Crowds around, Of every region, every language, stand In mute applause, sooth'd with the pleasing lay.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

If he ever thought himself safe in making a statement, it was then.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

And so she took out the letter, and showed it me, and said if she was to put that in the post-office, it would be rubbed out and not minded and never sent; and would I take it from her, and send it, and the messenger would be paid at the house.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

"For some purpose or other, this man of science is making a study of you.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The money is usually spent in making a sacred bull, lingam, or stone slab, to place on the grave.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

She was sure Margaret would never regain her lost strength while she stayed in Milton; and she herself was afraid of one of her old attacks of the nerves.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Fallit enim vitium, specie virtutis et umbra, / Cum sit triste habitu, vultuque et veste severum —For vice deceives under an appearance and shadow of virtue when it is subdued in manner and severe in countenance and dress.
— 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.

This means that he abandons H. P. B.'s extremely effective use of large and small capitals and italics to emphasise the importance of words like MYSTERIES, OCCULTISM, WISDOM-RELIGION, etc., or SELF, Self , and Self to indicate the three different selves in man, and so robs her text of much of its emphasis and meaning.
— from H. P. Blavatsky; A Great Betrayal by Alice Leighton Cleather

To the women of America, whose sympathies know no distinction of cline, or sect, or color, the suffering slave is making a strong appeal.
— from The Conflict with Slavery Part 1 from The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume VII by John Greenleaf Whittier

Still it may appear so later.
— from One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Edward J. (Edward James) Wickson

In the first place, he urged her to leave Brussels and settle in Mons; and, secondly, he had refused to receive her Conrad, who had grown up into a steady, good-looking, but in no respect remarkable young man, in one of his regiments, with the prospect of promotion to the rank of officer.
— from Barbara Blomberg — Volume 10 by Georg Ebers

"Nothin' much," says I. "Me and Snivens and the twins is left.
— from Side-stepping with Shorty by Sewell Ford

The hired servant's subjection is mercenary and servile; but the subject's subjection is civil, free, voluntary, liberal, and loving to a lawful king.
— from A Hind Let Loose Or, An Historical Representation of the Testimonies of the Church of Scotland for the Interest of Christ. With the True State Thereof in All Its Periods by Alexander Shields

Philammon gazed with wonder on his strange hosts, their pale complexions, globular heads and faces, high cheek-bones, tall and sturdy figures; their red beards, and yellow hair knotted fantastically above the head; their awkward dresses, half Roman or Egyptian, and half of foreign fur, soiled and stained in many a storm and fight, but tastelessly bedizened with classic jewels, brooches, and Roman coins, strung like necklaces.
— from Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face by Charles Kingsley

The distance, however, of the attacking batteries from the defences of Paris was very great, nor was their artillery powerful; and it cannot be said that they succeeded in making a serious or lasting impression.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various