He made another pause and went on,— “Yes, dating from that day, there was within me a man whom I did not know.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

“Holy father!” said the Jew, “whom could it interest to endanger so poor a wretch as I am?”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

In the sixteenth century, the same system was pursued, as will be shewn more fully in the life of Seton the Cosmopolite.
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

This increase in the blood-platelets, recently confirmed by Tobler and by Brandt, is a very exceptional phenomenon, and was not anticipated in connection with a disorder characterized by hemorrhage.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

At the trial he was red and perspiring, and was evidently ashamed of his grey prison coat and of sitting on the same bench with humble peasants.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The water I drank was rather hard and difficult to pass, as water from mountains generally is; in short, I managed so well, that in the course of two months I totally ruined my stomach, which until that time had been very good, and no longer digesting anything properly, had no reason to expect a cure.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There's no reform in the matter: the question is, whether the profit on the drugs is paid to the medical man by the druggist or by the patient, and whether there shall be extra pay under the name of attendance.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Then she can play the piano, (and, what’s more, she’s got one), and sing like a little bird.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Literature, strictly consider'd, has never recognized the People, and, whatever may be said, does not to-day.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

"The Featherstones doubtless will now increase And multiply like the rabbits, While jailers, deputy sheriffs, police, And writers will form good habits.
— from Black Beetles in Amber by Ambrose Bierce

Cinereous; head white, clothed behind and beneath with cinereous hairs; frontalia deep black, widening towards the face; palpi and antennæ black; thorax with five black stripes, the exterior pair incomplete, the middle cinereous intervals interlined; abdomen tessellated, with three black stripes, the lateral pair forming lanceolate streaks on the 3rd and 4th segments; legs black, very stout; wings grey; veins black; præbrachial vein forming a right angle at its flexure, near which it is curved inward, and is thence almost straight to its tip; discal transverse vein slightly curved near each end, parted by much less than its length from the border, and from the flexure of the præbrachial; alulæ white.
— from Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 4 Zoology by Linnean Society of London

For a minute he stands there lookin' sort of dazed, as if he'd been hit with a lead pipe, and with his neck and ears tinted up like a raspb'rry sundae.
— from Torchy, Private Sec. by Sewell Ford

Its mounds are large and lofty, especially upon the western side, where the hill falls steeply to the plain, and we obtain glimpses through the twinkling foliage of far-away heights, extending fold upon fold to the horizon.
— from Nooks and Corners of Shropshire by H. Thornhill (Henry Thornhill) Timmins

Visitors from many different lands, have in their several languages left their impressions in the book which is kept here for the purpose, and we added our names and a faint transcript of our feelings to the records of the Prebisch Thor.
— from Letters from Switzerland by Samuel Irenæus Prime

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— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Assure the good people of America, Mr. Minister, that, like them, we admire liberty; that they will always possess our esteem, and find in the French people that republican generosity which knows how to grant peace as well as how to cause its sovereignty to be respected.
— from Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing

On the 12th of August he had landed at Carlisle Bay, on the island of Santa Cruz, accompanied by an interpreter, through whose means, according to his usual plan, he was engaged in communicating with the natives, when, after a conference with some who appeared to have no hostile intentions, as he was in the act of stepping into his boat, a savage, a few yards off, shot a poisoned arrow, which struck him in the side.
— from Our Sailors: Gallant Deeds of the British Navy during Victoria's Reign by William Henry Giles Kingston