There is, in that city of London there, some property of ours which is much at this day what Bleak House was then; I say property of ours, meaning of the suit's, but I ought to call it the property of costs, for costs is the only power on earth that will ever get anything out of it now or will ever know it for anything but an eyesore and a heartsore.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

This conversation soon passed out of my mind, but a few days afterward I was informed that some friends in Boston, including Mr. Francis J. Garrison, had raised a sum of money sufficient to pay all the expenses of Mrs. Washington and myself during a three or four months' trip to Europe.
— from Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington

Since she was of the opinion that he ought to feel flattered by our invitations, she thought it only right and proper that he should never come to see us in summer without a basket of peaches or raspberries from his garden, and that from each of his visits to Italy he should bring back some photographs of old masters for me.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

"I can't help her myself: she's passed out of my reach," she continued.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

I stared at her weather-beaten side heeling steeply towards me; and then she passed out of my range of view.
— from The Island of Doctor Moreau by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

We passed the morning in repeating that we loved each other, and in exchanging over and over again substantial proofs of our mutual passion.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Nautluban ang ákung tudlù sa galingan, The mill took a small piece off of my finger.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

What must be admitted is that the definite images of traditional psychology form but the very smallest part of our minds as they actually live.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

He shall pack out of my house.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton

Then I smelt a smell of sulphur and saw smoke pouring out of my basket.
— from Monsieur Bergeret in Paris by Anatole France

[pg 223] Sound, power of, over matter, 175 .
— from The Rosicrucian Mysteries: An Elementary Exposition of Their Secret Teachings by Max Heindel

No single piece of organic mechanism is oftener or more confidently appealed to by Theists as rendering conclusive evidence on their side than the eye, nor would they run much risk by allowing sentence to go for or against them according as Mr. Darwin has or has not succeeded in his attempt to explain that evidence away.
— from Old-Fashioned Ethics and Common-Sense Metaphysics With Some of Their Applications by William Thomas Thornton

quho, being presente by chawnce at my ressaving both of your firste and seconde paquette out of Madrid, wold needs peere over my shoulder quhen
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

The rules required that each member, in his turn, should produce one or more questions on any point of politics, morals or natural philosophy, to be discussed by the company, and once in three months produce and read an essay of his own writing on any subject he pleased.
— from The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Illustrated by Tales, Sketches, and Anecdotes by Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold) Goodrich

So much the more unanimously must have grown the agitation of the feasters; so much the more wild must have been the scene to any European who could have beheld them there, in the strong sun and the strong shadow of the banyan, rubbed with saffron to throw in a more high relief the arabesque of the tattoo; the women bleached by days of confinement to a complexion almost European; the chiefs crowned with silver plumes of old men’s beards and girt with kirtles of the hair of dead women.
— from The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. 18 by Robert Louis Stevenson

I don't think your difficulties at the Conference will arise from strong preconceived opinions of mine.
— from Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2 by Newton, Thomas Wodehouse Legh, Baron