I'll put on my old cockerel hat, and step along of you to Cap'n Trelawney, and report this here affair.
— from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson

The pitfalls which beset the path of the professional sorcerer are many, and as a rule only the man of coolest head and sharpest wit will be able to steer his way through them safely.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

1,430 c + 285 v + 285 s = 2,000 means of consumption Here, a surplus value of 570 s can be capitalised because from the very outset it consists in means of production.
— from The Accumulation of Capital by Rosa Luxemburg

Except me, of course," he added slyly.
— from Warrior of the Dawn by Howard Browne

I kept my own counsel, however, and said nothing; but when he sought his room, I went with him as you saw, and there for a whole hour we spoke of those we had left below.
— from Agincourt: A Romance The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Mamma, of course, had already seen them upstairs, before she saw us.
— from Peterkin by Mrs. Molesworth

It might be said that since a Polynesian sees no crime in adultery, revenge, murder, or cannibalism, his attributing such qualities to his gods cannot, from his point of view, be considered blasphemous.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

Many a minister of Christ has a similar experience; in the very performance of his public tasks there rests on his soul the conscious shadow of some private grief.
— from The Gospel of Luke, An Exposition by Charles Rosenbury Erdman

The undulations of the land are here very like the long roll of the ocean, by which it is supposed to have been formed, and you are at once in the midst of cattle, horses, and sheep, with grass and thistles growing everywhere, the thistles in many cases being masters of the situation.
— from Brazil and the River Plate in 1868 by William Hadfield

A friend of mine once called her a social pirate, and there is no doubt that her method of collecting the people whom she wants is to besiege them until they eventually surrender.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, May 6, 1914 by Various

But from that day she had no peace, for now her bad boys had got a means of coercing her, and she had to let them stay away from school and go where and do what they liked and to give them bread and butter and pasties at all hours of the day and whatever they asked for; for if she refused them anything they would say, "Then we'll go and get the eggs out of the hedge-sparrow's nest"; nor could she punish them for anything they did for the same reason.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson