She was so completely overwhelmed, that I was obliged to take her from them, and carry her to the door.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

If Thou sendest me to hell, I shall love Thee there, and from there I shall cry out that I love Thee for ever and ever....
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What should a young Bostonian have made of a character like this, internally alive with childlike fancies, and externally quiet, simple, almost innocent; uttering with apparent conviction the usual commonplaces of popular politics that all politicians use as the small change of their intercourse with the public; but never betraying a thought?
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

Now the current, by carrying the bodies of these miserable men out to sea, would spare the colonists the sad task of burying them in some corner of their island.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

A kind of physical love like that of animals; a longing to be in the presence of the one who is loved; an inexpressible wistfulness during absence; a silent cry of the inmost heart for the mother, like the lowing of a calf in the twilight;-this love, which was almost an animal instinct, agitated the shy, nervous, lean, uncouth and ugly boy.
— from The Hungry Stones, and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore

I left the table as soon as I had my second cup of tea, I need hardly say.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

"The League of Virtue," he writes, "was directed by the secondary chiefs of the Illuminés ....
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

For the foregoing and cognate reasons, Senator Lodge’s description of Spain’s last thirty years in Cuba fits our first six or seven in the Philippines, beginning in 1899 with the original Otis press censorship [ 348 ] policy of “not letting anything go that will hurt the Administration,” and coming on down to a certificate made in 1907 by the Philippine Commission for consumption in the United States, to the effect that a state of general and complete peace had prevailed throughout the islands for a stated period preceding the certificate, when, as a matter of fact, during the period covered by the certificate, an executive proclamation formally declaring a state of insurrection had issued, and the Supreme Court of the islands had upheld certain drastic executive action as legal because of the state of insurrection recognized by the proclamation.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Because in the preceding section I have made mention of good counsel, comfortable speeches, persuasion, how necessarily they are required to the cure of a discontented or troubled mind, how present a remedy they yield, and many times a sole sufficient cure of themselves; I have thought fit in this following section, a little to digress (if at least it be to digress in this subject), to collect and glean a few remedies, and comfortable speeches out of our best orators, philosophers, divines, and fathers of the church, tending to this purpose.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

In education, accordingly, the tendency was to treat the sciences as a separate body of studies, consisting of technical information regarding the physical world, and to reserve the older literary studies as distinctively humanistic.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

“ Now I know,” she cried, “why you were so crazy over ‘Treasure Island.’
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

These, their descendants, had the resources of civilisation, but applied to the same hopes and aspirations—dominion and the vision of material riches; inspired by the same belief in their own unconquerable prowess; impelled by the same conviction of their inborn right as the earth’s most valiant to possess and to rule the sunny lands held by cowards and degenerates.
— from Hacking Through Belgium by Edmund (Military historian) Dane

Simuntis, cognomen of Troy, ii. 74 .
— from The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3) Literally Translated, with Notes by Strabo

As regards the priesthood, the Sacred Congregation of the Inquisition, in 1704, decided that certain Abyssinians had been validly ordained priests by imposition of hands and the words, “Accipe Spiritum Sanctum.”
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 19, April 1874‐September 1874 by Various

The destinies of Europe were now held in the hands of three women: Maria Theresa, who by common consent had good cause for war, and was fighting in self-defence; Madame de Pompadour, who, virtually sovereign of France, by reason of her supreme control of the infamous Louis XV., as Frederick had stung her by some insult, [429] did not hesitate to deluge Europe in blood; and Catherine II., empress of Russia, who was also Frederick’s foe on account of personal pique.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

Hermione spoke hastily, abruptly, strongly conscious of the impossibility of taking Vere with her.
— from A Spirit in Prison by Robert Hichens

Scarcely had these words been spoken, when she cried out, "That is a confounded lie.
— from Solomon Maimon: An Autobiography. by Solomon Maimon

I wish I were where Helen lies, Night and day on me she cries, O that I were where Helen lies, On fair Kirconnell Lee!
— from Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth Popular Ballads of the Olden Times - Second Series by Frank Sidgwick