"And like a wind shall I one day blow amidst them, and take away their soul's breath with my spirit: thus my future willeth it.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Years ago, we know, she insisted on dressing like Priscilla, because "it was right for sisters to dress alike", and because "she would do what was right if she wore a gown dyed with cheese-colouring".
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Repeatedly denounced in the Assembly, he skulked instead of defending himself, and lay concealed in some obscure garret or cellar, among his cut-throats, until a storm appeared, when, like a bird of ill omen, his death-screech was again heard.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

She felt so ill one day that she told Jo she wanted to give her piano to Meg, her cats to you, and the poor old doll to Jo, who would love it for her sake.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

and John sipped his tea with an air of reposeful rapture, which was of very short duration however, for as he put down his cup, the door handle rattled mysteriously, and a little voice was heard, saying impatiently... "Opy doy.
— from Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Assuredly I did not regret this circumstance: if sorrow had any place in my heart, it was that he was gone at last—that he was no longer walking by my side, and that that short interval of delightful intercourse was at an end.
— from Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë

So Iris on dewy saffron pinions flits down through the sky
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

So strong is the faith in these fées that a man meeting unusual success is often described as féed —that is endowed with fairy power or under fairy protection, as Perceval’s adversary, the Knight of the Dragon, states.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

When a sudden turn of the track brought us within easy reach of one of these specters, I felt a sudden impulse of disgust at the sight of a swollen head, with shining skin, utterly without hair, and whose repulsive and revolting wounds could be seen through his rags.
— from A Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne

Troublous times, Miss de Freyne, times such as I never dreamed we should see in our days.
— from Ambrose Lavendale, Diplomat by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The imperturbable clerk smiled blandly through his little barred window, and said, "Gentlemen, we must do our duty scrupulously, I only do for this gentleman what each of you would wish done for yourself under similar circumstances."
— from The Cross of Berny; Or, Irene's Lovers by Girardin, Emile de, Mme

This is an absolutely fast stitch, and approximately 1,000 bags can be sewn in one day.
— from The Jute Industry: From Seed to Finished Cloth by Thomas Woodhouse

Application for Patent: What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is the combination of expansible buoyant chambers placed at the sides of a vessel with the main shaft or shafts by means of the sliding spars, which pass down through the buoyant chambers and are made fast to their bottoms and the series of ropes and pulleys or their equivalents in such a manner that by turning the main shaft or shafts in one direction the buoyant chambers will be forced downward into the water, and at the same time expanded and filled with air for buoying up the vessel by the displacement of water, and by turning the shafts in an opposite direction the buoyant chambers will be contracted into a small space and secured against injury.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln

" Her theatrical experience and miscellaneous reading were of service now, for they gave her some idea of dramatic effect, and supplied plot, language, and costumes.
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott

Besides these, there are currents of electricity in the surface of the earth, sometimes in one direction and sometimes in another, which decrease with the depth; and M. Lamont conceives that this electric system is the cause of terrestrial magnetism.
— from On Molecular and Microscopic Science, Volume 1 (of 2) by Mary Somerville

Its pistil is curved toward the perfect nectary, and the hood, formed of the inner petals, slips off the pistil and stamens in one direction alone, so that when a bee sucks the perfect nectary, the stigma and stamens are exposed and
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

The image of Fortune standing on her wheel occurs elsewhere in Ovid's poems of exile at Tr V viii 7-8 (quoted above) and EP II iii 55-56 'scilicet indignum, iuuenis carissime, ducis / te fieri comitem stantis in orbe deae'.
— from The Last Poems of Ovid by Ovid