For so surely as we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees right to lift the burden that is hard upon us.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

a religion as Christianity, which does not touch reality at a single point and which goes to pieces the moment reality asserts its rights at any point, must be inevitably the deadly enemy of the “wisdom of this world,” which is to say, of science —and it will give the name of good to whatever means serve to poison, calumniate and cry down all intellectual discipline, all lucidity and strictness in matters of intellectual conscience, and all noble coolness and freedom of the mind.
— from The Antichrist by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

There was an impressive silence; Morcerf alone knew not why such profound attention was given to an orator who was not always listened to with so much complacency.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Her beauty troubles us for a moment, and when, like a thing that falls through water, she passes away, we gaze after her with wistful eyes.
— from Intentions by Oscar Wilde

They had been blessed with a speedy passage, and were greatly pleased with the country and the people; but of what avail was all this?
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

And now, at last, we were fairly in the renowned SOUTH PASS, and whirling gayly along high above the common world.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

He told James likewise of the Tower of London, which is always guarded by soldiers, and in one part of which he had seen lions, tigers, a wolf, a spotted panther, a white Greenland bear, and other wild beasts, with many sorts of monkeys.
— from The Bad Family & Other Stories by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

He then said he thought Easton was concealed in a small compass, and that he expected to find him in a similar place, and was going to get him before he left.
— from The Life of John Taylor Third President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints by B. H. (Brigham Henry) Roberts

she panted, as with great starry eyes she looked down upon the splendid company.
— from Maid Sally by Harriet A. (Harriet Anna) Cheever

The other bowed hurriedly, murmured something placatingly, and was gone.
— from Frigid Fracas by Mack Reynolds

Of course it is pleasant and human for people to meet together in some place and worship God—but I think such a meeting should be quite without any ostentation—and that all our prayers should be as simple as possible.
— from The Treasure of Heaven: A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli

She had slipped past, and was gone.
— from The Swindler and Other Stories by Ethel M. (Ethel May) Dell

We then specified places at which garbage, etc., should be dumped.
— from Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police by R. G. (Roderick George) MacBeth