And yet, strangely enough, I lived in a continual, indefinite, pining fear; tremulous, pusillanimous, apprehensive of I knew not what; it seemed as if all things in the Heavens above and the Earth beneath would hurt me; as if the Heavens and the Earth were but boundless jaws of a devouring monster, wherein I, palpitating, waited to be devoured.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

The flock, without a shepherd, was assaulted by the power of the Portuguese, the arts of the Jesuits, and the zeal of Alexis de Menezes, archbishop of Goa, in his personal visitation of the coast of Malabar.
— 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

'Then all I have to say is,' returns Podsnap, putting the thing away with his right arm, 'that my gorge rises against such a marriage—that it offends and disgusts me—that it makes me sick—and that I desire to know no more about it.' ('Now I wonder,' thinks Mortimer, amused, 'whether you are the Voice of Society!') 'Hear, hear, hear!'
— from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens

“However,” I added, “I have come to see you on a different matter.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

“Nothing shall be done without the full approbation of Albert de Morcerf.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

I cannot too severely censure the habit of using sentences which admit of a double meaning.
— from The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society by Florence Hartley

Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster, North.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

The whole of that week he experienced a sensation such as a man might have set in charge of a dangerous madman, afraid of the madman, and at the same time, from being with him, fearing for his own reason.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

On reaching the gate the captain of the post advanced at the head of a dozen men, holding a lantern in his hand.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

The cavalry escort consisted of a dozen men from the Military Train, a corps which went by the honorary title of "Pig-drivers," and at their head was a lieutenant, a good, harmless sort of fellow, whose only weakness was for fine uniforms and showy horses.
— from A Diplomat in Japan The inner history of the critical years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored, recorded by a diplomatist who took an active part in the events of the time, with an account of his personal experiences during that period by Ernest Mason Satow

'Rather to do nothing than to do good is the lowest state of a degraded mind,' iv.
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 6 Addenda, index, dicta philosophi, etc. by James Boswell

The temptation was more urgent, strenuous than ever, but he was conscious of a deeper, more dogged spirit of resistance within him than ever, as well.
— from Seth's Brother's Wife: A Study of Life in the Greater New York by Harold Frederic

In the same work [Pg 44] is given a picture of a dog, muzzled and with a biliary fistula, as it appeared the fourteenth day after the operation, which, with details of the experiment, is quite suggestive.
— from Vivisection by Albert Leffingwell

All the feathers of the upper parts and wings of a dull metallic olivaceous-green, broadly edged with white near the end.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway

"Olga, stop capering," he ordered, "and drive me home."
— from The Way of an Eagle by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

"I wonder if there be indeed a quiet spot on earth where I can hide; a sacred refuge, where neither nightingale nor human lovers will vex my soul, or again disturb my peace with their eternal madrigals?"
— from Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans

He told them that in the sight of all different men, and in the sense of the laws of society, they had lived all this while in an open adultery; and that it was true that nothing but the consenting to marry, or effectually separating them
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1808) by Daniel Defoe

The front which we saw was in the square of the little town of Haelen, where some dogs of a dog machine-gun battery lay panting in their traces.
— from My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer