‘Of course the recollection of my last conversation with Brierly is tinged with the knowledge of his end that followed so close upon it.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Even as champions and wrestlers and such as practise the strength and agility of body are not only careful to retain a sound constitution of health, and to hold on their ordinary course of exercise, but sometimes also to recreate themselves with seasonable intermission, and esteem it as a main point of their practice; so I think it necessary for scholars and such as addict themselves to the study of learning, after they have travelled long in the perusal of serious authors, to relax a little the intention of their thoughts, that they may be more apt and able to endure a continued course of study.
— from Lucian's True History by of Samosata Lucian

The young men were all angry at the idea of corrupting the race, and one went so far as to revile and strike Nunez.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

As the chime struck one, Campbell turned round, and looking at Dorian Gray, saw that his eyes were filled with tears.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

[Clark, July 31, 1805] July 31st Tuesday 1805 a fair Morning Capt Lewis out all night, we arrived at his Camp to brackfast, he was without a blanket, & he killed a Duck whiche Suped on &c. the river as yesterday Sholey & rapid, passed the lower mouth of a Small river on the Lard.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Yea, such an excellency is there in this glass, that it will show Him to one where they [356] have a mind to see Him, whether living or dead, whether in earth or in heaven, whether in a state of lowliness or in His kingliness, whether coming to suffer or coming to reign.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

But there is also assuredly an atrocious form, that tortures one cruelly, the result of the occult blending of two unlike personalities who detest each other at the same time that they adore one another.”
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Ordinarily, however, cracks once commenced tend rather to increase than decrease in size and severity.
— from Diseases of the Horse's Foot by H. Caulton (Harry Caulton) Reeks

But I understand by free formations of nature those whereby from a fluid at rest , through the volatilisation or separation of a portion of its constituents (sometimes merely of caloric), the remainder in becoming solid assumes a definite shape or tissue (figure or texture), which is different according to the specific difference of the material, but in the same material is constant.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

When I say it professed to review all new publications, I should add, which should be sent to it; for, of course, the Review would not acknowledge the existence of publications, the authors of which did not acknowledge the existence of the Review.
— from Lavengro: The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest by George Borrow

It seemed to them quite astonishing what rough water could be taken in these little boats, and continually the temptation was, of course, to run a rapid rather than laboriously to disembark and line down alongshore.
— from The Young Alaskans on the Trail by Emerson Hough

The Indian could not force the horse to obey him, and the efforts of Cap to reach his master were defeated by the wrenching at the bit.
— from Cowmen and Rustlers: A Story of the Wyoming Cattle Ranges by Edward Sylvester Ellis

For example, the chlorate of potash consists of one atom of potash, an atom of chlorine, and five atoms of oxygen; if then an atom of cyanogen whose weight is 26, be put for the atom of chlorine, the result would be the cyanate of potash.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

The soul is saddened on contemplating those remains of grandeur and magnificence; and it is raised into indignation against the barbarians, who [Pg 39] dared to apply a sacrilegious hand to monuments, which time, the most pitiless of destroyers, would have respected."
— from Ruins of Ancient Cities (Vol. 1 of 2) With General and Particular Accounts of Their Rise, Fall, and Present Condition by Charles Bucke

He broke with the administration of his party under Jefferson on “the Yazoo business”—a bit of early official corruption that rivals anything disclosed in later times.
— from The Chautauquan, Vol. 04, January 1884 A Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Promotion of True Culture. Organ of the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. by Chautauqua Institution