps, moreover, the major was of the opinion of those ancient writers who seemed to deem it more important to consider how a man lives than how he dies.
— from Roden's Corner by Henry Seton Merriman

Few men in the country have amassed more statistical material than Mr. Williams, and none have spread it before the public with more accuracy.
— from Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman by William L. (William Leete) Stone

After she had sat motionless in the cold hall a minute or two, she tested herself.
— from Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson

He is simply undeveloped; and the mistake he makes is to consider himself a man of the world.
— from The Silent Isle by Arthur Christopher Benson

Monday came, Clarendon saw me as I was going out, and, as he handed me into the carriage, he asked me where I was going.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth