The contrast between Mrs. Churchill's importance in the world, and Jane Fairfax's, struck her; one was every thing, the other nothing—and she sat musing on the difference of woman's destiny, and quite unconscious on what her eyes were fixed, till roused by Miss Bates's saying, “Aye, I see what you are thinking of, the pianoforte.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

“Of course,” said he; “of what else should I speak?”
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

His determination to cram down their throats, or put ‘bodily into their souls’ his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates.
— from The Republic of Plato by Plato

His determination to cram down their throats, or put 'bodily into their souls' his own words, elicits a cry of horror from Socrates.
— from The Republic by Plato

In the seventh, however, of which Enoch is the representative, who is recorded to have been translated without death because he pleased God, there is the same discrepancy as in the first five generations, 100 years more being ascribed to him by our mss.
— from The City of God, Volume II by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

well, spose him one whale eye, well, den!”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

"I do not wish to trammel you with instructions; I will state, however, that if Smith holds out, without even an ostensible government to receive orders from or to report to, he and his men are not entitled to the considerations due to an acknowledged belligerent.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

Of DUCHIE I have already spoken; her oddities were endless.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

They fix her in my mind, as great beauty, great intelligence, quickness of wit or kindness of heart might have made some her other woman equally memorable.
— from Falk: A Reminiscence by Joseph Conrad

She would avoid him or seek him out with equal unexpectedness.
— from A Man's Man by Ian Hay

According to one English Custumal, he should “ever comport himself with regularity, reverence, and modesty, since his office, when exercised with the characteristic virtues, is a source of delight and pleasure to God, to the angels, and to men.
— from English Monastic Life by Francis Aidan Gasquet

Several herds of wild elephants having been driven into a corral, two tame decoys were ridden into it:— One was of prodigious age, having been in the service of the Dutch and English Governments in succession for upwards of a century.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

The inhabitants of the same hamlet or winter establishment form one community although no chief is elected or authority acknowledged.
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane

Besides the nobility there is an agreeable and respectable society here of wealthy English and German merchants, among whom I have spent many pleasant hours.
— from Life of James Buchanan, Fifteenth President of the United States. v. 1 (of 2) by George Ticknor Curtis

well, spose him one whale eye, well, den!" and taking sharp aim at it, he darted the iron right over old Bildad's broad brim, clean across the ship's decks, and struck the glistening tar spot out of sight.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville