In a word, nothing could more seriously disturb me, (although I scrupulously concealed such disturbance,) than any allusion to a similarity of mind, person, or condition existing between us.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

wíting 1 a 1 in cards or mahjong, be in a position where one needs only one more piece or card to get mahjong or rummy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

With this manuscript I sent a letter to the famous operatic poet, in which I suggested that he might make use of my plot, on condition that he would secure me the composition of the music for the Paris Opera House.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

It will no doubt seem astonishing that there can be the least accord in the association, and that men bound together by no physical tie and who live at great distances from each other can communicate their ideas to each other, make plans of conduct, and give grounds of fear to Governments; but there exists an invisible chain which binds together all the scattered members of the association.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

When I had listened to all that they had to tell, I began to walk up and down near Briony Lodge once more, and to think over my plan of campaign.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I thought with a sensation of madness on my promise of creating another like to him, and, trembling with passion, tore to pieces the thing on which I was engaged.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

My purse was too lean to allow of my playing or consoling myself with a theatrical beauty, so I fell back on the library of Monseigneur Zalewski, the Bishop of Kiowia, for whom I had taken a great liking.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

I daresay it sounds very brutal; but here have I been displaced, and turned out of my post of comforter and adviser by a fine lady aunt; and there are cousins and what not claiming her in London, as if she were a lap-dog belonging to them.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Secure, however, in the inscrutability of my place of concealment, I felt no embarrassment whatever.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Even yet starvation was not an impossibility; for they had not reached any signs of habitation yet, and there was but one more portion of corn-meal and a little coffee left.
— from The Girl from Montana by Grace Livingston Hill

Theodore himself appears to have been stricken with remorse, and to have drooped into 33 despondency, to rouse him from which and lead him to repose more trustfully on the goodness of God, was one main purpose of Chrysostom’s letters.
— from Saint John Chrysostom, His Life and Times A sketch of the church and the empire in the fourth century by W. R. W. (William Richard Wood) Stephens

“During the war a lot of messages passed our censors as perfectly innocent and harmless and yet they were of the utmost importance—they were so frank and simple we overshot the mark.”
— from The Radio Detectives by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill

A lobster salad may be made as above; also a salad of minced prawns or crabs.
— from Miss Leslie's Lady's New Receipt-Book, 3rd ed. A Useful Guide for Large or Small Families, Containing Directions for Cooking, Preserving, Pickling... by Eliza Leslie

Changing my tactics, I endeavored to convince the hawk that a family quarrel was in progress among the mice in the thick clump of pines below him, and was rewarded by seeing him turn first one keen eye and then the other on my place of concealment; then he leaned forward and crouched catlike on his perch, half opening his broad wings and shifting his feet about in his impatience.
— from Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, September 1899 Vol. LV, May to October, 1899 by Various

[xiv] Shakspere's equipoise of mind, placidity of conduct and control of passion rendered him invulnerable to the shafts of envy, malice and tyranny, making him always master of the human midgets or vultures that circled about his pathway.
— from Shakspere, Personal Recollections by John A. (John Alexander) Joyce

Monteiro says ( A. and C. , 134) that the negro "has not the slightest idea of mercy, pity, or compassion for suffering.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck