And yet the feeling grew ever stronger in my own mind that something observant and something malevolent was at our very elbow.
— from The Lost World by Arthur Conan Doyle

the saddle is made of wood and covered with raw hide which holds the parts very firmly together.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

Blue ladies there are, in Boston; but like philosophers of that colour and sex in most other latitudes, they rather desire to be thought superior than to be so.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It was a few months afterward, and I was sitting in my office when in walked Old Fagg.
— from The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte

I spent an evening on board, and found them making the best of the matter, and determined to rough it out as they might; but my friend S—— was determined to go home in the ship, if money or interest could bring it to pass.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

It does not matter what the end may be, whether political, social, or religious, the system remains the same--the setting in motion of a vast number of people and making them work in a cause unknown to them.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

So—so—then I perceive your Prescription is that I must sin in my own Defence—and part with my virtue to preserve my Reputation.— SURFACE.
— from The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Believe me, noble Lodowick, I have seen The strangest sight, in my opinion, That ever I beheld.
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

And if he say, as is usually said in the case of friends that are gone abroad, It is well that he went, then assure thyself that no latent mischief or enmity may be feared at his hand; but if he answer otherwise, that will be a sure sign that he hath some designs against me, Accordingly thou shalt inform me of thy father's inclinations; and that out of pity to my case and out of thy friendship for me, as instances of which friendship thou hast vouchsafed to accept of the assurances of my love to thee, and to give the like assurances to me, that is, those of a master to his servant; but if thou discoverest any wickedness in me, do thou prevent thy father, and kill me thyself.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

[Sidenote: Infinite multitudes of armed men in Icaria.]
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

Between these extremes we have every gradation, even within the same class; thus, as Sir J. Lubbock has shown 28 there is an Ephemerous insect which moults above twenty times, undergoing each time a slight but decided change of structure; and these changes, as he further remarks, probably reveal to us the normal stages of development, which are concealed and hurried through or suppressed in most other insects.
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

I lost the girl when you walked off with her at the house-smiths' bazaar, and then I had to stick in my oar and answer your personal in the Herald.
— from The Gates of Chance by Van Tassel Sutphen

God himself sets the outer sphere in motion, or rather is the eternal cause of its motion, as the object of its desire; and in the same way each of the other motions has also its proper mover, likewise a pure form or spirit, which moves its sphere in the same incorporeal and unmoved manner as God.
— from A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy by Isaac Husik

"It would be a pleasure to me, Hugh, as well as a matter of pride," he said cordially, but with dignity, "to have Matthew Paret's son in my office.
— from Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill by Winston Churchill

“The lion-hunters affirm that, if Gyt had but persevered a little longer, the animal would have at last released his hold and left Gyt uninjured; that the grip of the lion was more from fear that the man would hurt him, than from any wish to hurt the man; and such is my opinion.
— from The Mission; or Scenes in Africa by Frederick Marryat

While we may differ as to the next war, I do not hesitate to say that Dr. Strong saw infinitely more of the last one than I did.
— from Quill's Window by George Barr McCutcheon

2. The good year of the Hartz, which has been acquired in the house, and consists of two very singular strains, in my opinion not very agreeable.
— from The Natural History of Cage Birds Their Management, Habits, Food, Diseases, Treatment, Breeding, and the Methods of Catching Them. by Johann Matthäus Bechstein