George Eliot's first stories are in some respects her best, though her literary power increases during her second period, culminating in Silas Marner , and her psychological analysis is more evident in Daniel Deronda .
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

This Northumberland house, in the parish of St. Katherine Colman, belonged to Henry Percie, Earl of Northumberland, in the 33rd of Henry VI., but of late being left by the earls, the gardens thereof were made into bowling alleys, and other parts into dicing houses, common to all comers for their money, there to bowle and hazard; but now of late so many bowling alleys, and other houses for unlawful gaming, hath been raised in other parts of the city and suburbs, that this their ancient and only patron of misrule, is left and forsaken of her gamesters, and therefore turned into a number of great rents, small cottages, for strangers and others.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

‘I put it down here for you as though I had been an eyewitness.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

I was disposed to concur with this opinion, and actually conjured him to make me his confidant, with such protestations as left him no room to doubt my honour and beneficence; but he still persisted in declaring himself the son of an obscure mechanic in Bohemia; an origin to which surely no man would pretend who had the least claim to nobility of birth.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Ayawg ikalit pagbutang, Don’t put it down hastily.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

life, which Nicholas had laid upon him when they travelled from Yorkshire; and a confused and perplexed idea that his benefactor might have committed some terrible crime in bringing him away, which would render him liable to heavy punishment if detected, had contributed, in some degree, to reduce him to his present state of apathy and terror.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Perhaps I did her injustice; but my knowledge of Southerners made it difficult for me to feel otherwise.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

And long training and practice in distinguishing has the same effect as personal interest.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The words were hardly out of his mouth when the room was plunged in darkness, his companion was flung violently backward as the electrical control came into operation and the door slammed in [Pg 289] Ela's face.
— from The Secret House by Edgar Wallace

My good dog , Bruno, always comes, so I hope you'll not object, My passengers in danger he would pluckily protect.
— from Chatterbox, 1906 by Various

Seeing a knot of his parishioners in debate, he asked them what they were discussing, and was told that they were questioning which of the Medford people was the elected one, the population being just two thousand, and that opinion was divided whether it would be the minister or one of his deacons.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Of the unwritten laws that rule the wearing of the mask, Mrs. Aria says 44 : “Whether worn privately or in public, its disguise has at all times and in all countries been respected as inviolably sacred.
— from The Heritage of Dress: Being Notes on the History and Evolution of Clothes by Wilfred Mark Webb

He grew more unquiet, and his thoughts were seldom turned from the rose and the Princess, who seemed more and more to cherish it, till at last, mad with jealousy, he demanded of her that she keep it for ever from his sight, and would have torn it from her, had not the fairy interposed, and warned him of what the King had told him, that a terrible calamity would befall him if he persisted in depriving her of it; and also that his promise to the King was binding.
— from The Yule Log: A Series of Stories for the Young by Georgianna M. Bishop

After this preamble he proceeds to signify his assent to most of the propositions; but to the three principal points in debate, he answers: 1.
— from The History of England from the First Invasion by the Romans to the Accession of King George the Fifth Volume 8 by Hilaire Belloc

Like stout Cortés, silent upon his peak in Darien, he surveyed the Pacific of his dreams.
— from The Man Who Rocked the Earth by Arthur Cheney Train

"I had begun to think that some prince in disguise had eloped with little sobersides."
— from Marguerite Verne; Or, Scenes from Canadian Life by Rebecca Agatha Armour

It is for him to ascertain what power it does have.
— from Thought-Culture; Or, Practical Mental Training by William Walker Atkinson