Darkness, indeed, in the present state of her spirits, made silence and solitude terrible to her; it would also prevent the possibility of her finding her way to the turret, and condemn her to remain in suspense, concerning the fate of her aunt; yet she dared not to venture forth for a lamp.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

George Frederick Creuzer, who was born in Germany in 1771, and was a professor at the University of Heidelberg, devoted himself to the study of the ancient religions, and with profound learning, established a peculiar system on the subject.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

He then took a cursory view of the present state of the science and explained many of its elementary terms.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The clock in the passage strikes one,... two,... three.... The last months of my life, while I wait for death, seem to me far longer than my whole life.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Our ideas of particular Sorts of Substances.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

All yielding is attended with a less vivid consciousness than resistance; it is the partial sleep of thought; it is the submergence of our own personality by another.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

[432] Of this party Simonson, Opdahl, Abrahamson, and Quale settled in Springfield, the rest in Decorah and Glenwood Townships.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

Sure enough—there was our motor, lying like a gray cocoon on the flat pale sheet of water.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The doors of the pagoda swung open, and a bright light escaped from its interior, in the midst of which Mr. Fogg and Sir Francis espied the victim.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

There are, peradventure, some of you who will say that I have used overmuch license in 526 inditing these stories, as well as in making ladies whiles say and very often hearken to things not very seemly either to be said or heard of modest women.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

"This is the place," said our hero, to himself.
— from Frank in the Mountains by Harry Castlemon

“I wonder why he didn’t put shutters on the other windows also,” said Katherine.
— from The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House by Hildegard G. Frey

As he pretended to familiarity with the devil, so I fancied that he was fitted to pursue and take delight in his way of life by possessing some of the mental and moral characteristics—the lighter and more comic ones—of the devil in popular stories.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Pg 122] Mining law 44–48 Mining towns 40 Mitchell, John 61–65 National civic federation 63 National coal association 72 , 107 National federation of miners and mine laborers 59 Nationalization 77 , 108–110 Natural gas 87–88 Operators 46–47 , 105 Operators' associations 72–75 , 106–107 Overdevelopment 27–28 , 59 Parsons, Floyd W. (quoted) 79 Pennsylvania, Secretary of internal affairs 43 Petroleum 83–87 Pogue, Joseph E. (quoted) 83–84 , 97 Population and coal 7–8 Power 80 , 88 , 90–101 Power distribution 80 Public opinion 42 , 44 Public utility, coal as a 31–32 , 64 Railroad administration 31–32 Railroads 28 , 31–32 , 80 Rend, W. P. 59 Roosevelt, Theodore 48 , 63–64 , 66–67 Roy, Andrew (quoted) 39 , 42 , 44–45 Rushmore, D. B. (quoted) 79 Scrip 42 Sherman law 73 , 77 Shortage of coal 29 Siney, John 54–56 , 58 Smith, G. O. (quoted) 80 Solar power 1 "Statement of facts" 105 Steel industry 65–66 Steinmetz, Charles P. (quoted) 88 Strikes 40–41 , 48 , 62–64 , 66–71 , 75 Superpower plan 92–96 , 100–101 Transportation of coal 28 , 31–32 , 80
— from The Coming of Coal by Robert W. (Robert Walter) Bruère

The method is particularly serviceable on a hard road, and under such conditions, even when travelling fast, it can be employed quite suddenly without fear of accidents.
— from Ski-running by Willi Rickmer Rickmers

Do we not pity as a miserable weakling, hardly fit to have been graduated from the nursery, any man or woman who will let the mere physical sensation of a few moments at the end of an evening count so much as the dust in the balance against the efficiency of the coming forenoon's life and work?
— from The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde

In the partial sterility of the contemporary hybrid we see this character reappearing, formed now as it was on the occasion of the original cross, by the meeting of complementary factors.
— from Problems of Genetics by William Bateson

The number of persons settled on the Campanus ager is said [8] to have been 20,000 citizens who had each three children or more.
— from Public Lands and Agrarian Laws of the Roman Republic by Andrew Stephenson

The last that the porter saw of them, they were almost running down the street in the direction of the Strand.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

At this present moment, it is not quite finished; but when completed, it promises to be among the most splendid and the most perfect specimens of public architecture in Paris.
— from A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Two by Thomas Frognall Dibdin