“Soon the strange and delightful sense of emptiness which I felt in my chest extended to my limbs, which, in their turn, became light, as light as if the flesh and the bones had been melted and the skin only were left, the skin necessary to enable me to realize the sweetness of living, of bathing in this sensation of well-being.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

I suppose we must come to it sooner or later—and why not sooner?"
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Crow , “a regular CROW ,” a success, a stroke of luck,—equivalent to a FLUKE .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

The afternoon sun streamed in through the great arched windows and lay in broad squares of light upon the stone floor and across the board covered with a snowy linen cloth, whereon was spread a princely feast.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

Motionless, rigid, staring; moaning in the same dumb way from time to time, with the same helpless motion of the head; but giving no other sign of life.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

With the chieftain of Lawa (precisely in the same predicament), who held the fortress of Kheroda and other valuable lands, Hamira resided entirely at the palace, and obtaining the Rana’s ear by professions of obedience, kept possession, while chiefs in every respect his superiors had been compelled to surrender; and when at length the Saktawat of Lawa was forbid the court until Kheroda and all his usurpations were yielded up, the son of Sardar displayed his usual turbulence, ‘curled his moustache’ at the minister, and hinted at the fate of his predecessor.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Here is the Constitution: "No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due."
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

We see children perpetually running from place to place, to hunt out something new: they catch with great eagerness, and with very little choice, at whatever comes before them; their attention is engaged by everything, because everything has, in that stage of life, the charm of novelty to recommend it.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

There were no signs of Laura's return, and I thought of going out to look for her.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

" "That is evident," I replied; "and for the sake of archaeologists let us hope that these excavations will be made sooner or later, when new towns are established on the isthmus, after the construction of the Suez Canal; a canal, however, very useless to a vessel like the Nautilus.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

Remembering Anna's suggestion of looking through the glass door she stole softly down the stairs, and stationing herself behind the door, looked in on the scene.
— from 'Lena Rivers by Mary Jane Holmes

They carried him to the round-house, and laying 308 him on the floor, poured a dram of aqua-vitæ down his throat, but for a long time he showed no sign of life.
— from The Crimson Sign A Narrative of the Adventures of Mr. Gervase Orme, Sometime Lieutenant in Mountjoy's Regiment of Foot by S. R. (Samuel Robert) Keightley

“Still Austria is so powerful that sooner or later a force three times as big as the Serbian army can be thrown across the Danube to invade the country.
— from Motor Boat Boys Down the Danube; or, Four Chums Abroad by Louis Arundel

And on my attempting to plead with him for a Scottish lady whom his turbulent passions have forced from her country and reduced to a pitiable state of illness, he derided my arguments, sarcastically telling me that had I taken care of my kingdom, the door would not have been left open for him to steal its fairest prize—" Wallace interrupted him: "Heaven grant you may be speaking of Lord de Valence and Lady Helen Mar." "I am," replied Baliol.
— from The Scottish Chiefs by Jane Porter

All the way home Milly had been making virtuous resolutions not to be extravagant and tease her father, to be patient with her grandmother, etc.,—in short, to be content with that state of life unto which God had called her (for the present), as the catechism says.
— from One Woman's Life by Robert Herrick

We may place undue emphasis upon this factor, as other causes are at work, but leaching is a leading source of loss.
— from Right Use of Lime in Soil Improvement by Alva Agee

That it cannot be very early is evident from the mention of the intercalated month, not to speak of the image of Varuna eating the sweet oblation 'like a priest.'
— from The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow by Edward Washburn Hopkins

Philosophers calling themselves Platonic, Peripatetic, Sceptic, Stoic, Epicurean, or these in various mixtures, were to be found at the various seats of learning, Athens, Rhodes, Alexandria, for instance, or at Rome as the seat of empire, or travelling like wandering stars over her vast territory, but these scattered, nebular, and disjointed luminaries shone with a varying as well as a feeble light, which rather confused than satisfied human reason.
— from The Formation of Christendom, Volume II by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

So little is known about the use of the voice by the Quadrumana during the season of love, that we have no means of judging whether the habit of singing was first acquired by our male or female ancestors.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin