Then came again that rolling noise like thunder which had awakened me out of torpor.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

“Milty Boulter has a dandy one, made out of the feathers his mother give him when she killed their old white gobbler.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Yet both of these are known by us, and the former by means only of the eye, the latter only by the ear; but not by their positive actuality, [526] but by their want of it.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

If the Prism was turned about its Axis that way which made the Rays emerge more obliquely out of the second refracting Surface of the Prism, the Image soon became an Inch or two longer, or more; and if the Prism was turned about the contrary way, so as to make the Rays fall more obliquely on the first refracting Surface, the Image soon became an Inch or two shorter.
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

As usual, Miss Osborne, owing to her moderate salary, was for securing a home engagement.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

If we engage into a large acquaintance and various familiarities, we set open our gates to the invaders of most of our time.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Whatever lifts a man out of the common herd always redounds to his advantage, even if it sink him into a new crowd, in the midst of which his powers of swimming and wading must be put to the test again.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

I have now moved still more out of the way.
— from The Letters of Jane Austen Selected from the compilation of her great nephew, Edward, Lord Bradbourne by Jane Austen

The next moment he heard the sound of hurrying footsteps, and, perceiving that the alarm had been given, he joined Odysseus, and mounting one of the horses seized the other by the bridle, and rode at a rapid trot towards the sea.
— from Stories from the Iliad by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

The peculiarity of carkey is that the dyer seems to be unable to match it in any two pieces, and that it exhibits endless varieties of shade, varying with every washing, so that the effect is rather various than pleasing on the march or on the parade-ground.
— from The History of the Indian Revolt and of the Expeditions to Persia, China and Japan, 1856-7-8 by George Dodd

I rode back and reported to General Lee that the column was hardly strong enough to mean aggressive work from that quarter, and at the same time reported a dust along the New Market road which seemed to indicate movement of other troops from Manassas.
— from From Manassas to Appomattox: Memoirs of the Civil War in America by James Longstreet

“Oh, sacrilegious heretic, we will be revenged on you some day,” muttered one of the priests, while the other hurled some curses at Nigel’s head, to which he did not stop to listen, remembering the proverb that “Curses, like birds, go home to roost at night.”
— from Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution by William Henry Giles Kingston

But tonight ye'll meet one or two chaps that'll be worth your while to ken.
— from Mr. Standfast by John Buchan

Literally she had accomplished a long space in a short time and her generation in raising in her honor the charming Gothic Cathedral at Marburg, one of the most {326} beautiful in Germany, was honoring itself nobly as well as her.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

I hate these great dinners——said my father—The size of the dinner is not the point, answered Yorick ——we want, Mr. Shandy , to dive into the bottom of this doubt, whether the name can be changed or not—and as the beards of so many commissaries, officials, advocates, proctors, registers, and of the most eminent of our school-divines, and others, are all to meet in the middle of one table, and Didius has so pressingly invited you—who in your distress would miss such an occasion?
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The above results, gathered from six months' operation of the plant, are a fair statement of what the same expenses will be found to be in the long run, although if it is desired to go into the matter still deeper, the same tabulation may be made covering a year, with practically the same results.
— from Cyclopedia of Commerce, Accountancy, Business Administration, v. 02 (of 10) by American School of Correspondence

I'll bet that in going towards the island he'll glance at the fragments of the Porpoise , and will know exactly what can be made out of them."
— from The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras by Jules Verne