“This is only the sea,” observed Gideon Spilett, “and possibly it does not inspire him with any wish to escape!”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Though she is my sister,” Stepan Arkadyevitch pursued, “I don’t hesitate to say that she’s a remarkable woman.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.
— from A Christmas Carol in Prose; Being a Ghost Story of Christmas by Charles Dickens

I went to the stern and pulled it down, expecting him to wake up.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

At this the vanquish’d, with his dying breath, Thus faintly spoke, and prophesied in death: “Nor thou, proud man, unpunish’d shalt remain: Like death attends thee on this fatal plain.”
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

"If Oliver were ill, or you, or father, I'd go in a minute unless one of the children was really sick—but just to see a play is different, and I'd feel as if I were neglecting my duty.
— from Virginia by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

After a [Pg 338] while I began to hear a sound of falling water, and in a few minutes passed an opening in the side of the pit, out of which gushed an underground stream, and precipitated itself down the chasm.
— from Yorkshire Oddities, Incidents, and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

[Pg 220] Dere's a great day a comin' when de last trumpet will sound and de devil and all de ghosts will be chained and they can't romp 'round de old river and folks houses in de night time and bring sorrow and pain in de wake of them big tracks."
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Simultaneously with the words, Siwash lifted his rifle to his shoulder, and pointed it directly at Matt.
— from Motor Matt on the Wing; or, Flying for Fame and Fortune by Stanley R. Matthews

"'Thus, therefore, he interpreted that which Gregory of Tours relates touching a bloody rain seen at Paris in divers places, in the days of Childebert, and on a certain house in the territory of Senlis; also that which is storied, touching raining of blood about the end of June, in the days of King Robert; so that the blood which fell upon flesh, garments or stones could not be washed out, but that which fell on wood might; for it was the same season of Butterflies, and experience hath taught us, that no water will wash these spots out of the stones, while they are fresh and new.
— from The Butterfly Book A Popular Guide to a Knowledge of the Butterflies of North America by W. J. (William Jacob) Holland

Unequal as I feel myself to the task, I shall, my dear friend, lose no time, nor spare any pains, in discharging the arduous duty that has devolved upon me.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 06 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Europe's banking machinery in South and Central America, although it may not be very actively functioning in these trying times, still exists, and will be ready to resume its former activities as soon as peace is declared....
— from Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips

At length she added, "I was in service, sir, at Poole, in Dorsetshire, when I married; my mother only was living, and while I was away with my husband, she died.
— from International Miscellany of Literature, Art and Science, Vol. 1, No. 3, Oct. 1, 1850 by Various