Richard Swiviller considered it advisable to hear no more, but taking advantage of a pause in the dancing, and the approach of Mr Cheggs to pay his court to the old lady, swaggered with an extremely careful assumption of extreme carelessness toward the door, passing on the way Miss Jane Wackles, who in all the glory of her curls was holding a flirtation, (as good practice when no better was to be had) with a feeble old gentleman who lodged in the parlour.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

Water lilies , ease pains of the head coming of choler and heat, provoke sleep, cool inflammations, and the heat in fevers.
— 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

44. will have them used ten or twelve days together; to which he must enter fasting, and so continue in a temperate heat, and after that frictions all over the body.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But the sacrifice theory is also inadequate; for, though changelings may in some cases in ancient times have conceivably been the sickly children discarded by priests as unfit for sending to the gods or fairies, how can we explain actual changelings to be met with to-day in all Celtic lands?
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

One single consideration influenced all these human beings thrown together by chance.
— from Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac

God must be the sole cause, inasmuch as to him alone does existence appertain.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Slowly and carefully, therefore, I gained my feet, only to see that my watcher did the same; cautiously I advanced toward him, finding that by moving with a shuffling gait I could retain my balance as well as make reasonably rapid progress.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

how am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen to-day?' exclaimed Margaret, bursting the bounds she had preordained for herself before she came in, and telling her mother of what she had seen and heard at Higgins's cottage.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

One day, while he was talking to Gozlan, one of his secretaries came in and told him that a particular bugbear of his, and a great nonentity to boot, had got the Cross of the Legion of Honour.
— from An Englishman in Paris: Notes and Recollections by Albert D. (Albert Dresden) Vandam

Father owned a little square-built stone cottage in a tiny Highland village, four miles north of Crumach.
— from Head of the Lower School by Dorothea Moore

“Ah, that know I well,” she chimed; “in Avangel they had souls like clay; they saw nothing, understood nothing.
— from Uther and Igraine by Warwick Deeping

Thou hast (if I may so call it) all thy hell here; let thy life be expired, and thy misery is ended; thy happiness begins, where wicked men's end; and when thine is once began, it shall have no more end.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

But when there, and when, looking up at its grated windows, she contemplated it as the habitation of her father—so different to that of the father of Caroline—and beheld in fancy the woe-worn, sallow face of Fitzhenry, so unlike the healthy, satisfied look of Mr. Seymour—"I can't go in, I can't see him to-day," she faintly articulated, overcome with a sudden faintness—and, as soon as she could recover her strength, she returned home; and, shutting herself up in her own apartment, spent the rest of the day in that mournful and solitary meditation that "maketh the heart better."
— from The Father and Daughter: A Tale, in Prose by Amelia Opie

Mr. Cone was one of those (what Simeon Cameron is alleged to have characterized a writer) “damned literary fellers.”
— from Personal Recollections of the War of 1861 As Private, Sergeant and Lieutenant in the Sixty-First Regiment, New York Volunteer Infantry by Charles A. Fuller

***** The Compiler of the foregoing Journal begs leave to acquaint the public, that he still continues it, and that he will publish another volume in due time, if this work should be favoured with approbation and encouragement. and encouragement.
— from Historical Epochs of the French Revolution With The Judgment And Execution Of Louis XVI., King Of France And A List Of The Members Of The National Convention, Who Voted For And Against His Death by Henry Goudemetz

It seemed that she had suffered considerable illness and that had made her backward in her books.
— from Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies; Or, The Missing Pearl Necklace by Alice B. Emerson

And the more so, because thy gallant bearing has been studiously concealed in all the histories of these important transactions.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan