Often while walking abroad, when he happened also to come out of himself, he had such moments of dreadful and sane mistrust of mankind.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

If we will examine it, we shall not find, I suppose, the motion of dull and senseless matter, any where in the universe, made so little use of and so wholly thrown away.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Don’t call me out, Dick, and shoot me.
— from Draw Swords! In the Horse Artillery by George Manville Fenn

Shrewd lawyers were put upon his track; he was ferretted out, until, discouraged, he came to me one day, and said,– “‘Mary, the hounds are after me from morning till night.
— from The Cabin on the Prairie by C. H. (Charles Henry) Pearson

, Rhode Island, and Connecticut combined, and received therefor five millions of dollars and seven millions of acres of land west of the Mississippi.
— from A Century of Dishonor A Sketch of the United States Government's Dealings with Some of the Indian Tribes by Helen Hunt Jackson

On the greater variability of the males of domesticated animals, see my 'Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication,' vol.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

I believe it must have relief: as if all animal functions were accelerated by means of light, bold, unfettered, self-reliant rhythms, as if brazen and leaden life could lose its weight by means of delicate and smooth melodies.
— from The Case of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The girls were not used to this phenomenon, and did not understand it; but at last, after hesitating and doubting, and consulting each other by glances, Agnes made {v.1-189} a shy movement of departure, and said Mamma would be anxious, and they should have to go away.
— from The Athelings; or, the Three Gifts. Complete by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The birds themselves were indifferent in the matter of domicile, and spent most of the day and all the night on the Toppans' land.
— from The Believing Years by Edmund Lester Pearson

“I have received the message of death, and soon must my name be blotted out from among the living.”
— from Grace O'Malley, Princess and Pirate by Robert Machray

His vanity flattered, the gentleman addressed flung himself into the breach with every manifestation of delight, and, seizing my brother-in-law by the arm, haled him gleefully in the direction of The High, humouring his obvious reluctance with the familiar assurances which one usually associates with the persuasion of the unsober.
— from Berry and Co. by Dornford Yates