Never did I see such baffled malice on a face; and never, I trust, shall such ever be seen again by mortal eyes.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

When the conditions of society are becoming more equal, and each individual man becomes more like all the rest, more weak and more insignificant, a habit grows up of ceasing to notice the citizens to consider only the people, and of overlooking individuals to think only of their kind.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

And, though the mouse and the sausage also begged most earnestly, the bird would have his way, and said it must be tried.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

The Biographical Alphabet MEERSCHAUM, n. (Literally, seafoam, and by many erroneously supposed to be made of it.)
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

The collapse which Bloom ascribed to gastric inanition and certain chemical compounds of varying degrees of adulteration and alcoholic strength, accelerated by mental exertion and the velocity of rapid circular motion in a relaxing atmosphere, Stephen attributed to the reapparition of a matutinal cloud (perceived by both from two different points of observation Sandycove and Dublin) at first no bigger than a woman’s hand.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Do you really think that our souls do not flame with anger when our country is lashed with Cossack-whips, and trodden under foot, shot and spit at by mad, exasperated men?
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

But if, whilst the ranks of society are becoming more equal, the education of the people remains incomplete, or their spirit the reverse of bold—if commerce and industry, checked in their growth, afford only slow and arduous means of making a fortune—the various members of the community, despairing of ameliorating their own condition, rush to the head of the State and demand its assistance.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

When people go to bed late”—she stopped short, arrested by my expression, stared for a moment, and then concluded—“they naturally object to being disturbed in the morning.
— from The Lady of the Basement Flat by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

In the meantime, don’t show me up to a soul, and believe me,” etc.
— from General Bounce; Or, The Lady and the Locusts by G. J. (George John) Whyte-Melville

For let ea , be continued or drawne out into u , so that the continuation au , be equall unto eo : and unto a , the point of the continuation, let the angle uas , be made equall, and equicrurall to the angle oei , that is, let the shanke as , be made equall to the shanke ei .
— from The Way To Geometry by Petrus Ramus

[Pg 205] for departure, which consisted in changing her party dress for an Amazonian costume, equally suitable for the carriage or the saddle; in assorting her papers so that she might burn those that were worthless, and set aside the valuable ones to be taken with her; lastly, in collecting her diamonds, which she had had removed from their settings, that they might occupy less space, and be more easily available in case of an emergency.
— from The War of Women, Volume 1 by Alexandre Dumas

They were little interested in the politics of the Shan States; and being more easily accessible to the Burmese and very open to Kachin raids, they had not much cohesion or independence.
— from The Pacification of Burma by C. H. T. (Charles Haukes Todd) Crosthwaite

“I cannot be everywhere,” he said, aloud, “but my enemies shall soon find out that I am here, and I shall know how to avenge the disgrace of Trafalgar by a brilliant victory.”
— from Louisa of Prussia and Her Times: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

The commonest lava is blackish-grey or brown, either vesicular, or amygdaloidal with calcareous spar and bole: most even of the darkest varieties fuse into a pale-coloured glass.
— from Geological Observations on South America by Charles Darwin

Send Momus, I beg, let him carry an egg, To earth's now disconsolate son; And bid Mistress Eve, that no longer she grieve, For the gods have enclosed them a Pun ."
— from The Punster's Pocket-book or, the Art of Punning Enlarged by Bernard Blackmantle, illustrated with numerous original designs by Robert Cruikshank by C. M. (Charles Molloy) Westmacott