It was no rapid matter to get there at night, not a lamp or glimmer of any sort offering itself to light the way, except an occasional pale radiance through some window-curtain, or through the chink of some door which could not be closed because of the smoky chimney within.
— from The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy

A most interesting class of men belong to this order, the chameleons; they are not necessarily at loggerheads with themselves, they are both happy and secure, but they cannot develop—their moods lie side by side, even though they may seem to lie far apart.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“I'll take a new name and live a new life.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

[10] Dr. S. Wells Williams, who was familiar with Buddhism during his forty years residence in China, says ("Middle Kingdom," Vol. II., p. 257): "The numerous points of similarity between the rites of the Buddhists and those of the Romish Church, early attracted attention, ... such as the vow of celibacy in both sexes, the object of their seclusion, the loss of hair, taking a new name and looking after the care of the convent.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

From here one may drive to the most important of all the groves in point of number, South, or Stanislaus, Grove, where the trees are not nearly as large, but where there are said to be more than 1,000 of them.
— from Seeing the West: Suggestions for the Westbound Traveller by K. E. M. (Kate Ethel Mary) Dumbell

" "Why trust him then and not now?" asked Lillian.
— from Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. Brame

Religion must wean him from his ancient enemies, intemperance and superstition, and when it has done this, it has rendered a service which may again make of the Slavs a homogeneous race; great, vital, virile and well prepared to play a leading part in the future history of Europe as well as America, where they are now, numerically at least, the most important element in the great immigrant tide.
— from The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow by Edward Alfred Steiner

The ovarian tubes are of large diameter; the ova are nearly spherical and large, namely, 9/400ths of an inch in diameter; they are not numerous, and lie in single layers in the two lamellæ.
— from A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia (Volume 1 of 2) The Lepadidae; Or, Pedunculated Cirripedes by Charles Darwin

The privacy, the obscurity in which I live, alone has prevented me from paying with my blood the penalty attached to a noble name and lineage."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. XXIII.—April, 1852.—Vol. IV. None by Various