"' "And you have kept awake so long!" replied Eva compassionately, as she threw her arms gratefully around her sister's neck, kissed her tenderly, and then pressed her hot cheek to hers.
— from In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 01 by Georg Ebers

Tous ces systèmes reposent sur une analyse psychologique très raffinée; et chacun a sa terminologie précise, et à laquelle la nôtre ne répond que fort imparfaitement: il faut donc, sous peine de se tromper et de tromper ses lecteurs, que les traducteurs créent une foule de termes techniques, ce qui n’est pas la moindre difficulté de ce travail.”
— from Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 1 by George Grote

"That is, if flavour cuts no figure with you, and you'd rather eat condemned army stores than not!"
— from Love, the Fiddler by Lloyd Osbourne

"Oh, Reginald!" exclaimed Cecilia, as she took a seat, "what a place for us to meet in!"
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

( b ) “The Radiant Essence curdles and spreads throughout the Depths” of Space.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

Weight data from birds migrating at night should be especially useful because these migrants all have relatively empty crops and stomachs, thus reducing variability.
— from Studies of Birds Killed in Nocturnal Migration by Robert Morrow Mengel

The school-house of this district stood out upon the prairie to the west a mile distant, and during May we trudged our way over a pleasant road, each carrying a small tin pail filled with luncheon.
— from A Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland

They were not long left in doubt, for, upon a loud yell being uttered, five parties of Matabili, each consisting of above twenty men, rushed towards the rocks, each carrying a slender tree about forty feet in length.
— from Adventures of Hans Sterk: The South African Hunter and Pioneer by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson