The word occurs six times in Macbeth (it does not occur elsewhere in Shakespeare).
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

} Above all others, everywhere I see His image cold or burning!
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

But when I begin to examine the pictures one by one the life goes out of them, or else is something violent and strange to me.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Everyone is in his place reading, writing, studying, or engaged in some form of mental work.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

With these he again crossed over early in spring into Britain, but, whilst he was marching with the army against the enemy, the ships, riding at anchor, were caught in a storm and either dashed one against another, or driven upon the sands and wrecked.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

There's a man with a Nose, And wherever he goes The people run from him and shout: "No cotton have we For our ears if so be He blow that interminous snout!"
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

I want you to be jealous, even of yourself, or else I shall not believe that you love me.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

I was still sitting in the chair, but I thought myself actually dead, withered, tattered, dried, one eye (I saw) pecked out by birds.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The plain shield of ermine is sometimes to be found as a quartering for Brittany in the achievement of those English families who have the right to quarter the Royal arms; but I know of no other British case in which, either as a quartering or as a pronominal coat, arms of one tincture exist.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

After his father's death it had taken time to get his head above water, and he did not want Andrew Hale, or any one else in Starkfield, to think he was going under again.
— from Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton

Of course, I don't know how it's going to work out, seeing as one of 'em is Spanish, one of 'em Portugee and the other
— from West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon

Coming towards the end of it, by a gradual ascent, I accosted a man who was standing at the door of his humble dwelling: "I suppose you are old enough," I said to him, "to remember the great Famine?"
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

as every one else is stopping to look at the hills yonder; I always thought there was a curse upon us.
— from The Hollow Land by William Morris

From this time, though the outward splendour of the Empire was undiminished, there remained scarcely anything of the personal prestige which Napoleon had once enjoyed in so rich a measure.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

I was getting rather hopeless, and wondering what on earth I should say to my uncle, when the brilliant idea occurred to me of looking at some of the other advertisements which my uncle hadn’t marked.
— from My Friend Smith: A Story of School and City Life by Talbot Baines Reed

" This seems almost the limit of praise but Prof. Saintsbury can say even more than this: "It would be possible, indeed, to {198} illustrate a complete dissertation on the methods of expression in serious poetry from the fifty-one lines of the Dies Irae.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

Strindberg's pity is transcendentalised; it hovers round the greater mysteries of existence itself, seeks to extract the human spirit from the curse of illusions.
— from August Strindberg, the Spirit of Revolt: Studies and Impressions by L. (Lizzy) Lind-af-Hageby

The process is the same in essence, whether going on in thought or expressed in speech; it is a process of naming .
— from A Short History of Greek Philosophy by J. (John) Marshall