Why should I read dismal books, indeed?
— from Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

The dad was better, so I ran down here to see for myself.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

“My dear,” cried she, “I really do not know you this morning,-you have certainly been taking a lesson of Lady Louisa.”
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

The above-mentioned Cossack chief Shestakoff had, during his sojourn in Russia, distributed various rough contour sketches of northeastern Asia.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

While the present situation is radically diverse in theory and much changed in fact, the factors of the older historic situation still persist sufficiently to maintain the educational distinction, along with compromises which often reduce the efficacy of the educational measures.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

When therefore any religion has struck its roots deep into a democracy, beware lest you disturb them; but rather watch it carefully, as the most precious bequest of aristocratic ages.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

There were several sanctuaries in Rome dedicated to her, the principal of which was on the Capitol, where it was the custom of generals, after success had attended their arms, to erect statues of the goddess in commemoration of their victories.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

Rachel considered that she ought to pursue her advantage, and in a voice light and yet firm, good-natured and yet restive, she said— "I really don't think anybody has the right to talk to me about Mr. Fores....
— from The Price of Love by Arnold Bennett

Then, standing as he was, his body slowly bent forward upon itself as if curling up, and with a crash of steel it rolled down the bank into the pool of water, where the lance snapped under it.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

The friable ant-hilt was broken open, and the earthen galleries scattered in ruins down the slope.
— from Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen by Ernest Thompson Seton

The girl shyly offered more of the corn-bread as she saw it rapidly disappearing, pleased to see him eat so eagerly, yet abashed at having nothing else to offer.
— from The Mountain Girl by Payne Erskine

Alarm the pungy captains; fur Johnson'll try to run us by sail, I reckon, down the bay to Norfolk.
— from The Entailed Hat; Or, Patty Cannon's Times by George Alfred Townsend

He made himself known at once, and was confirmed in his surmise that the Viceroy had [Pg 332-334] set forth with his troops early in the morning and was still in reaching distance on the road. ...
— from Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer: A Romance of the Spanish Main by Cyrus Townsend Brady

Addressing himself to Fouquet, he said, "I really don't know, monsieur, why you should solicit the pardon of these men.
— from The Vicomte de Bragelonne Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" by Alexandre Dumas

We thus see that the authentic materials for the early history of Rome were meagre and imperfect—that the annals of the Pontiffs and public monuments had perished—that the Leges Regiæ , Twelve Tables, and remains of the religious or ritual books of the Pontiffs, could throw no great light on history, and that the want of better materials was supplied by false, [pg 64] and sometimes incredible relations, drawn from the family traditions— “ ad ostentationem scenæ gaudentis miraculis aptiora quàm ad fidem 132 .”
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. II by John Colin Dunlop

And so I ring down the curtain on the old-time conjurers.
— from The Old and the New Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans