“You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,” said Scrooge.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

Now, with no disrespect to the good and learned Baron, is it not safe to say that any single philosopher, however wide his sympathies, must be just such a Bunsen in der Geschichte of the moral world, so soon as he attempts to put his own ideas of order into that howling mob of desires, each struggling to get breathing-room for the ideal to which it clings?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

'You would deprive them of their means of dining every seventh day, often the only day on which they can be said to dine at all,' said Scrooge; 'wouldn't you?'
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

I fancied she was jealous even of the saucepan on it; and I have reason to know that she took its impressment into the service of boiling my egg and broiling my bacon, in dudgeon; for I saw her, with my own discomfited eyes, shake her fist at me once, when those culinary operations were going on, and no one else was looking.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

His particularly free manner of dancing even surprised them all.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

And it's a cert there are special men on duty, ever since the death of that Chink.”
— from Tales of Chinatown by Sax Rohmer

mean or dishonorable, Espy,” she said, smiling up at him.
— from Signing the Contract, and What It Cost by Martha Finley

With this subordination of the Infinite to the infinitessimal, of intelligence to insensate matter, of divine energy, so to speak, to blind molecular force, they are satisfied; and, like the mole in the fable, conceive their little molecule to be the only possible creator of a stupendous universe.
— from Life: Its True Genesis by Horatius Flaccus

It was a moment of delightful excitement; some skill was required to avoid the hurtling forest of horns, but I turned round and gallopped with the mass; and having perfect confidence in my horse and horsemanship, I felt that I could pick out any of the animals I pleased.
— from The Bushman — Life in a New Country by Edward Wilson Landor

The method of drawing in line referred to in the two preceding chapters may be regarded as traditional and of the normal character, and we shall next take under consideration various other methods of drawing equally suitable for reproduction by line process.
— from A Handbook of Illustration by A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley) Hinton

She went down almost immediately and left Linda, in a maze of dim emotions, seated on one of the uncomfortable painted chairs.
— from Linda Condon by Joseph Hergesheimer

The ship was rushing along through a sea still agitated by the heavings of the past storm, and there was nothing moving on deck except some scattered seamen busy in their mysterious occupations.
— from A Son of the Soil by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant