A slight circumstance induced me to alter my usual route, and to return home by Egham and Bishopgate.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Mr. Utterson reflected; and then, raising his head, "If you will come with me in my cab," he said, "I think I can take you to his house."
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Had my uncle really and truly gone mad?
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

When in her presence, I was only content; when absent, my uneasiness reached almost to melancholy, and a wish to live with her gave me emotions of tenderness even to tears.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They would watch the poor creatures at their meals, making uncivil remarks about their food, and their manner of eating; they would laugh at their simple notions and provincial expressions, till some of them scarcely durst venture to speak; they would call the grave elderly men and women old fools and silly old blockheads to their faces: and all this without meaning to offend.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

The constituents of the Self may be divided into two classes, those which make up respectively— ( a ) The material Self; ( b ) The social Self; ( c ) The spiritual Self; and ( d )
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The great law of habit itself—that twenty experiences make us recall a thing better than one, that long indulgence in error makes right thinking almost impossible—seems to have no essential foundation in reason.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Mr. Utterson reflected; and then, raising his head, “If you will come with me in my cab,” he said, “I think I can take you to his house.”
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

In this cablegram the Admiral most unfortunately repeated as true some wild rumors then currently accepted by the Europeans and Americans at Manila which of course were impossible of verification.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Granting, however, as all must, that most if not all of the earlier of the Fathers, and certainly all the later ones, rightly or wrongly interpreted the word stauros as meaning something cross-shaped, let us, remembering that this does not dispose of the question whether they rightly or wrongly so interpreted it, in this and the next two chapters pass in review the references to the cross made by the Fathers Page 33 who lived before Constantine's march upon Rome at the head of his Gaulish army.
— from The Non-Christian Cross An Enquiry into the Origin and History of the Symbol Eventually Adopted as That of Our Religion by John Denham Parsons

And when in the presence of pure grace and truth all such perverseness stands revealed; then the beauty of a quiet modesty, as it respects all worthy majesty, will make supremely plain the ugliness of every form of insolence; then the life that opens towards perpetual dawn will most mightily and forevermore reproach the life that feasts upon corroding food, fattening and hardening towards decay; then outpouring, patient love will visit on ingratitude and hate their most unbearable rebuke; and then the radiant light of simple truth and pure sincerity will set all falsity and unbelief in uttermost disgrace.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee

He added many unpleasant remarks about the Reformers.
— from A Woman's Part in a Revolution by Natalie Harris Hammond

I have found Chickadee nesting in live white oaks, maples, upturned roots, and tumbling fence-posts.
— from Winter by Dallas Lore Sharp

Give good books to those dear novices to read, so that their minds may be filled with profitable food wherewith to make useful reflection, and to undeceive themselves as to the value of the false maxims of the world.
— from Selected Letters of Saint Jane Frances de Chantal by Chantal, Jeanne-Françoise de, Saint

It was not uncommon for some of the Continental guests, in the presence of the court ladies, to make uncomplimentary remarks about the food, which was Chinese, and often not very palatable to the foreigner.
— from Court Life in China: The Capital, Its Officials and People by Isaac Taylor Headland

Invitations have been extended to the cabinets of London, Paris, Florence, Berlin, Brussels, The Hague, Copenhagen, and Stockholm to empower their representatives at Washington to simultaneously enter into negotiations and to conclude with the United States conventions identical in form, making uniform regulations as to the construction of the parts of vessels to be devoted to the use of emigrant passengers, as to the quality and quantity of food, as to the medical treatment of the sick, and as to the rules to be observed during the voyage, in order to secure ventilation, to promote health, to prevent intrusion, and to protect the females; and providing for the establishment of tribunals in the several countries for enforcing such regulations by summary process.
— from State of the Union Addresses by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant