But in not a single instance did it seem as if the wood were imbibing the ethereal essence of humanity.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

‘Shall I do it?’ said the schoolmaster.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

If service is delayed, it should be kept hot but not overheated.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

“Yes; but what should I do if she took it into her head to compose some new stanzas for me?”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Still very pale, she is dressed in slight mourning and wears two beautiful bracelets.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

She is dying," I said dully.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

After more than an hour of this wild exercise, seeing no one, without the slightest reason to think I could be heard, and shrouded in darkness, I shut the grating for fear of the rats, and threw myself at full length upon the floor.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Vance had seen it discussed in some of the papers.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Having said this much to aid us in forming some idea of the glorified body, we shall now proceed to examine one of its attributes, which St. Paul mentions, when he says: "It is sown in dishonor, it shall rise in glory.
— from The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by F. J. Boudreaux

The task of the owning master class is a twofold one, the robbing of the weak owners by the strong ones in wars, and the robbing of the slaves by the masters which under the capitalist system is done in surplus profits.
— from Communism and Christianism Analyzed and Contrasted from the Marxian and Darwinian Points of View by William Montgomery Brown

For now I know I am a coward, and afraid to die, since should I die, I should never see thee any more.
— from A Mine of Faults by F. W. (Francis William) Bain

The fortunes of this great human family; its relations to the white race, with which it is growing up side by side; its developments, its struggles, and its coming destiny, must hold in the future an historic interest of which it would be difficult beforehand to form an intelligent appreciation.
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various

"It is hardly two hours since I dressed it," said Vesta.
— from Geoffrey Strong by Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards

Our charge is that with the great majority of Englishmen the appreciation of art, as art, is blunt, is superficial, is desultory, is spasmodic; that our countrymen have no adequate perception of the place of art as an element of national greatness; that they do not count its achievements among the sources of their national pride; that they do not appreciate its vital importance in the present day to certain branches of national prosperity; that while what is excellent receives from them honour and recognition, what is ignoble and hideous is not detested by them, is, indeed, accepted and borne with a dull, indifferent acquiescence; that the æsthetic consciousness is not with them a living force, impelling them towards the beautiful, and rebelling against the unsightly.
— from The Life, Letters and Work of Frederic Leighton. Volume II by Barrington, Russell, Mrs.

“‘Tumm,’ says he, kickin’ at a rock in the snow, ‘I done it,’ says he, ‘by the ankle.’
— from Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan