If you require to know positively what she is capable of, read her past history on her left shoulder.”
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

In one way and another,’ said I, conscious of reddening a little as I thought of the hours and hours I had devoted to fagging about town, and to and fro upon the Norwood Road, ‘I have abundance of time.’
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

I could also mention many other sayings in contempt of riches, both from the Bible and other good books; but I know you are not very fond of those things, I shall only assure you, that if you take on to be a soldier, I will do the same; and then if we should both be slain, you will not only have your own blood to answer for, but mine also: and peradventure the lives of all those whom we shall kill in battle.
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

If by this superhuman concentration one succeeded in converting or resolving the two cosmoses with all their complexities into sheer ideas, he would then reach the causal world and stand on the borderline of fusion between mind and matter.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

The subtile, intuitive communication, or, rather, the vague and formless impression of something to be told, had made her yield unresistingly to his impulse.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I was in the back room myself, and so was the waiter; so I could only rush out in time to find the wall splashed and the shop empty.
— from The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

While they amused themselves in these discussions, Fathom, after having lain some hours silent, in consequence of Renaldo's advice, could no longer suppress the astonishment of his mind, but, addressing himself to his wife, “O Elenor!” said he, “my delirium is now past; though I still remember the phantasies of my distempered brain.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

Clearly this is all inexplicable if we seek the moving causes outside the figures and conceive the human race as striving, in consequence of rational reflection, or something analogous to this (as moving threads), after those good things held out to it, the attainment of which would be a sufficient reward for its ceaseless cares and troubles.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Whether the newspapers liked it or not, they would have to reckon with him; for such a power, once established, was more effective than all the speeches in Congress or reports to the President that could be crammed into the Government presses.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

In short, I can only repeat here what I have said during [Pg 98] the course of these experiments, "If I had not been convinced forty years ago, I should be this evening."
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

First, You are to destroy all Press-Bedsteads which stand in Corners of Rooms, being made up with Boards so close, that the Air cannot penetrate or dry up and consume the moist sulphurous Vapours that are contracted.
— from A Treatise of Cleanness in Meats and Drinks, of the Preparation of Food, the Excellency of Good Airs, and the Benefits of Clean Sweet Beds. Also of the Generation of Bugs, and Their Cure. To Which Is Added, a Short Discourse of the Pain in the Teeth, Shewing What Cause It Does Chiefly Proceed, and Also How to Prevent It. by Thomas Tryon

His successor was his young son Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, shortened into Coniah), or rather the reins of government were taken in hand by his mother, Nehushta.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 1 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Mr. Garrick returned but two days ago, Sir, and I did not receive your tragedy(288) till this morning; so I could only read it once very rapidly and without any proper attention to particular passages though, even so, some struck me as very fine.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole

This last idea, however, which would represent ours as the only generation which has given women adequate opportunities for intellectual development, is one of those self-complacent bits of flattery of ourselves and our own period that is so irritatingly characteristic of recent times.
— from The Thirteenth, Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

[ One of the party steps in, crying out — Room, a room, brave gallants, room, Within this court I do resort, To show some sport And pastime, Gentlemen and ladies, in the Christmas time— poemdiv [ After this note of preparation, old Father Christmas capers into the room, saying, Here comes I, old Father Christmas, Welcome, or welcome not, I hope old Father Christmas Will never be forgot.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 2 (of 3) or Everlasting Calendar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Still I crawled on, resolved to succeed.
— from Dick Cheveley: His Adventures and Misadventures by William Henry Giles Kingston

This river casteth beams where it goes, like the beams of the sun; it shines, it casts out rays of glory unto those that drink thereof.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

One corner of these vast emporiums is latticed off, forming a counting-house, decorated with a coat of white, green, or yellow paint, and shewing its chequers of red tape, for the purpose of sticking orders, letters, or bank-notices for payments, due at the Colonial or West India Bank.
— from Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume 1 (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Mrs. Lanaghan