Studies among the N.W. Central Queensland Aborigines , pp.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“You are a stupid, scurvy innkeeper,” said Don Quixote, and putting spurs to Rocinante and bringing his pike to the slope he rode out of the inn before anyone could stop him, and pushed on some distance without looking to see if his squire was following him.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Hu Gadarn, Cadwaladr, Rhitta Gawr, Brutus, Idris, are all members of the shadowy race whose ‘quoits’ and ‘pebbles’ are scattered about Wales.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

Carvings and statues at impossible elevations, minute symbols hidden in corners, the choice for architectural ornament of animal and vegetable forms, copied as attentively and quaintly as possible—all this shows how abstractedly the artist surrendered himself to the given task.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The streets were deserted, save for a few random stragglers, and these hurried straight along, with the intent look of people who were only anxious to accomplish their errands as quickly as possible, and then snugly house themselves from the rising wind and the gathering twilight.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

“Especially as I know the police captain very well, too,” observed Pyotr Ilyitch, who still continued to stand, and was obviously anxious to escape as quickly as possible from the impulsive lady, who would not let him say good-by and go away.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Devil was not ‘God’s Ape,’ as Tertullian called him, in any comical way; not only was his ceremonial believed to be modelled on that of God, but his inspiration of his followers was believed to be quite as potent and earnest.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

So the king returned to the palace, took the fish from the queen, and put it in water.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

I told her also that we must be as quiet as possible, as aunt slept in the next room.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Higginbotham’s grammar, Higginbotham’s colloquialisms, Higginbotham’s mental quirks and processes, were apparent throughout.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

His countenance is singularly intelligent, his nose aquiline, and his eye quick and penetrating.
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

My past life hangs before me like a far-off picture already; I lie and look at it almost as if it were not mine, and my mind is quite at peace; only sometimes my head is all confused.”
— from St. Winifred's; or, The World of School by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar

[288] The Queen and Privy Council to Fitzwilliam, June 15 and 20.
— from Ireland under the Tudors, with a Succinct Account of the Earlier History. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Richard Bagwell

It is quite a panic, and I feel as if I must run away from 160 it.
— from The Life of Sophia Jex-Blake by Graham Travers

The joy of bargaining and his quick and perhaps dangerously frank interest in clients as personalities, made him a most beguiling salesman; as a result he became, in an astonishingly short time, a real force in the office; all of which hurried him into maturity.
— from The Vehement Flame by Margaret Wade Campbell Deland

Springing to his feet, he pushed up the shutter, and bade the driver pull up as quickly as possible.
— from The Childerbridge Mystery by Guy Boothby

That night General Bragg withdrew as quietly as possible and went into camp at Dalton, where we spent in winter quarters.
— from Memoirs of a Veteran Who Served as a Private in the 60's in the War Between the States Personal Incidents, Experiences and Observations by I. (Isaac) Hermann

Bruce's spider is quite a parochial affair in comparison," and she laughed lightly.
— from Patricia Brent, Spinster by Herbert George Jenkins

"We pushed off as quietly as possible and rowed swiftly down the river.
— from The Stories of the Three Burglars by Frank Richard Stockton