Whereupon the others, mad with envy, rise up, and seizing as much of the dog as the greed of the first one has left to them, murmur praise and devotion.
— from The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

What I am afraid of is that when the news of this horrible massacre of eight thousand people at Tripolitza gets known, the Turks in Asia Minor will everywhere retaliate upon the Greeks settled among them.
— from In Greek Waters: A Story of the Grecian War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

She can't get over your discharging Mr. Kalomel —he is the only man who ever really understood her.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 18, 1893 by Various

And when this stage is reached, men will either refine upon the suffering with frantic intensity, as they did in Mexico, or, if the sentiment of humanity has made itself felt in religion, as was the case in Peru and in the special worship of Quetzalcoatl, they will try to restrain the number and mitigate the horror of the human sacrifices, while still inflexibly maintaining the principle they involve.
— from Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by the Native Religions of Mexico and Peru by Albert Réville

Frank, courteous, manly, brave, he had won all hearts; and his sudden removal from our companionship, at that moment, will ever remind us of the great price with which that morning's success was bought.
— from History of the Thirty-sixth Regiment Massachusetts Volunteers. 1862-1865 by Alonzo A. White

It is impossible here to do more than indicate the kind of modification which Egyptian religion underwent.
— from Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Andrew Lang

To withdraw myself from myself (oh that cursed selfishness!) has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all; and publishing is also the continuance of the same object, by the action it affords to the mind, which else recoils upon itself.
— from Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore

In Australia Scotch thistles, English sparrows, and rabbits, three most unfortunate importations, have multiplied with equal rapidity until serious alarm fills the minds of the colonists.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan

He was not called upon to tell his story again, because his conductor did that for him; and the details of the narrative were magnified with each repetition, until Dick believed it absolutely necessary he should contradict certain portions wherein he was depicted as a hero of the first class.
— from Dick in the Desert by James Otis

"Well—I have discovered that you and Henry Banfield are friends—that to you he owes much of his success, and that to you is the credit of a little affair in Marienbad, which ended rather unpleasantly for a certain hosiery manufacturer from Chemnitz named Müller."
— from Spies of the Kaiser: Plotting the Downfall of England by William Le Queux