And her sorrow took entire possession of her mind for about six months.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

The gifted man is he who sees the essential point, and leaves all the rest aside as surplusage: it is his faculty too, the man of business's faculty, that he discern the true likeness , not the false superficial one, of the thing he has got to work in.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

“Let us try to penetrate into the interior of the brig,” said the engineer; “perhaps we shall then know what to think of the cause of her destruction.”
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Her hat was a little, flat, glossy, new sailor, the extreme plainness of which had likewise much disappointed Anne, who had permitted herself secret visions of ribbon and flowers.
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Accordingly, it is said that an Æginetan of the name of Onesicritus, having two sons, sent to Athens one of them, whose name was Androsthenes, and that he, after having heard Diogenes lecture, remained there; and that after [246] that, he sent the elder, Philiscus, who has been already mentioned, and that Philiscus was charmed in the same manner.
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

cried Colonel Proctor, whom this word seemed to excite prodigiously.
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

And all the reflections which that strange spectacle would awaken in us to-day; that horrible cell, a sort of intermediary link between a house and the tomb, the cemetery and the city; that living being cut off from the human community, and thenceforth reckoned among the dead; that lamp consuming its last drop of oil in the darkness; that remnant of life flickering in the grave; that breath, that voice, that eternal prayer in a box of stone; that face forever turned towards the other world; that eye already illuminated with another sun; that ear pressed to the walls of a tomb; that soul a prisoner in that body; that body a prisoner in that dungeon cell, and beneath that double envelope of flesh and granite, the murmur of that soul in pain;—nothing of all this was perceived by the crowd.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

It seems, therefore, extremely probable that they will have taken the places of, and thus exterminated, not only their parents (A) and (I), but likewise some of the original species which were most nearly related to their parents.
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

When he saw the executioner prepared to give him the last stroke, he made a fresh declaration to father Bourges, but while the words were still in his mouth, the capitoul, the author of this catastrophe, and who came upon the scaffold merely to gratify his desire of being a witness of his punishment and death, ran up to him, and bawled out, "Wretch, there are the fagots which are to reduce your body to ashes!
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

What thoughts were hers during those anxious days before the Prince of Wales went to the front, when, like any other mother, she took every possible moment to be with him, walking about arm-in-arm with her boy, talking of everything
— from Kings, Queens and Pawns: An American Woman at the Front by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Of this feature, intentionally palpable in a few lines, I shall only say the espousing principle of those lines so gives breath to my whole scheme that the bulk of the pieces might as well have been left unwritten were those lines omitted. . . .
— from A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde

"Thank God," said the earnest pastor, with quivering lip.
— from Ester Ried by Pansy

The deacons just mentioned survived their excellent pastor.
— from Brief Records of the Independent Church at Beccles, Suffolk Including biographical notices of its ministers,and some account of the rise of nonconformity in the East Anglian counties by S. Wilton (Samuel Wilton) Rix

But Hilary's harmless little joke failed to make her sister smile; and the entrance of the girl seemed to excite positive apprehension.
— from Mistress and Maid: A Household Story by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

[43] Should the exhausted patient unaccountably recover after such a ceremony, the lucky medicine-man will be seen for several days after the event on the top of a wigwam, extending his right arm, waving it to the gaping multitude, and boasting of his skill.
— from Musical Myths and Facts, Volume 2 (of 2) by Carl Engel

LV He gave more deaths than strokes, and yet his blows Upon his feeble foes fell oft and thick, To move three tongues as a fierce serpent shows, Which rolls the one she hath swift, speedy, quick, So thinks each Pagan; each Arabian trows He wields three swords, all in one hilt that stick; His readiness their eyes so blinded hath, Their dread that wonder bred, fear gave it faith.
— from Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso

[430] He apprehends all that is good in your heart, and will not suffer a grain of pure gold to be lost; while He sees too every particle of evil, and will not suffer it to continue.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Proverbs by Robert F. (Robert Forman) Horton

“Now,” said the eagle, “place the sheep’s tails on my right wing, and the bottles of wine on my left, and seat yourself between.
— from The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia by A. K. Seklemian

John George’s natural aversion to war, and a lingering attachment to Austria, favoured the efforts of Arnheim; who, maintaining a constant correspondence with Wallenstein, laboured incessantly to effect a private treaty between his master and the Emperor; and if his representations were long disregarded, still the event proved that they were not altogether without effect.
— from The Thirty Years War — Complete by Friedrich Schiller