It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

A magnificent high-road cannot be made through a desert country, where there is little or no commerce, or merely because it happens to lead to the country villa of the intendant of the province, or to that of some great lord, to whom the intendant finds it convenient to make his court.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

"Whether there be any or not, of that special kind, is of no consequence," observed madame Wang.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

With his florid cheek, his compact figure smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

There is a big insurrection going on in the province of Albay, which is the very richest province in the whole archipelago, a province as big as the State of [ 410 ] Delaware, 7 having a population of about a quarter of a million people, and he has, for police purposes, a crude outfit of native constabulary, officered mostly by ex-enlisted men of the mustered-out American volunteer regiments.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Every man, woman, and child who tries to "reason out" the answer to the simplest puzzle is working, though not of necessity consciously, on mathematical lines.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

With his florid cheek, his compact figure, smartly arrayed in a bright-buttoned blue coat, his brisk and vigorous step, and his hale and hearty aspect, altogether he seemed—not young, indeed—but a kind of new contrivance of Mother Nature in the shape of man, whom age and infirmity had no business to touch.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I attended it at the appointed time, the legal formalities requiring my presence in the room, but as it turned out, not calling on me to repeat my evidence.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Where there has been no definite legal offense, no corruption or malversation, only an error or an imprudence, or what may pass for such, every participator has an excuse to himself and to the world in the fact that other persons are jointly involved with him.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

Ingall o nársi c o me una náue, to be ready to sinke and hang on one side.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Nothing in the world surpasses in stormy fun the scene in The Frogs, when Bacchus and Xanthias receive their thrashings from the hands of businesslike Œacus, to discover which is the divinity of the two, by his imperviousness to the mortal condition of pain, and each, under the obligation of not crying out, makes believe that his horrible bellow—the god’s iou iou being the lustier—means only the stopping of a sneeze, or horseman sighted, or the prelude to an invocation to some deity: and the slave contrives that the god shall get the bigger lot of blows.
— from An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit by George Meredith

History, as it has been hitherto written, has been— First , a narration of the supposed facts of the past, without any especial attempt to investigate the proximate causes of national characteristics or mundane progression.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

But this was little or no concern of my father’s.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 09 by Maria Edgeworth

It had proved that the change which had come over her had been the result of no caprice or mischievous spirit but of a reasonable intention, to which she had been faithful with such consistency of behaviour as filled the gossips and onlookers with amazement.
— from His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Some efforts at enfranchisement had been made by the Norman Catholic aristocracy and the few old families of pure Irish blood who still held their estates, or portions of them, by sufferance; but the words of Swift continued true of the mass of the native race—not from want of natural capacity or manhood—far from it; but from the effect of this grinding oppression of centuries, and the systematic uprooting of all organization among them by English policy.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 21, April, 1875, to September, 1875 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

To move from Fort Brooke and take position at or near Chicuchatty, on March 25th.
— from General Scott by Marcus Joseph Wright

We agree with Richter in the utter inutility of attempting to bring down the os uteri; in most instances we can barely reach it with the tip of the finger, and even were we able to lay hold of it, we should run little or no chance of moving it so long as the fundus is impacted in the hollow of the sacrum.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

She was sent to a general hospital, where she was apprehensive, wanted her mother to stay with her and one night called out "Mother."
— from Benign Stupors: A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type by August Hoch

I already knew the strange history of the founder of this Tibetan sect, and so, when I noticed the two images worshipped side by side, a sensation of nausea came over me.
— from Three Years in Tibet by Ekai Kawaguchi