This "History of John Bull" began with the first of its four parts entitled "Law is a Bottomless Pit, exemplified in the case of Lord Strutt, John Bull, Nicholas Frog, and Lewis Baboon, who spent all they had in a Law-suit."
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

Historical novel History, of England , Macaulay's; of Frederick the Great , Carlyle's; of Henry VIII , Bacon's; of the Reformation in Scotland , Knox's; of the Wortd , Raleigh's Hnæf (n[e=]f) Hobbes, Thomas Holofernes (hol-[=o]-fer'n[=e]z) in Judith Holy and Profane State Holy Living Holy War Homer , Chapman's; Dryden's; Pope's; Cowper's Hooker, Richard Hooker, Thomas Hours in a Library Hours of Idleness House of Fame House of Life Hrothgar (r[)o]th'gar) Hudibras (h[=u]'d[)i]-bras) Humanism Humphrey Clinker Hunt, Leigh Husband's Message Huxley, Hygelac (h[=i]-j[=e]'lak) Hymn book, first English Hymn to Intellectual Beauty Hymns , Addison's; Cowper's Hypatia (h[=i]-p[=a]'shia) Hyperion (h[=i]-p[=e]'r[)i]-on) Idealism of Victorian Age Ideals Idols, of Bacon Idylls of the King Il Penseroso (il pen-s[)e]-r[=o]'s[=o])
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

There he is at last, I think.
— from An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen

After watching him closely a little while, Allan puts his mouth very near his ear and says to him in a low, distinct voice, "Jo!
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

[279] Ciacco at once perceives by the weight of Dante’s tread that he is a living man.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Unhappily no, they hate it, and love the Counter-Revolution.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

She was faithful to her word; and when Willoughby called at the cottage, the same day, Elinor heard her express her disappointment to him in a low voice, on being obliged to forego the acceptance of his present.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

This message was brought or read to her in a letter one day, when her mother was from home and her father absent as usual in the City.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The knife referred to here is a large strong instrument, for it is intended for cutting through the lateral processes of the vertebrae.
— from Surgical Instruments in Greek and Roman Times by John Stewart Milne

She made a vow to him that she would wear, during a whole twelve-month, a grey frock, tied round her waist with a piece of cord, and such as is worn by the Minor Brethren, the order to which had belonged the blessed Bernardine; this she vowed, in the hope of being, through his intercession, at last rid of the persecution of the Incubus.
— from Demoniality; or, Incubi and Succubi by Ludovico Maria Sinistrari

The latter therefore hold it as long as it pays to do so, and thereafter can abandon it without danger or embarrassment, as soon as its defence threatens to become inconvenient.
— from The Gold Coast Regiment in the East African Campaign by Clifford, Hugh Charles, Sir

On the contrary, Still River joins the Housatonic in a low, broad, and poorly drained plain.
— from Drainage Modifications and Glaciation in the Danbury Region Connecticut State of Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey Bulletin No. 30 by Ruth Sawyer Harvey

The summary of results shows that the highly intelligent are less neurotic, more self-sufficient, and less submissive, as a group, than are the populations with which they are comparable.
— from Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: Origin and Development by Leta Stetter Hollingworth

I understood, and said to him in a loud tone of voice, “I swear to it, Monsieur.”
— from My Double Life: The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt

She did not put this down immediately, but continued to hold it and look at it, till her countenance grew very sad, and she sighed heavily.
— from Aunt Kitty's Tales by Maria J. (Maria Jane) McIntosh

The bones of the head in a little baby are soft and can be pressed out of [pg 183] shape.
— from American Indians by Frederick Starr

We took her in and looked after her as well as we could, but towards the evening I began to feel that she had some presentiments of a tiresome stay, and that if the journey hither lay before her at this moment she would hesitate to undertake it.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse de Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1836-1840 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

Abandoning all that he has been he must seek to become that which he is not, and severing his life from all that has made it his, forego his tastes, stifle his prejudices, ignore his predilections, suppress his emotions, thwart his inclinations, and laughing when he would weep, weep when he would laugh.
— from Bonaparte in Egypt and the Egyptians of To-day by Abdullah Browne

Opposite, left, the body is surrounded by weeping friars, the incredulous judge touching the wound in the side, while the simplest of the friars, at the saint's head, sees his soul carried up to heaven in a little cloud.
— from The Story of Florence by Edmund G. Gardner