This gulfweed, the swimming gulfweed or berry carrier, is the chief substance making up this immense shoal.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

——I will look at it. ” 221 Whilst all this was running through Mrs. Wadman ’s imagination, my uncle Toby had risen from the sopha, and got to the other side of the parlour door, to give Trim an order about it in the passage—— * * * * * * * * * * * * * *——I believe it is in the garret, said my uncle Toby ——I saw it there, an’ please your honour, this morning, answered Trim ——Then prithee, step directly for it, Trim, said my uncle Toby, and bring it into the parlour.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Matthew Maule understood the insinuated suspicion.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Shall we say, that anxious, slight, ineffectual-looking man, under thirty, in spectacles; his eyes ( were the glasses off ) troubled, careful; with upturned face, snuffing dimly the uncertain future-time; complexion of a multiplex atrabiliar colour, the final shade of which may be the pale sea-green.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

However, he made other signs to let me understand that I should have meat and drink enough, and very good treatment.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

My uncle Toby, I suppose, thought of neither, for he look'd horizontally.—Right end!
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But I was fond of Bloch; my parents wished me to be happy; and the insoluble problems which I set myself on such texts as the 'absolutely meaningless' beauty of La fille de Minos et de Pasiphaë tired me more and made me more unwell than I should have been after further talks with him, unwholesome as those talks might seem to my mother's mind.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Such, in spite of every perverting influence, in the most unheroic times, is still our indestructible reverence for heroism.—We will look a little at these Two, the Poet Dante and the Poet Shakspeare: what little it is permitted us to say here of the Hero as Poet will most fitly arrange itself in that fashion.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

The young Beguine, continued the corporal, perceiving it was of great service to me—from rubbing for some time, with two fingers—proceeded to rub at length, with three—till by little and little she brought down the fourth, and then rubb'd with her whole hand: I will never say another word, an' please your honour, upon hands again—but it was softer than sattin— —Prithee, Trim, commend it as much as thou wilt, said my uncle Toby; I shall hear thy story with the more delight—The corporal thank'd his master most unfeignedly; but having nothing to say upon the Beguine's hand but the same over again—he proceeded to the effects of it.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

O ‘17 10w “Full of interesting and suggestive topics—a work that will be even more useful to Indian students than to western readers of Indian history.
— from The Book Review Digest, Volume 13, 1917 Thirteenth Annual Cumulation Reviews of 1917 Books by Various

But we stirred not: We could not flee, who in the solemn act Of worship, and the ecstasy which comes To the believer's soul, saw heaven revealed, The mysteries unveiled, the inner sky
— from The Epic of Hades, in Three Books by Lewis Morris

"It is most unfortunate that it should have happened just now," she said, as I wrestled with one of those remarkable feminine knots that, while they seem to defy the utmost efforts of human ingenuity to untie, yet have a singular habit of untying themselves at inopportune moments.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman

Then, wheeling squarely about, and facing all the members of the section, he declared with emphasis: "If there's any more unauthorized talking I shall feel obliged to pass the word above that discipline is in a bad way in this section."
— from Dave Darrin's Second Year at Annapolis Or, Two Midshipmen as Naval Academy "Youngsters" by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock

"We might upset the inkstands," said another.
— from The Teacher Or, Moral Influences Employed in the Instruction and Government of the Young by Jacob Abbott

It is so ingrained in the race-consciousness by mouth-to-mouth utterance that it seems the profoundest of truths.
— from Jennie Gerhardt: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

The great multiplicity of mutually unintelligible tongues is still one of the characteristics of the parts in question.
— from Opuscula: Essays chiefly Philological and Ethnographical by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham