Dantès, cast from solitude into the world, frequently experienced an imperious desire for solitude; and what solitude is more complete, or more poetical, than that of a ship floating in isolation on the sea during the obscurity of the night, in the silence of immensity, and under the eye of Heaven?
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

After a time I crawled home, took some food and a strong dose of strychnine, and went to sleep in my clothes on my unmade bed.
— from The Invisible Man: A Grotesque Romance by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

I could fill this volume with reminiscences of Lincoln's career as a lawyer, but lest the reader should tire of what must savor in many cases of monotony it is best to move on.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

Then he added: "I am supported in my creed of materialism by the Lockes, the Tracys and the Stewarts.
— from Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Americanism by Gilbert Chinard

The agents, having general charge and supervision in many cases of more than 5,000 Indians, scattered over large reservations, and burdened with the details of accountability for funds and supplies, have time to look after the industrial training and improvement of a few Indians only.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 3: Grover Cleveland, First Term by Grover Cleveland

I had always supposed that a man who could pay could command a welcome anywhere; but here I was, with nearly four hundred dollars in my pockets, unable to find a lodging because something strange in my clothes, or my eyes, or in my general demeanor, or in all together, stamped me as unusual.
— from The Thread of Flame by Basil King

Slowing somewhat in my collection of military long guns before 1890, my collection of Kentucky Rifles, Colt Pistols, Confederate Revolvers, Confederate Veterans Reunion Badges and certain other items, I began to concentrate more on the Southern Derringers until today I have over fifty of these guns.
— from Southern Derringers of the Mississippi Valley by Turner Kirkland

I cannot reason otherwise: but I believe I am supported in my creed of materialism by the Lockes, the Tracys, and the Stewarts.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

[408] 90 Be sharers in my counsels, O my friends; A common hate we cherish in the house; Hide nothing in your heart through fear of man.
— from Æschylos Tragedies and Fragments by Aeschylus