Nay, rather I must earnestly warn against such accounts, especially the more recent ones; and indeed in the years just past I have met with expositions of the Kantian philosophy in the writings of the Hegelians which actually reach the incredible.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

The true reading is more expressive than either.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

As the book is designed for general use, modern spelling has been adopted, and most words entirely obsolete in speech have been rendered in modern English, though a few that seemed of special significance or [Pg xiv] charm have been retained.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

It can be proved true in those cases alone in which the ancient state, now supposed to be represented in many embryos, has not been obliterated, either by the successive variations in a long course of modification having supervened at a very early age, or by the variations having been inherited at an earlier period than that at which they first appeared.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

It means that he has landed upon a safe shelf or ledge, and the next moment my legs encircled the rope, and I began to glide noiselessly down into the stilly depths, his glad voice ringing in my ears.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

Nagsanting pa sa ákung dalunggan ang íyang mabiaybiáyung talidhay, Her derisive laughter keeps [ 874 ] resounding in my ears.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

This question chimed in so well to the tolling of a certain thought of mine that, with the image of the absconding renegade in my eye, I answered at once, “Hanged if I know, unless it be that he lets you.”
— from Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad

Paris pipes round it; multitudinous; ever higher, to the note of the whirlwind.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

“We dunno how long this ledge of gold-bearing rock is,” Min explained.
— from Ruth Fielding In the Saddle; Or, College Girls in the Land of Gold by Alice B. Emerson

he whispered right into my ear.
— from The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories by Leonid Andreyev

The original prospectus is preserved in the British Museum, which, with "The Struggler" and a new index to the whole of these truly excellent treatises, is reprinted in my edition of Bunyan's whole works for the first time collected and published, with his Life, in three volumes imperial 8vo., illustrated with fac-similes of all the old woodcuts and many elegant steel plates.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 224, February 11, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

While her voice still rang in my ears, the cottage door was opened and closed again.
— from The Two Destinies by Wilkie Collins

The room into which she ushered me, although partaking in the general air of decay which pervaded the mansion and all about it, had, nevertheless, been fitted up with evident attention to comfort, and even with some dingy attempt at luxury; but what pleased me most was that it opened, by a second door, upon a lobby which communicated with my fair cousin's apartment; a circumstance which divested the room, in my eyes, of the air of solitude and sadness which would otherwise have characterised it, to a degree almost painful to one so depressed and agitated as I was.
— from Two Ghostly Mysteries A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family; and the Murdered Cousin by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

It was just after the eternal "Bonus—Bona—Bonum" of the master had ceased to ring in my ears, that I commenced to be a young man.
— from The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 by R. H. (Robert Henry) Newell

At last as the sun wore round, gradually descending till it shone right into my eyes, and I realised that the afternoon was getting far through, hope began to rise higher and higher.
— from The Spy in Black by J. Storer (Joseph Storer) Clouston

The foul and horrible words that he hurled at me that last day are repeated in my ears every night when I sleep.
— from Whirligigs by O. Henry

Her very disqualification, that of being a nobody, as you call it, is her recommendation in my eyes.
— from Life's Little Ironies A set of tales with some colloquial sketches entitled A Few Crusted Characters by Thomas Hardy