“They will have nothing to do, then at this end?” said Mordaunt.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Each 'now' is the feeling of a separate bit of time, and the exact sum of the bits never makes a very clear impression on our mind.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

And so he went on naming a number of knights of one squadron or the other out of his imagination, and to all he assigned off-hand their arms, colours, devices, and mottoes, carried away by the illusions of his unheard-of craze; and without a pause, he continued, “People of divers nations compose this squadron in front; here are those that drink of the sweet waters of the famous Xanthus, those that scour the woody Massilian plains, those that sift the pure fine gold of Arabia Felix, those that enjoy the famed cool banks of the crystal Thermodon, those that in many and various ways divert the streams of the golden Pactolus, the Numidians, faithless in their promises, the Persians renowned in archery, the Parthians and the Medes that fight as they fly, the Arabs that ever shift their dwellings, the Scythians as cruel as they are fair, the Ethiopians with pierced lips, and an infinity of other nations whose features I recognise and descry, though I cannot recall their names.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

And on the other hand, sometimes they all take after their mother; for instance, if her external soul is a tortoise, all the external souls of her sons and daughters will be tortoises too.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

Shavians think about the embryo; Spiritualists about the ghost; Christians about the man.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

Then a flying squadron from the Good Citizens' League called on the unfair papers and explained that no ex-soldier could possibly do such a thing, and the editors saw the light, and retained their advertising.
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

This accumulated testimony effectually staggered Mr. Monks.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

Then start making the floating platform or raft ( rakit ) by chopping a plantain stem (any kind will do) into three lengths ( di-k’ratkan tiga ), and then skewering these lengths together at their ends so as to form a triangle.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The revolutionaries of the Haywood and Debs type and the evolutionary Socialists of the col
— from The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, July, 1913 Vol. LXXXVI. New Series: Vol. LXIV. May to October, 1913 by Various

He liked to feel well dressed too, and that Eleanor should also be so; and that she should be the kind of woman who carried off beautiful and expensive clothes.
— from The Hall and the Grange: A Novel by Archibald Marshall

Sensation alone is sufficiently ephemeral to be true to life, whereas a poem that attempts to express some significance beneath phenomena has a tendency to outlast its generation, and runs the risk of endurance, and of becoming, in some notable instances, even immortal, whereas such a reversion toward stability either in a poem or in a person shows each alike false to our faith in flux.
— from The Joys of Being a Woman, and Other Papers by Winifred Margaretta Kirkland

The advantage to every studious reader of having the divine original close by him for comparison is too obvious to need a word more.
— from Expositor's Bible: The Epistles of St. John by William Alexander

At this and the earlier stage lymphoid tissue, like that surrounding the suprarenal bodies in the adult, is found adjacent to these bodies.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 1 (of 4) Separate Memoirs by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour

Then a terrific explosion shook the foundations of the house.
— from The Outrage by Annie Vivanti

[52] The reader is referred to a treatise entitled Studies in St. Augustine , which is published in the same volume as the Problems of the Age , at the office of this magazine.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

There are others upon the island that might enable them to eke out their miserable existence: there are two especially sought after by such Europeans as visit this dreary land,—the “wild celery” ( opium antarcticum ), and the “scurvy grass” ( cardamine antiscorbutica ); but for these the Fuegian cares not.
— from Odd People: Being a Popular Description of Singular Races of Man by Mayne Reid

She chanced, however, upon troublous times, and therefore everything she did was reckoned a crime, as also many things which she did not do, such as the stealing of the Diamond Necklace.
— from Stories About Famous Precious Stones by Adela E. (Adela Elizabeth Richards) Orpen