yet we must be sold up to pay it, and there's my poor children,–eight of 'em, and the little un of all can't speak plain.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The presence of yonder dead man threw a great black shadow over everything; he made the universe, so far as my perception could reach, a scene of guilt and of retribution more dreadful than the guilt.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Or why would Red Colin be riding his horse all over my poor country of Appin, and never a pretty lad to put a bullet in him?”
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

Mrs. Poyser curtsied and thanked him with great self-command, but when he had passed on, she whispered to her husband, “I'll lay my life he's brewin' some nasty turn against us.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Here age and freshness again play a rôle; in fact, a double rôle, as the older and tougher vegetables contain not only less antiscorbutic, but require more prolonged cooking.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

He was so strong that it was said he could throw a corn mortar over a house, and with his magic power could clear a river at one jump.
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

Cautele , sb. caution, deceit, MD, Prompt.; cawtele , S3; cautel , ND, Sh.—OF. cautele ( cautelle ); Lat.
— from A Concise Dictionary of Middle English from A.D. 1150 to 1580 by A. L. (Anthony Lawson) Mayhew

This great master painter could whistle like a blackbird.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

They broke into the car and, in spite of my protestations, carried off box after box of supplies.
— from History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. by Willis Fletcher Johnson

After a long search in the fields after that chaste architectural animal, my boy, he met a Missouri picket chap, and says he: "Hev you seen a horse hereabout, my whisky-doodle?" "Hoss!" says Missouri, spitting with exquisite precision on one of De Mortimer's new boots.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

The bank swung out widely above the Terrace, so that Stephen's house and its neighbour were on a miniature promontory, commanding unobstructed the ample curve of the river to Hammersmith Bridge, a mile away.
— from The House by the River by A. P. (Alan Patrick) Herbert

CHILDREN'S STORIES FROM SCOTT BY DORIS ASHLEY ILLUSTRATED BY HAROLD C. EARNSHAW The histories of Sir Walter Scott's most popular characters condensed into short stories, and thus adapted as an interesting introduction to the Scott classics, so worthily considered a part of the education of every up-to-date boy and girl.
— from My Book of Favourite Fairy Tales by Edric Vredenburg

It seems to me that Moral Philosophy cannot be merely a department of Psychology.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

Yet the exhibition of the 'law working in the members' seems to have its weak side so long as we look to individual men, in whom there are many conflicting influences, and many personal chances and difficulties, which obscure the relation between just action and happiness.
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall

However, the most probable cause of their erection was to serve as places of refuge, for these island homes would necessarily provide safety and protection; indeed such, in their later or historical existence, was undoubtedly the cause of their continuous occupation.
— from The Lake Dwellings of Ireland Or ancient lacustrine habitations of Erin, commonly called crannogs. by W. G. (William Gregory) Wood-Martin

Yet in detail it is lovely; it is finished and strangely mighty; it is a lyric in stone, the most poetical chamber, perhaps, in the whole of Egypt.
— from The Spell of Egypt by Robert Hichens

In regard to the influence of medicine on population, can it be expected, that when the most fatal pestilences do not thin it, the most erroneous medical practice can be more destructive?
— from Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen

They take it up thus, as if it were nothing but a proclamation of freedom from misery, from death and damnation; and so the most part catch at nothing else in it, and from thence take liberty to walk after their former lusts and courses.
— from The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning