But if by salvation is meant, a trusting in Christ in order to likeness to Christ , in order to that holiness without which no man shall see the Lord, the reply is that the parasite's hope is absolutely vain.
— from Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Henry Drummond

Ch has three sounds, as heard first in child, second in machine, and third in character .
— from The Art Of Writing & Speaking The English Language Word-Study and Composition & Rhetoric by Sherwin Cody

I hardly liked to take it, but she said I must, and that it could form the nucleus of a collection of my own, some day when I was older and times were less strenuous.
— from The Slipper Point Mystery by Augusta Huiell Seaman

Thundering, flaming, lightening in the pulpit; teaching, indoctrinating, drawing after him his students in his lecture-room; sitting among other public men, the most unconscious, the most king-like of them all, with that broad leonine countenance, that beaming, liberal smile; or on the way out to his home, in his old-fashioned great-coat, with his throat muffled up, his big walking-stick moved outwards in an arc, its point fixed, its head circumferential, a sort of companion and playmate, with which, doubtless, he demolished legions of imaginary foes, errors, and stupidities in men and things, in Church and State.
— from Horae subsecivae. Rab and His Friends, and Other Papers by John Brown

I knew nothing of it.' 'There is nothing to know,' said I, more annoyed than I chose to show.
— from Cousin Phillis by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

As this seems such a tall story, I may add that I can produce half a dozen eye-witnesses to the fact if necessary, and vouch for it myself.”
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various

To my shame, I must admit that I could not make head or tail of them.
— from The Magician by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham

I thought of its influence in displacing planets, and of the almost infinite musical variations that were set in motion, and then I compared my crude thrumming with the majestic thunders of the sea, and realized the insupportable beauty of absolute music.
— from The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) O'Brien

That won't do …" "All this," she said, "is more amazing than I can tell."
— from The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells