At the top was a twisted and interlaced monogram printed from steel dies in gold and blue and red, in the ornate English fashion of long years ago; and under it, in neat gothic capitals was this—printed in blue: THE MARK TWAIN CLUB CORRIGAN CASTLE ............
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

He pointed to his manuscript book with that air of escaping from the ills of life with which unhappy people look at their work.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Early on the morning of the 25th the enemy assaulted our lines in front of the 9th corps (which held from the Appomattox River towards our left), and carried Fort Stedman, and a part of the line to the right and left of it, established themselves and turned the guns of the fort against us, but our troops on either flank held their ground until the reserves were brought up, when the enemy was driven back with a heavy loss in killed and wounded, and one thousand nine hundred prisoners.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The idea of elevated road is developed into the idea of difficulty of locating station, length of time occupied on the journey, distance of station at the other end from place to be reached.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Moreover, he was regular, and never went out except for well-demonstrated requirements of the orchard and vegetable garden.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

This bold experiment upon the discernment of his countrymen has been hazarded by a writer who (whatever may be his real merit) has had no inconsiderable share in the applauses of his party(1); and who, upon this false and unfounded suggestion, has built a series of observations equally false and unfounded.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Even at the present day it is mainly confined to the streets, in the sense of employment for a short time.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

The heart may be rapid for months or even for years after the disorder, and tachycardia may develop on the occasion of even a mild infectious disease.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

If this be an ordered selfishness, then we should pause before we condemn any one for the vice of egoism, for there may be deeper root for its causes than we have knowledge of.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Our dainty fare was often exchanged for blows and imprisonment.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

It contained no statue, nor any other object of worship, except in the center of its floor the circular altar on which burned the sacred fire, solemnly extinguished and ceremonially rekindled on each first of March, the New Year’s day of the primitive Roman Calendar, but which must never at any other time be permitted to go out, upon whose continual burning depended the prosperity of Rome, according to the belief implicitly held by all Romans from the earliest days until Brinnaria’s time, and for centuries after.
— from The Unwilling Vestal by Edward Lucas White

25 Churchill, who, confident in his powers, drunk with popularity, and burning with party spirit, was looking for some man of established fame and Tory politics to insult, celebrated the Cock Lane Ghost in three cantos, nicknamed Johnson Pomposo, asked where the book was which had been so long 30 promised and so liberally paid for, and directly accused the great moralist of cheating.
— from Macaulay's Life of Samuel Johnson, with a Selection from his Essay on Johnson by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Seth therefore stood by the truth of God, a long time, without much help or encouragement from man; which was a great trial to his spirit, and proof of the truth of his faith, and tended much to the perfection of his patience.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

The hour was too composed, spell-bound, for grief or anxiety or even for close perception.
— from The Trespasser by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

The whole mighty countenance seemed to contain a heaven of sublime peace, and to be radiant with a happiness unknown to the human breast on earth, for man has suffered and suffers.
— from Mohammed Ali and His House by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

And these three forms of poetry ascend to God, in whom all passion on earth finds its end.
— from The Duchesse of Langeais by Honoré de Balzac

This country produces not only enough for the inhabitants, but enables them to export great quantities of coffee- beans, corn, beans, raisins, almonds, dried apricots, &c. It is said that the coffee-tree does not grow northward beyond Meshnye, in the Zohran country; the tree improves in quality southward: the best coffee is produced in the neighbourhood of Sanaa.
— from Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred by John Lewis Burckhardt

In one or two instances there has been fairly clear evidence that the dirt was contained in the coagulum, and the only explanation fitting the case is that it fell into the latex after straining and during the course of coagulation.
— from The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Sidney Morgan

Almost, as it seemed, among these rose a forest of masts, for Delos was a mart of exchange for the trade of the Mediterranean, and the trade of the Mediterranean was practically the trade of the civilized world.
— from Lords of the World: A story of the fall of Carthage and Corinth by Alfred John Church

Simply that in this direction, as in all other directions, our explanations finally bring us face to face with the inexplicable.
— from The Principles of Biology, Volume 1 (of 2) by Herbert Spencer