Next night I passed as well.
— from Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Well then, quoth Rondibilis, let it be a neuter in physic, as when we say a body is neuter, when it is neither sick nor healthful, and a mean in philosophy; that, by an abnegation of both extremes, and this by the participation of the one and of the other.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

We found the steamboat in the canal, waiting for the slow process of getting through the lock, and went on board, where we shortly afterwards had a new kind of visitor in the person of a certain Kentucky Giant whose name is Porter, and who is of the moderate height of seven feet eight inches, in his stockings.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Beyond or behind this there is no intelligible principle; and we might, indeed, deem this perverseness a direct instigation of the Arch-Fiend, were it not occasionally known to operate in furtherance of good.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

'And if a daughter may ask,' said Leonora, 'what is the name of my father?' Stedfastly regarding her, he answered, 'Our name is Pellmelli.' 'And whither go we, my father?' 'That you shall see—as soon, that is, as the fog lifts, or as our representative has made interest with a gas company.'
— from He by Walter Herries Pollock

"Oh, dear," thought Meg, "married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says."
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

This same man, after failing through intimidation to elicit from me the names of our editorial contributors, against giving which he knew me to be pledged, beat himself weary upon me with a raw hide, I not resisting, and then pantingly threatened me with permanent disfiguring mayhem, if ever again I should introduce his name into print, and who but a few minutes before his attack upon me assured me that the only reason I was “permitted” to reach home alive on Wednesday evening last (at which time the PEOPLE’S TRIBUNE was issued) was, that he deems me only half-witted, and be it remembered the very next morning I was knocked down and kicked by a man who seemed to be prepared for flight.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

His narrative is perspicuous and where he can be free from a religious bias, the judgment of Spondanus is not contemptible.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Again, when an aneurism in some considerable artery has been obliterated, either artifically or by a natural inflammatory process; and when this artery has consequently ceased to be a channel for the blood; some of the adjacent arteries which anastomose with it become enlarged, so as to carry the needful quantity of blood to the parts supplied.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer

And herself? Was there no inward protest against what she was about to do?
— from Simon Eichelkatz; The Patriarch. Two Stories of Jewish Life by Ulrich Frank

The Hawaii Statehood Act of 1959 did not include Palmyra Atoll, which is now privately owned by the Nature Conservancy.
— from The 2002 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

Some one’s near, sweet-sounding voice answered him: “You are upon the earth, not in Paradise, and we have no need of wings—we fly wingless.”
— from The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub

[Pg 87] and liberty, were neglected by their countrymen, and suffered to die in obscurity, if not in poverty and want!
— from Rambles by Land and Water; or, Notes of Travel in Cuba and Mexico by Benjamin Moore Norman

Behold, in yon skies, This wild night is passing away while I speak: Lo, above us, the day-spring beginning to break!
— from Lucile by Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl of

Did not I pray and watch and fight for him?—and afterwards watch him drop back ?
— from The Claw by Cynthia Stockley

Finding no immediate movement on the part of his foes, Oglethorpe, with the whole force then at Frederica, except such as were absolutely necessary to man the batteries, returned to the late field of action, and when about half way met two platoons of his troops, with the great body of his Indians, who declared they had been broken by the whole Spanish force, which assailed them in the woods; and the enemy were now in pursuit, and would soon be upon them.
— from An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

DEAR CHAS: The night is passed and with the day comes "a hope" but during the blackness I had "a suffer"— I read until two—five hours—and then slept until five when the middle man who had slept on my shoulder all night left the train and the second one to whom Bernardi was so polite left me alone and had the porter fit me up a bed so that I slept until seven again— Then the Guardian Angel returned for his traps and I bade him a sleepy adieu and was startled to see two soldiers standing shading their eyes in salute in the doorway and two gentlemen bowing to my kind protector with the obsequiousness of servants— He sort of smiled back at me and walked away with the soldiers and 13 porters carrying his traps.
— from Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Richard Harding Davis