The singularity of my adventure made me determine to conceal it from every one, since I could not expect that a circumstance so strange should gain credit.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

H2 anchor CHAPTER 8 AS I viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass which hung up in the cabin, and by the dim light of a kind of battle-lantern, I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance, and at the recollection of the terrific reality which I was thus representing, that I was seized with a violent tremour, and could scarcely summon resolution to go on with my part.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The Soul-theory is, then, a complete superfluity, so far as accounting for the actually verified facts of conscious experience goes.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

We cordially embraced; and Mr. Dick and I cordially shook hands; and Mrs. Crupp, who was busy making tea, and could not be too attentive, cordially said she had knowed well as Mr. Copperfull would have his heart in his mouth, when he see his dear relations.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Take none heaviness, said Merlin, for this same child within this twenty year shall revenge you on King Claudas, that all Christendom shall speak of it; and this same child shall be the most man of worship of the world, and his first name is Galahad, that know I well, said Merlin, and since ye have confirmed him Launcelot.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

" While he thus spoke he stood straight up, as if stretching out his neck to the blow, as if ready if the king chose to let the sword fall; and the priest Sigurd, who afterwards was bishop, has declared that the sky appeared to him no bigger than a calf's skin, so frightful did the appearance of the king present itself to him.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

This additional ceremony seemed somewhat stately; however, I repaired to my room, and, with Mrs. Fairfax’s aid, replaced my black stuff dress by one of black silk; the best and the only additional one I had, except one of light grey, which, in my Lowood notions of the toilette, I thought too fine to be worn, except on first-rate occasions.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

If one should require a proof of how deeply and thoroughly the actually barbarous needs of man, even in his present state of tameness and "civilisation," still seek gratification, one should contemplate the "leitmotifs" of the whole of the evolution of philosophy:—a sort of revenge upon reality, a surreptitious process of destroying the values by means of which men live, a dissatisfied soul to which the conditions of discipline is one of torture, and which takes a particular pleasure in morbidly severing all the bonds that bind it to such a condition.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Well, said the king, she is a kind sister; I shall so be avenged on her an I live, that all Christendom shall speak of it.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

“Messrs. Thomas Christmas and the two Landseers have taken their canvases to the Academy (British Institution), to make drawings from the Ananias,” &c., so says the “Annals,” No. 6, p. 436; and there seems to have been a tolerably {47} unwise squabble about the pupils of Haydon and their drawings from this cartoon.
— from Sir Edwin Landseer by Frederic George Stephens

On they spurred in their frantic flight to the Tugela, and Coghill safely stemmed the torrent and landed on the farther shore.
— from The Battles of the British Army Being a Popular Account of All the Principal Engagements During the Last Hundred Years by Robert Melvin Blackwood

Easy and Gascoigne were summoned, listened very respectfully to all Captain Sawbridge said, promised to conduct themselves with the utmost propriety, received a letter to the vice-consul, and were sent with their hammocks and chests in the cabin on board the Eliza Ann , brig, of two hundred and sixteen tons, chartered by government—the master and crew of which were all busy forward heaving up their anchors.
— from Mr. Midshipman Easy by Frederick Marryat

To have a high esteem of them, and to love and search them, as Christ saith, 'Search the Scriptures,' for 'they are they which testify of me' (John 5:39).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan