In the solitude of my spirit, I see clouds of dust raised on the highways of the south; I see the bleeding footsteps; I hear the doleful wail of fettered humanity, on the way to the slave markets, where the victims are to be sold like horses, sheep, and swine, knocked off to the highest bidder.
— from My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass

" "But with a strange kind of tenderness, if he can leave her with such indifference, such carelessness of the future, as you attribute to him.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The Sun is so called, on account of his supposed father, Hyperion, who was one of the Titans.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

30 Great God, I had rather be / A Pagan suckled in some creed outworn; / So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, / Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

For WIT lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety, wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures and agreeable visions in the fancy; JUDGMENT, on the contrary, lies quite on the other side, in separating carefully, one from another, ideas wherein can be found the least difference, thereby to avoid being misled by similitude, and by affinity to take one thing for another.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

As she dressed with a flutter, in her little stage room, hearing the voices outside, seeing Mr. Quincel hurrying here and there, noting Mrs. Morgan and Mrs. Hoagland at their nervous work of preparation, seeing all the twenty members of the cast moving about and worrying over what the result would be, she could not help thinking what a delight this would be if it would endure; how perfect a state, if she could only do well now, and then some time get a place as a real actress.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

She may be a real success if she can only convince herself that this is her forte.
— from Applied Psychology for Nurses by Mary F. Porter

“There’s one thing in my mind,” he said, in some confusion of voice.
— from Jaunty Jock, and Other Stories by Neil Munro

The days of the old pagan, "suckled in some creed outworn," are regretted in Wordsworth's sonnet; for the old pagan held to the poetical view that a star was the chariot of a deity.
— from Social Rights And Duties: Addresses to Ethical Societies. Vol 1 [of 2] by Leslie Stephen

The patient was for twenty-four hours in a half-sleep, the extremities, meantime, were much jerked, the speech sometimes coherent and sometimes incoherent; she cried out to her friends, etc., but had no severe convulsion-fit with spasm of glottis.
— from Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it by Francis Edmund Anstie

"Who else?" said I. "She came out from here to say good-bye to me in the garden.
— from Jaffery by William John Locke

It is very true, without close inspection, and comparing the results of different swarms in similar cases, one might arrive at such conclusion.
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

Miss Constantine was so cordial, so interested, so congratulatory on his appointment.
— from Tales of two people by Anthony Hope

About half a mile west of the church is a chalybeate spring, much frequented; it has been found serviceable in several cases of debility, indigestion, &c.
— from Survey of the High Roads of England and Wales. Part the First. Comprising the counties of Kent, Surrey, Sussex, Hants, Wilts, Dorset, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall. etc. by Edward S. Mogg