You must share it with her to-night, Jane: it is no wonder that the incident you have related should make you nervous, and I would rather you did not sleep alone: promise me to go to the nursery.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Did not see any person in the street at the time.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 by Edgar Allan Poe

Miss Crawford thought she had never seen a prettier consciousness.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

For the Cynics also seem to have thought that there were two branches of philosophy, as did Aristotle and Plato, namely speculative and practical, evidently because they had observed and understood that man is by nature suited both to action and to the pursuit of knowledge.
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 2 by Emperor of Rome Julian

I further believe, that this very slow, intermittent action of natural selection accords perfectly well with what geology tells us of the rate and manner at which the inhabitants of this world have changed.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

I would not send a poor girl into the world, unarmed against her foes, and ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself;—and as for my son—if I thought he would grow up to be what you call a man of the world—one that has “seen life,” and glories in his experience, even though he should so far profit by it as to sober down, at length, into a useful and respected member of society—I would rather that he died to-morrow!—rather a thousand times!’
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The sponge will gradually expand to its normal size and plug the sewage system.
— from Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States. Office of Strategic Services

Or Nagda, still a place of religious resort, about ten miles north of Udaipur.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

He never states abstract principles, but He acts as He deems fit and leaves us to infer His views by marking what He does.
— from Pastor Pastorum; Or, The Schooling of the Apostles by Our Lord by Henry Latham

With considerable difficulty he followed Lily up over the side, for his foot was now swollen and painful.
— from Tutors' Lane by W. S. (Wilmarth Sheldon) Lewis

When these things happened, Aunt Florence was called in as a matter of course; and she set the fractures, and salved the burns, and stopped the flow of sawdust, and proved herself in every way a most skillful nursery surgeon and physician.
— from Florence Nightingale, the Angel of the Crimea: A Story for Young People by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

For it was, with certain exceptions in German, the first "guide-book" novel: and though some of those exceptions may have shown greater 'literary genius than Madame de Staël's, the Germans, though they have, in certain lines, had no superiors as producers of tales, have never produced a good novel yet.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

$1.50 As the title indicates, the country school is the feature of the book which has suggested much of its plot, and the author has woven a delightful narrative, sensible and practical, and at the same time interesting and uplifting, which will be welcomed by the young people.— Congregationalist.
— from Teddy: Her Book A Story of Sweet Sixteen by Anna Chapin Ray

In the caravansary at Baratpoor there were a great number of natives, soldiers, and particularly some very rough-looking men, of whom I felt inclined to be afraid: I was no longer in the English territories, and alone among all these people.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer

NAN SHERWOOD AT PINE CAMP or The Old Lumberman's Secret NAN SHERWOOD
— from The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays by Laura Lee Hope

The sight of the river and the bridge he was nearing suggested a plan, and the ominous grating of the overheated motor warned him that whatever he was to do he must do at once.
— from The Mad King by Edgar Rice Burroughs

If the symbiote within his body provided him with more than normal strength and powers, it also demanded fuel on which to operate.
— from The Green Odyssey by Philip José Farmer