But having secured a good position as teacher for the coming year, I was permitted to give my note for the amount I could not raise, and so was enabled to graduate without financial embarrassment.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

While I was in Montserrat I knew a negro man, named Emanuel Sankey, who endeavoured to escape from his miserable bondage, by concealing himself on board of a London ship: but fate did not favour the poor oppressed man; for, being discovered when the vessel was under sail, he was delivered up again to his master.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

In all th' omnipotence of rule and power; Foxes and statesmen subtile wiles ensure; The cit and polecat stink, and are secure; Toads with their poison, doctors with their drug, The priest and hedgehog in their robes, are snug; Ev'n silly woman has her warlike arts, Her tongue and eyes—her dreaded spear and darts.
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

But when Miss Rebecca Sharp and her stout companion lost themselves in a solitary walk, in which there were not above five score more of couples similarly straying, they both felt that the situation was extremely tender and critical, and now or never was the moment Miss Sharp thought, to provoke that declaration which was trembling on the timid lips of Mr. Sedley.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

It is true I only saw her for a moment, and your staircase is rather dark; but I saw well enough to see how lovely she was.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

'It makes them weak by candle-light; and I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father when he comes home for the world.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

They pretended to believe that our fugitive slaves were entitled to more rights than their white citizens; perhaps they were right, they know one another better than I do.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

A proposition is a series of words (or sometimes a single word) expressing the kind of thing that can be asserted or denied.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

4. On the second day the savages were eager to come under Cæsar's protection.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

A very different account must be given of the short work entitled 'Timaeus Locrus,' which is a brief but clear analysis of the Timaeus of Plato, omitting the introduction or dialogue and making a few small additions.
— from Timaeus by Plato

The mere names of wind, cold, and snow were enough to pale him.
— from Essays and Dialogues by Giacomo Leopardi

And this Story (without excepting that of the Pool of Bethesda ) is the most monstrously absurd, improbable and incredible of any according to the Letter.
— from Six Discourses on the Miracles of Our Saviour, and Defences of His Discourses by Thomas Woolston

For a second or two she met his gaze steadily and then her eyes fell, but not before he had caught the shy, wondering expression that suddenly filled them.
— from West Wind Drift by George Barr McCutcheon

The sight we saw was enough to arrest us with its strange interest.
— from Rupert of Hentzau: From The Memoirs of Fritz Von Tarlenheim Sequel to The Prisoner of Zenda by Anthony Hope

He went to Europe; she followed; wrote lying letters to her brother—said she was engaged to be married to Louis before her return; told Louis I was going to marry her brother, Warren Googe—in the end she had her way, and always has had it, and will have it.
— from Flamsted quarries by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller

"The ice had begun to form at the edge when we landed, and three days and nights of such frost as we've had since was enough to freeze Ontario.
— from True to the Old Flag: A Tale of the American War of Independence by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

The power that drives the great hull against the rolling masses of water seems to have no sympathy with either the ship or the waves; and drenched from stem to stern, the vessel reels and staggers on her way, kept only to her work by careful use of helm.
— from Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner by Woodes Rogers

Although, as we shall see hereafter, it may frequently or even generally be impossible to specify with exactness the forms of bifurcation in the process of evolution, yet the conception is one of fundamental importance.
— from Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward

Proud of Philippe, she felt he made the ease and happiness of her life,—forgetting that the lottery-office, by which she was enabled to live at all, came through Joseph.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

He assured them that the step thus taken by them would be the cause of still more favour and affection on the part of her Majesty, who would unquestionably, from day to day, augment the succour that she was extending to the Provinces in order to relieve men from their misery.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585e-86a by John Lothrop Motley