“I shall get by very well,” I meditated.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

And there’s no cause to be downhearted, for he’ll very soon get better, very soon.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A structure which has been developed through long-continued selection, when it ceases to be of service to a species, generally becomes variable, as we see with rudimentary organs; for it will no longer be regulated by this same power of selection.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Moreover, what concern have choice spirits—for it is of such men we speak, men who seek glory by virtue—what concern, I say, have these with fame after the dissolution of the body in death's last hour?
— from The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius

The effect of the vocations and the division of labor is to produce, in the first instance, not social groups but vocational types—the actor, the plumber, and the lumber-jack.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

In shape no slender Grace, But Venus; milder than the dove; Her mother’s air; her Norman face; Her large sweet eyes, clear lakes of love.
— from The Angel in the House by Coventry Patmore

A staircase gradually became visible at the further end of a dark passage; he mounted to the fifth floor, and found d'Arthez's room.
— from Lost Illusions by Honoré de Balzac

It is in scenes by fire-light, camp-light, torch-light, that he triumphs, and his somewhat grim but very real romance owes its origin to the endless suggestions of the deep black shadows which belong to these artificial lights.
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

Her beautiful eyes blazed with genuine ire as she gave back von Herrnung's dominating stare.
— from That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day by Richard Dehan

'Of that,' said Dane with the same gentleness, but very steadily, 'he who exerts it must be the judge himself.'
— from The Gold of Chickaree by Susan Warner

Yet I must remark that the performance of the solos in my Mass offers no special difficulties, and that consequently it could be quite suitably and satisfactorily given by Vienna singers, which seems both simpler and pleasanter.
— from Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 1 from Paris to Rome: Years of Travel as a Virtuoso by Franz Liszt

“They shall go by van,” he replied decisively.
— from Unvarnished Tales by William Mackay

The specific gravity of pure Peru balsam formerly varied between 1.14 and 1.16, but at present between 1.135 and 1.145, this change in the specific gravity being very likely due to a different process of purification.
— from A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Perfumery Comprising directions for making all kinds of perfumes, sachet powders, fumigating materials, dentrifices, cosmetics, etc., etc., with a full account of the volatile oils, balsams, resins, and other natural and artificial perfume-substances, including the manufacture of fruit ethers, and tests of their purity by C. (Carl) Deite