In every other direction around was wedged as closely as possible, even up to the ceiling, a complete chaos of almost every species of ship-furniture, together with a heterogeneous medley of crates, hampers, barrels, and bales, so that it seemed a matter no less than miraculous that we had discovered any passage at all to the box.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The fat knight has his moods of melancholy, and the young prince his moments of coarse humour.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

Irù ray ákung kaúban dinhi, A dog is my only companion here.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

To quit the neighbourhood of Norland was no longer an evil; it was an object of desire; it was a blessing, in comparison of the misery of continuing her daughter-in-law's guest; and to remove for ever from that beloved place would be less painful than to inhabit or visit it while such a woman was its mistress.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

And therefore, in mine opinion, cannot have it.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

414, 469 Habit, Chapter IV : due to plasticity of brain-matter, I. 105 ; depends on paths in nerve-centres, 107 ; origination of, 109-13 ; mechanism of concatenated habits, 114-8 ; they demand some sensation, 118 ; ethical and pedagogic maxims, 121-7 ; is the ground of association, 566 ; of memory, 655 Habits may inhibit instincts, II. 394; Habit accounts for one large part of our knowledge, 632 Hall, G. S., I. 96-7 , 558 , 614 , 616 ; II. 155, 247, 281, 423 Hallucination, sensation a veridical, II.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The revolution itself must, of course, have taken place in an easy and gradual manner, and it is by no means clear that, had I even been awake at the time of the occurrence, I should have been made aware of it by any internal evidence of an inversion—that is to say, by any inconvenience or disarrangement, either about my person or about my apparatus.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

The members of council have only the responsibility of advisers; but it is always known, from documents capable of being produced, and which, if called for by Parliament or public opinion always are produced, what each has advised, and what reasons he gave for his advice; while, from their dignified position, and ostensible participation in all acts of government, they have nearly as strong motives to apply themselves to the public business, and to form and express a well-considered opinion on every part of it, as if the whole responsibility rested with themselves.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Their incapacity and discord would have afforded the most decisive advantage; but the civil war was protracted by the weakness of both parties; and the moderation of Cantacuzene has not escaped the reproach of timidity and indolence.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Czar’s manner of celebrating his victory was at once generous and savage.
— from Kings-at-Arms by Marjorie Bowen

53 Having ascertained that the enemy was present in great strength on the further bank, that every road was obstructed, and that there was no means of carrying his artillery over the creek, or favourable ground on which his infantry could act, Jackson gave up all hope of aiding Longstreet.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson

He summarized all that he really knew about her: simply that she was a widow when she married Chantelouve, that she had no children, that her first husband, a manufacturer of chasubles, had, for unknown reasons, committed suicide.
— from Là-bas by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

In the majority of cases he even chooses a very early phase of his life, sometime a childhood phase, indeed, laughable as it may appear, a phase of his very suckling existence.
— from A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud

But when he had been nearly a week at the deanery, and when the day of his going was so near as to be a matter of concern, his sister did at last venture to say a word about Lucy.
— from The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope

The measure of curiosity had been filled: the throne was occupied by tyrants and Barbarians, the active spirits were diverted by religious disputes, and the professors of Rome, Constantinople, and Berytus, were humbly content to repeat the lessons of their more enlightened predecessors.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

To their anxious questions he replied that Major Tireson had been arrested with the old man of Clanhammer Hall just as he was about to step on a train for New York City.
— from The Mercer Boys at Woodcrest by Capwell Wyckoff

About the same season also pope Innocent confirmed the authoritie and power which the prior and moonks of Canturburie had to elect and choose the archbishop of that sée, giuing sentence against the suffragans which claimed a right to be ioined with the said prior and moonks in the election, as by a letter directed to the same suffragans from the said pope it may more plainelie appeare.
— from Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (07 of 12) Iohn the Yongest Sonne of Henrie the Second by Raphael Holinshed