Man–eaters played a major role in my dreams.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

"Indeed, the most ancient superstition of all nations," says Maurice, "has been the worship of the sun, as the lord of heaven and the governor of the world; and in particular it prevailed in Phoenicia, Chaldaea, Egypt, and from later information we may add, Peru and Mexico, represented in a variety of ways, and concealed under a multitude of fanciful names.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

I remember being in the parlour after they had quarrelled, and Edgar being cruelly provoking, and me running into this room desperate.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

But fifty times shall not rekindled be The countenance of the Lady who reigns here, Ere thou shalt know how heavy is that art; And as thou wouldst to the sweet world return, Say why that people is so pitiless Against my race in each one of its laws?"
— from Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell by Dante Alighieri

The truth of this is easily proved by observation; the people are more rude in aristocratic countries than elsewhere, in opulent cities than in rural districts.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The feature in oratory which appears to be the most practised, and most relished, is the constant repetition of the same idea or shadow of an idea in fresh words; and the inquiry out of doors is not, ‘What did he say?’
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

Silver too is what they seek more than gold, from no fondness or preference, but because small pieces are more ready in purchasing things cheap and common.
— from Tacitus on Germany by Cornelius Tacitus

5 A. Gabinius , a client of Pompeius, a man ruined in finances and character, but a dexterous negotiator, a bold orator, and a brave soldier.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

To the purchaser and mere reader it is, at all events, an injustice.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

[520] Astonishment, Terror —A living fresh-water turtle was placed at my request in the same compartment in the Zoological Gardens with many monkeys; and they showed unbounded astonishment, as well as some fear.
— from The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin

On the west bank, directly opposite the railroad tunnel which puts a merry "ring" into the tip of Anthony's Nose, is what is now known as Highland Lake, called by the Indians "Sinnipink," and by the immediate descendants of our Revolutionary fathers "Hessian Lake" or "Bloody Pond," from the fact that an American company were mercilessly slaughtered here by the Hessians, and, after the surrender of Fort Montgomery, their bodies were thrown into the lake.
— from The Hudson Three Centuries of History, Romance and Invention by Wallace Bruce

Was there justice—there was not mercy—in thus rending away the sweetest comforts man can know,—while avarice, and pride and malevolence rioted in unharmed luxuriance.
— from Alone by Marion Harland

"If the bird was ever there, it had flown before our arrival," I replied, putting as much regret into my tones as I could.
— from In Hostile Red by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler

General Aspects of the Topographical Problem That many diurnal migrants tend to fly along shorelines, rivers, [Pg_425] and mountain ridges is well known, but this fact provides no assurance that night migrants do the same thing.
— from A Quantitative Study of the Nocturnal Migration of Birds by Lowery, George H., Jr.

He shared the pleasure of the young people as mystics rejoice in a general communion.
— from The Fourth Estate, vol. 2 by Armando Palacio Valdés

As a last resource Paracelsus was called in, to whom the sick man promised a magnificent recompence, if by his means he were cured.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 by Charles Mackay

M. Danseville, the Governor of St. Pierre and Miquelon, resided in the house near Preston lately owned by the Hon.
— from History of Halifax City by Thomas B. Akins

“She had thrown herself out of the window in despair,” Mrs Golding had told of the unhappy prisoner, and Mary recalled it with a slight shudder.
— from Hathercourt by Mrs. Molesworth