You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.”
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The writer of the Early History of Mankind states that the Assineboins, or stone-boilers, dig a hole in the ground, take a piece of raw hide, and press it down to the sides of the hole, and fill it with water; this is called a “paunch-kettle”; then they make a number of stones red-hot in a fire close by, the meat is put into the water, and the hot stones dropped in until it is cooked.
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

The fact that race prejudice is due to, or is in some sense dependent upon, race competition is further manifest by a fact that Mr. Steiner has emphasized, namely, that prejudice against the Japanese is nowhere uniform throughout the United States.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

I would have saved him for eighty dollars,” he protested in dulcet tones, keeping a pace behind me.
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Climate plays an important part in determining the average numbers of a species, and periodical seasons of extreme cold or drought seem to be the most effective of all checks.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

It was a soul-possession he dreamed, refined beyond any grossness, a free comradeship of spirit that he could not put into definite thought.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Indeed, there is very little need of being particular in describing the whole form, as it differed so little from those libations of which so much is recorded in antient authors and their modern transcribers.
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

A large portion is devoted to the influence of the Catholic Church, and relates many piquant narratives in illustration of the subject.
— from Vagabond Life in Mexico by Gabriel Ferry

In the second place, it defeats the ends of justice because it is an appeal to a court where the local circumstances are not familiar, and where it may even happen (as it will certainly happen in the case of Ireland) that the very axioms of the law may not be rightly apprehended.
— from The Irish Constitution Explained by Darrell Figgis by Darrell Figgis

A characteristic habit of the bronze beetle is to leap off the plant if disturbed; this habit has been responsible for the group to which this insect belongs being called “flea beetles.”
— from Garden Pests in New Zealand A Popular Manual for Practical Gardeners, Farmers and Schools by David Miller

Then the chief judge rose and said, "Young man, the prize is duly thine.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

The remainder of the First Act, which is entitled “La Philosophie,” is devoted to depicting the supremacy gradually obtained by the brilliant young Breton over the students of Nôtre-Dame, until, Guillaume de Champeaux finally abandoned by his scholars, Abelard can exclaim, “ Maintenant l’Ecole de Paris, c’est moi! ”
— from Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, May 1885 by Various

“Pictures, furniture, and effects” is the auctioneer’s favourite phrase in describing the property of a gentleman.
— from Ideals in Art: Papers Theoretical, Practical, Critical by Walter Crane