A man who has been false to the Brotherhood is discovered sooner or later by the chiefs who know him—presidents or secretaries, as the case may be.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Such figures, however, as Nisbet remarks, cannot properly be called compartments, having rather the character of devices; while, in the case of the Struan achievement, the chained man would be more accurately described as "an honourable supporter."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

And I will lull to sleep the guardian serpent and give you the fleece of gold; but do thou, stranger, amid thy comrades make the gods witness of the vows thou hast taken on thyself for my sake; and now that I have fled far from my country, make me not a mark for blame and dishonour for want of kinsmen.
— from The Argonautica by Rhodius Apollonius

I came out again, hotter and faster than ever, and dashed up to Highgate, at such a rate that I was there an hour too early; and, though I had not been, should have been obliged to stroll about to cool myself, before I was at all presentable.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

One day, when Rudy went out hunting with his uncle, he hung a coat and hat on an alpine staff, and the chamois mistook it for a man, as they generally do.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

So to the fields a little and walked, and then home and had my head looked [at], and so to supper, and then comes my landlord to me, a sober understanding man, and did give me a good account of the antiquity of this town and Wells; and of two Heads, on two pillars, in Wells church.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

"You needn't say anything, this comforts me," she said softly.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

A small quantity only could be sold; and the coal masters and the coal proprietors find it more for their interest to sell a great quantity at a price somewhat above the lowest, than a small quantity at the highest.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

Further, if the mind is concerned with comparisons, the Imagination can, in all probability, actually though unconsciously let one image glide into another, and thus by the concurrence of several of the same kind come by an average, which serves as the common measure of all.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

Do you mean to say,—said I,—that it is your sister whom that student— [The young fellow commonly known as John, who had been sitting on the barrel, smoking, jumped off just then, kicked over the barrel, gave it a push with his foot that set it rolling, and stuck his saucy-looking face in at the window so as to cut my question off in the middle; and the schoolmistress leaving the room a few minutes afterwards, I did not have a chance to finish it.
— from The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And in these various states they are either bent or broken, or shivered, as the case may be, into fragments of various shapes, which are usually tossed one on top of another, as above described; but, of course, under such circumstances, presenting, not the uniform edges of the books, but jagged edges, as in Fig.
— from Modern Painters, Volume 4 (of 5) by John Ruskin

46 Believe me there is nothing at this moment of which I stand so much in need as a man with whom to share all that causes me anxiety: a man to love me; a man of sense to whom I can speak without affectation, reserve, or conceal [Pg 50] ment.
— from The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order by Marcus Tullius Cicero

We must therefore bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind; but there appears to be at least one check in steady action, namely that the weaker and inferior members of society do not marry so freely as the sound; and this check might be indefinitely increased by the weak in body or mind refraining from marriage, though this is more to be hoped for than expected.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

"I am most anxious to lean on your wisdom and experience, my dear sir, at this critical moment; if you will advise, I shall be happy to follow your instructions."
— from Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore" by James Fenimore Cooper

He had never seen it before in print, and the sight and the circumstances made his tongue cluck back, as though checked by a string tied to its root.
— from The Man Who Lost Himself by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

Elements of ancient Roman culture from the second and third centuries mingle with Byzantine elements (dating from the Middle Ages) and with Islamic elements (brought by the Turkish conquest of the fifteenth century) (see ch. 2).
— from Area Handbook for Romania by Eugene K. Keefe