[1033] There are even ceremonies during which it is necessary to speak a special language which must not be used for profane purposes.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

“Oh! mamma dear, suppose it should really happen as that kind M. Vautrin said!” said Victorine with a sigh as she looked at her hands.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

It draws forth splinters, and such like things gotten into the flesh, and is very good against bruises and burnings.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

he said, as I stopped and stared like a goose, 'you peep at me, I peep at you, and that is not bad; but see, I am not pleasanting when I say, haf you a wish for German?' "'Yes; but you are too busy.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

To a people caught in the tempest of the last great conflict God says, "Be still, and know that I am God," and still He says it, as if He means to tell us that our strength and safety lie not in noise but in silence.
— from The Pursuit of God by A. W. (Aiden Wilson) Tozer

“To see a sick lady who has sent for me.”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

As soon as something like the irresponsible power of a king met them face to face it was found incompatible with liberty and the latter gained the victory.
— from Ancient Society Or, Researches in the Lines of Human Progress from Savagery, through Barbarism to Civilization by Lewis Henry Morgan

At the end of that time the otter, somewhat exhausted by repeated dives, which have been getting shorter and shorter, lands on the island.
— from Wild Life at the Land's End Observations of the Habits and Haunts of the Fox, Badger, Otter, Seal, Hare and of Their Pursuers in Cornwall by J. C. (John Coulson) Tregarthen

She buyed it from de store, and she let us hab plenty ob it."
— from Autobiography of a Female Slave by Martha Griffith Browne

When they were recruiting their strength with food on the sea where they brought to, Eudamus, observing the enemy towing, by means of their open vessels, several damaged and crippled ships, and seeing little more than twenty that were going off uninjured, commanded silence from the castle of the commander’s ship, and then called out, “Arise, and feast your eyes with an extraordinary sight.”
— from The History of Rome, Books 37 to the End with the Epitomes and Fragments of the Lost Books by Livy

SOLDIERS' AND SEAMENS' LETTERS.
— from Canadian Postal Guide by Canada. Post Office Department

She took this rebuke with a candour, and a sense of its justice the most amiable: she nodded her approbation of the admonition; and, returning to her chair, quietly sat down, as she afterwards said, like a pretty little miss, for the remainder of one of the most humdrum evenings that she had ever passed.
— from Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings by Hester Lynch Piozzi

Its living parallel to-day is Casuarius philipi Rothschild, which, though by no means the tallest species of Casuarius , is the most bulky, and has the shortest and stoutest legs—the tarso-metatarsus is specially short and stout.
— from Extinct Birds An attempt to unite in one volume a short account of those Birds which have become extinct in historical times by Rothschild, Lionel Walter Rothschild, Baron

"It was very silly," but her voice had a strained, broken sound, and she looked frightened.
— from A Little Girl in Old Washington by Amanda M. Douglas