The attendant tells me that he was quiet until just before dawn, and that then he began to get uneasy, and at length violent, until at last he fell into a paroxysm which exhausted him so that he swooned into a sort of coma. ...
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

N OTES :— Notes on Books, No. II.—Gabriel Harvey, by S. W. Singer 169 The Antiquity of Kilts, by T. Stephens 170 Notes on Julin, No. I., by Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie 171 Minor Notes:—Anecdote of Curran—Difficulty of getting rid of a Name—House of Lord Edward Fitzgerald—Fairy Dances—Æsop—Nelson's Coat at Trafalgar 173 Q UERIES :— John Knox, by David Laing 174 Minor Queries:—"Fœda ministeria, atque minis absistite acerbis"—Cornish Arms and Cornish Motto—Gloucester saved from the King's Mines—Milesian—Horology—Laurentius Müller—Lines on a Bed—Pirog—Lists of Plants, with their Provincial Names—Print Cleaning—Italian Writer on Political Economy—Carli the Economist—Nightingale and Thorn—Coleridge's Essays on Beauty—Henryson and Kinaston—Oldys' Account of London Libraries—A Sword-blade Note—Abacot—Princesses of Wales
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 97, September 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

She opened her eyes, and glancing downward got a full view of my stiffly distended weapon with its ruby head quite uncovered just entering within the charming precincts of her lovely retreat, and she said smiling that it was just what she had been dreaming of.
— from Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous

It looked quite unchanged: just the same pleasant old place, as cheerful, as self-conceited, as kindly, as hospitable, as quarrelsome, as wholesome, as moral and as loyal and as disagreeable as it always was.
— from Frenzied Fiction by Stephen Leacock

Each quarter Uncle Jabez has had to pay out a lot of money to Mrs. Tellingham for my tuition.
— from Ruth Fielding in Moving Pictures; Or, Helping the Dormitory Fund by Alice B. Emerson

The open stable door reminded me of my duty, and driving in, I quickly unharnessed Jenny and put her away.
— from The House of the Whispering Pines by Anna Katharine Green

No—no—and we've been hunting house and garden for hours——" "And the forest?" questioned Uncle Jack, the trapper instinct of former days suddenly re-awakening.
— from Lords of the North by Agnes C. Laut

Quam ut justum authoris deferat.—
— from Sir Christopher Wren: His Family and His Times With Original Letters and a Discourse on Architecture Hitherto Unpublished. 1585-1723. by Lucy Phillimore

As it settled, a quick upward jerk of the arm did the rest and there was a snubbing of rope around the saddle horn, a sudden stopping and dropping back on haunches on the part of the pony, and the cow went down heavily.
— from Hopalong Cassidy by Clarence Edward Mulford

Orthoptera (grasshoppers) are eaten in small quantities until July, after which they form a fair percentage till September.
— from Food Habits of the Thrushes of the United States USDA Bulletin 280 by F. E. L. (Foster Ellenborough Lascelles) Beal

Q UERIES :— Judges styled Reverend, &c. 151 Minor Queries:—Frederick Egmont; Peter (Egmont?)—Unlucky for Pregnant Women to take on Oath—Cockroach—Felton—Date of a Charter—Thomas Tusser the "Husbandman"—Godfrey Higgins' Works—Noctes Templariæ—Commissioners on Officers of Justice in England—Marcus Ælius Antoninus—Derivation of Pic-nic—Sir Thomas More's Knighthood—Portrait of Mandeville—Early History of Dingle—Language of Ancient Egypt—Dr. Matthew Sutcliffe—Names first given to Parishes—German Testament—The Man of Law—The Termination "Ship"—Nullus and Nemo—The noblest Object of the Work of Art—Poulster 151 M INOR Q UERIES A NSWERED :—Rev. Cæsar de Missy—F. Beaumont and Jeremy Taylor—"Carve out
— from Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 96, August 30, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

That being, from whom comes the money of these days, never unties its purse-strings for genius that is called in question; unfortunately, Joseph had the classics and the Institute, and the critics who cry up those two powers, against him.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac