She went through, in that brief interval of her infant life, emotions such as some never feel; it was in her constitution: she would have more of such instants if she lived.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

No slave's vote is other than a nuisance, whensoever, or wheresoever, or in what manner soever, it is given.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The intensive pronoun ipse , himself , stems ipso- , ipsā- , is declined like ille ( 666 ), but has the nominative and accusative neuter singular ipsum .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

“And what do you think I said?”—lowering his voice—“well done, general, said I; I am quite of your mind.”
— from Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

They comfort him by night and day; They light his little life alway; He hath no thought of coming woes; He hath no care of life or death, Scarce outward signs of joy arise, Because the Spirit of happiness And perfect rest so inward is; And loveth so his innocent heart, Her temple and her place of birth, Where she would ever wish to dwell, Life of the fountain there, beneath Its salient springs, and far apart, Hating to wander out on earth, Or breathe into the hollow air, Whose dullness would make visible Her subtil, warm, and golden breath, Which mixing with the infant's blood, Fullfills him with beatitude.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

43: ‘The fairies dance in circles in dry places; and the Scripture saith that the walk of evil spirits is in dry places.’
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

The knight seemed to resent the attacks of slumber, as so many impertinent attempts to interrupt their entertainment; he cursed his own propensity to sleep, imputing it to the d—-ed French climate, and proposed to engage in some pastime that would keep them awake.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

“No; but she has become queen of Paris, ad interim, and since she could not venture at once to establish herself in the Palais Royal or the Tuileries, she is installed at the Hotel de Ville, where she is on the point of giving an heir or an heiress to that dear duke.”
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

you don't know—you don't suspect—nobody knows—what a surprise is in store for you!'
— from Armorel of Lyonesse: A Romance of To-day by Walter Besant

"Where shall I send to you, sir, if I have any news that it is urgent you should know of?"
— from A Jacobite Exile Being the Adventures of a Young Englishman in the Service of Charles the Twelfth of Sweden by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Pat shut off his flash quickly, stuck it in his pocket backed off with a low relieved, “All right Kid, you'll do.
— from The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill

It could consistently, and without being seriously interfered with, violate such laws as suited its interests, while calling for the enactment or enforcement of other laws which favored its designs and enhanced its profits.
— from History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus Myers

Sometimes it is a compulsory, sometimes a willing mediation.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

In the inscriptions an Initial Series is invariably preceded by the so-called "introducing glyph," the Maya name for which is unknown.
— from An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs by Sylvanus Griswold Morley

The arguer should always carefully scrutinize the testimony of a witness that has any special interest in the matter for which evidence is being sought.
— from Practical Argumentation by George K. (George Kynett) Pattee

“Stand right there,” for “Stand precisely where you are” or “stand just at that spot” is not approved; so is it also with “Do this right away” for “do this instantly.”
— from A Desk-Book of Errors in English Including Notes on Colloquialisms and Slang to be Avoided in Conversation by Frank H. Vizetelly

"No, my dear child; dear knows I'm ready an' willin' to hyar all you want to say if it eases yo' mind any.
— from Southern Hearts by Florence Hull Winterburn