Would something else look as well or better, in its place?
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

" "Oh, no, I shan't," said Eppie, laughing and frisking; "he likes it.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Why do so few 'scientists' even look at the evidence for telepathy, so called? Because they think, as a leading biologist, now dead, once said to me, that even if such a thing were true, scientists ought to band together to keep it suppressed and concealed.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

One somehow began to imagine that he must have a tongue of special shape, somehow exceptionally long and thin, extremely red with a very sharp everlastingly active little tip.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And suddenly Emelyanoushka looked at me.
— from Short Stories by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An objector in a large State exclaims loudly against the unreasonable equality of representation in the Senate.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

Shining eyes, like antique jewels set in Parian statue-stone!
— from The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

This is the problem which should have been solved by those who have been so long dealing in such extravagant language and "glittering generalities" about the natural rights of man.
— from Slavery by James L. (James Loring) Baker

The Sun enters Virgo about August 24 The Sun enters Libra about September 24 The Sun enters Scorpio about October 24 The Sun enters Sagittarius about November 23
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky

"In as few words as possible, Mrs. Cole, I affirm on oath, and from indisputable evidence, both from Messrs. Brookes & Davidson, barristers, London, England, and from parties now in this house, that you, with your uncle and aunt, Mr. and Miss Stone, late of Broadlawns, Bayswater, London, England, have," he said, sternly, consulting some English letters, "appropriated the income from the estate of your late ste
— from A Romance of Toronto (Founded on Fact): A Novel by Annie G. (Annie Gregg) Savigny

"Yes, Maam, very much," said Ellen, laughing at her friend's look; "but Mamma told me never to try to find out anything about other people that they didn't wish me to know, or that wasn't my business."
— from The Wide, Wide World by Susan Warner

Such an impression had his unfortunate accommodation at York made on him, that, in another place, when endeavouring to describe Dover, in Kent, as a dull place, we have him venturing to employ such extravagant language as this: "Everybody who has been at Dover knows that it is one of the vilest
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The face she turned upon the young girl in her solemn expostulations looked as if it were inscribed with the epitaphs of hope and virtue.
— from The Guardian Angel by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Manners sucked eagerly, like an infant at its mother’s breast.
— from Aladdin O'Brien by Gouverneur Morris

Society enacts laws and prescribes penalties respecting murder, rape, brothels, false imprisonment, and irregular interments.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger

Smart English ladies and officers ride or drive about in their dog-carts with native tigers behind.
— from India Impressions, With some notes of Ceylon during a winter tour, 1906-7. by Walter Crane