God saw the look that she turned on me as she spoke, and if there be indeed a Recording Angel that look is noted to her everlasting honour.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

Remember, in directing letters to young ladies, the eldest one in a family is addressed by the surname alone, while the others have also the proper name; thus, if you wrote to the daughters {275} of Mr. Smith, the eldest one is Miss Smith, the others, Miss Annie Smith and Miss Jane Smith.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

“My son, sir,” said the old man, after securing the drawbridge, “rather had it in his mind that you might happen to drop in, and he left word that he would soon be home from his afternoon's walk.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

—“Leave off,” said the old man, and sprang up from the ground, “strike me no more, O Zarathustra!
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

‘It’s a stew of tripe,’ said the landlord smacking his lips, ‘and cow-heel,’ smacking them again, ‘and bacon,’ smacking them once more, ‘and steak,’ smacking them for the fourth time, ‘and peas, cauliflowers, new potatoes, and sparrow-grass, all working up together in one delicious gravy.’
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

At Cambridge, “just SHAVING through,” or “making a SHAVE ,” is just escaping a “pluck” by coming out at the bottom of the list.
— from A Dictionary of Slang, Cant, and Vulgar Words Used at the Present Day in the Streets of London; the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge; the Houses of Parliament; the Dens of St. Giles; and the Palaces of St. James. by John Camden Hotten

It was the Dutch, who, for two hundred years supplied the culture of Europe to Japan, introduced Western science, furnished almost the only intellectual stimulant, and were the sole teachers of medicine and science.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

“ She-who-must-be-obeyed commands thy presence, my Baboon,” said the old man as soon as we got to the curtain; “but, oh my dear son, be more careful.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

or, why should thoughts of mistrust, and suspicion concerning that which is future, trouble thy mind at all?
— from Meditations by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
— from The Book of Common Prayer and The Scottish Liturgy by Episcopal Church in Scotland

"My old woman won't give me a moment's peace," says the old man; "and since she has the new hut—which is a fine one, I must say; as good a hut as ever I saw—she won't be content at all.
— from Old Peter's Russian Tales by Arthur Ransome

'Come with me,' said the other man, 'and sleep to-night in the barn, and I'll give you work to-morrow to see what you're able for.' The next morning the farmer brought him out and showed him his cows and told him to take them out to graze on the hills, and to keep good watch that no one should come near them to milk them.
— from The Aran Islands by J. M. (John Millington) Synge

John 16:14— “ he shall take of mine, and shall declare it unto you. ”
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong

Such sea-sickness I never endured, though before I had sailed thousands of miles at sea, and have done the same since.
— from Paris: With Pen and Pencil Its People and Literature, Its Life and Business by D. W. (David W.) Bartlett

'He,' the Spirit of truth, 'shall take of mine, and show it unto you.'
— from The Power of Faith Exemplified In The Life And Writings Of The Late Mrs. Isabella Graham. by Isabella Graham

People of a strange and curious temperament can be happy only under strange circumstances, such as suit their nature, in the same way as ordinary circumstances suit the ordinary man; and such circumstances can arise only if, in some extraordinary way, they happen to meet with strange people of a character different indeed, but still exactly suited to their own.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; the Art of Controversy by Arthur Schopenhauer

[35] “And the Lord said, ‘Yea, behold her, blind in her belief, and lame in her hands which do no good works, and crippled in her feet with evil desires, and seldom and idly does she think of Me; and she is leprous with impurity and uncleanness.’”
— from Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg by of Magdeburg Mechthild

She thought of him standing in the doorway at the hotel, holding up a glass, then she thought of Martin, and so fell asleep.
— from The Captives by Hugh Walpole