But even admitting this was so, it is psychological subtlety, I suppose, that discerns that under certain circumstances I become as bloodthirsty and keen-sighted as a Caucasian eagle, while at the next I am as timid and blind as a mole.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

the shell is smooth thin of an oval form or like that of the common mussle, and sky blue colour.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As for Pierre Gringoire, he succeeded in saving the goat, and he won success in tragedy.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

But perhaps she is tolerated because she is said to be a goddess, and not a god.
— from The City of God, Volume I by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Its site is supposed to be at the modern Sanderli or Sandarlio.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

The thresher of the last sheaf is said to “beat the Horse.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Scheih Ibrahim spread the table in front of a sofa, and all three ate together.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

Sergeant is sorry to add that the other man is not prepared with the money either.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

I came: When suddenly I saw thee sicken, And weeping, hide thine anguished face, Revolted, maddened, horror-stricken, At memories of foul disgrace.
— from White Nights and Other Stories The Novels of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Volume X by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"Sir," I said, "to return a second time to this subject will be neither to your nor to my taste; but, as we have entered upon it, let us go through with it.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Saldáre il sángue, to stanch bloud.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

We are not aware that the author of the [423] work before us takes this view of the matter; but it is one so irresistibly suggested to us by the juxtaposition of the two statements—society before the council, and the council before society, that we cannot avoid expressing it.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

It is something, I submit, to cherish in one's heart even a solitary episode untarnished by any ignoble shame.
— from Captain Macedoine's Daughter by William McFee

That if the matter be of God, He will in due time send suitable individuals, so that comparatively little of my time will be taken up in this service.
— from A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. Part 1 by George Müller

Shall I see thy feasting presence thronged with baron, knight, and page?
— from The Two Twilights by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Sometimes it seems to exercise a distinctly illuminating influence.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Song of Solomon and the Lamentations of Jeremiah by Walter F. (Walter Frederic) Adeney

And for an appendix vnto the ende of my worke, I haue thought it not impertinent, to exhibite to the graue and discreet iudgements of those which haue the chiefe places in the Admiraltie and marine causes of England, Certaine briefe extracts of the orders of the Contractation house of Siuil in Spaine, touching their gouernment in sea-matters: together with The streight and seuere examination of Pilots and Masters before they be admitted to take charge of ships, aswell by the Pilot mayor, and brotherhood of ancient Masters, as by the Kings reader of The lecture of the art of Nauigation, with the time that they be enioyned to bee his auditors, and some part of the questions that they are to answere vnto.
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation — Volume 12 America, Part I by Richard Hakluyt

The shell doth break, the chick's at liberty, The flesh falls off, the soul mounts up on high But both do not enjoy the self-same plight; The soul is safe, the chick now fears the kite.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

Do, dear,” she insisted, seeing that he hesitated.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth