I was in doubt, and then everything took a hue of unreality, and I did not know what to trust, even the evidence of my own senses.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

The girl followed through the woods and kept him in sight until he came down to the river, where she saw her husband change to a hooting owl ( uguku′ ) and fly over to a pile of driftwood in the water and cry, “
— from Myths of the Cherokee Extract from the Nineteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology by James Mooney

There are, however, objections urged against the Hedonistic method which go much deeper; and by some writers are pressed to the extreme of rejecting the method altogether.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

In the evening, she sat with us in the drawing-room, and would sing and play to amuse him or us, as she pretended, and was very attentive to his wants, and watchful to anticipate them, though she only talked to me; indeed, he was seldom in a condition to be talked to.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

The sight of a happy man arouses in others envy rather than love, we are ready to accuse him of usurping a right which is not his, of seeking happiness for himself alone, and our selfishness suffers an additional pang in the thought that this man has no need of us.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Both terms are, however, often used as though they were interchangeable.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The religious revolution in Scotland in 1560 saved the Elizabethan settlement for the time; and Philip of Spain trifled away his opportunities until a united England overthrew his Armada, which came thirty years too late.
— from A History of the Reformation (Vol. 2 of 2) by Thomas M. (Thomas Martin) Lindsay

He quickly saw, however, that my imprisonment was not due to any hasty or unconsidered act, and he did not press the matter for long.
— from Prisons & Prisoners: Some Personal Experiences by Lytton, Constance, Lady

He had felt that the French maid would know how to put just the right touch to Aunt Crete’s pretty hair to take away her odd, “unused” appearance.
— from Aunt Crete's Emancipation by Grace Livingston Hill

The Movement met in what had been the children's room, where unpaid ladies of the afternoon had once upon a time read stories to other people's offspring.
— from A Fall of Glass by Stanley R. Lee

All these various articles were displayed before the dim eyes of the invalid, for whose benefit they were to be reduced to a heap of useless ashes; and a faint smile of satisfaction passed over Terah's countenance: but he spoke not.
— from The Pilgrims of New England A Tale of the Early American Settlers by Mrs. (Annie) Webb-Peploe

There seemed to be, about all these types of existence, the freedom and carelessness of the life of primitive times, a happiness of use and wont that gave the lie to our philosophical platitudes, and wrought a cure of all its swelling passions in the heart.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

I had almost forgot my resentments against the pretended nephew!—So many agreeable things said, made me think, that, if you should advise it, and if I could bring my mind to forgive the wretch for an outrage so premeditatedly vile, and could forbear despising him for that and his other ungrateful and wicked ways, I might not be unhappy in an alliance with such a family.
— from Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 6 by Samuel Richardson