That our ancestors thought similarly, the movement of the nose, especially raising it and blowing and sniffing, makes evident.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

But some say that this is not an imitation of terror, but of eagerness, and that this is the reason of it: after the Gauls had captured Rome and been driven out by Camillus, and the city through weakness did not easily recover itself, an army of Latins, under one Livius Postumius, marched upon it.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

Neither, by their report, had his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied, any—the slightest—connexion on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne had so long worn the scarlet letter.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

They told our colleagues what had been settled respecting my proposition, and of the rendezvous at the Salle Roysin; only it appears that there was some doubt regarding the hour agreed upon, and that Baudin in particular did not exactly remember it, and that our colleagues believed that the rendezvous, which had been fixed for nine o'clock in the morning, was fixed for eight.
— from The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo

“Your signs,” said he, “are very good inasmuch as they clearly and simply determine the length of notes, exactly represent intervals, and show the simple in the double note, which the common notation does not do; but they are objectionable on account of their requiring an operation of the mind, which cannot always accompany the rapidity of execution.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Neither, by their report, had his dying words acknowledged, nor even remotely implied, any, the slightest connection, on his part, with the guilt for which Hester Prynne had so long worn the scarlet letter.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Your heart has received a severe shock; you believe you can never entirely recover it, and you will encourage this belief, till the habit of indulging sorrow will subdue the strength of your mind, and discolour your future views with melancholy and regret.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

"Vy, I vould not efen ride in an outer-mobile, yet, so vy should I go in von contrivance vot is efen more dangerous?
— from Tom Swift and His Sky Racer; Or, The Quickest Flight on Record by Victor Appleton

"I thought he might be somewhere near," explained Regie, "in a tree or something," looking up into the little yew.
— from Red Pottage by Mary Cholmondeley

Italics are problematic because they are not easily rendered in ASCII text.
— from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

I confess, my dear sir, that were I a young man, with no early religious impressions and about to decide on the truth or falsehood of revelation, I fear I should be strongly tempted to believe that a religion such as it is practically exhibited by your cotton-parsons could not and did not proceed from a just and benevolent being.
— from William Jay and the Constitutional Movement for the Abolition of Slavery by Bayard Tuckerman

If, on the contrary, there is much displacement, and if that is not entirely removed, intense action ensues both in the soft and hard parts, there is great effusion of new matter, or callus, soft and yielding at first, but gradually becoming hard and dense—bony particles being deposited from the vessels ramifying in the extremities, or in the attached fragments, of the old bone.
— from Elements of Surgery by Robert Liston

The text of the edition of 1772, which is now exceedingly rare, is as follows: A POEM ON THE RISING GLORY OF AMERICA Being an Exercise delivered at the Public Commencement at Nassau-Hall, September 25, 1771.
— from The Poems of Philip Freneau, Poet of the American Revolution. Volume 1 (of 3) by Philip Morin Freneau

But, as we know that, in regions less remote from Rome, Mona did not always mean the Isle of Man, nor Ultima Thule uniformly the Isle of Skye or of St Kilda—so it is pretty evident that features belonging to Sumatra, and probably to other oriental islands, blended (through mutual misconceptions of the parties, questioned and questioning) into one semi-fabulous object not entirely realized in any locality whatever.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 by Various

He is a dram-drinker; and the poison that he imbibes with New England rum is as fatal, and nearly as rapid in its destruction, as strikline.
— from Nature and Human Nature by Thomas Chandler Haliburton

In the utmost perplexity, he was resolving in his own mind what next step to take—how, and how much he ought to tell of his anxieties to her father—when all difficulties were solved in the sharpest and yet easiest way by a letter from Helen herself—a letter so unlike Helen's, so un-neat, blurred, and blotted, that at first he did not even recognize it as hers.
— from A Noble Life by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

"Oh, no, no!" exclaimed Ralph; "I attend to all those things,—at least, when we have no servant."
— from The Girl at Cobhurst by Frank Richard Stockton