When others rear their heads, it must pack up its little bundle and retire till its turn recurs.
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

The young man was just then making a hasty transfer of the contents of his pockets, besides cramming into those of his working-suit several articles that he imagined might prove useful.
— from The Copper Princess: A Story of Lake Superior Mines by Kirk Munroe

The road was impassable for carriages or wagons; in fact, horsemen had to dismount and lead their horses in many places up and down the hills, they were so steep.
— from My First Mission by George Q. (George Quayle) Cannon

The hand, I mean, pointing upward, on the top of a blunted obelisk.
— from Tono-Bungay by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

All of this, however, is merely picking up the threads of my thought.
— from Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday

Dr. Tischendorf states that he has since 1839 devoted himself to the textual study of the New Testament, and it ought to be interesting to the orthodox to know that, as a result of twenty-seven years’ labor, he now declares that “it has been placed beyond doubt that the original text... had in many places undergone such serious modifications of meaning as to leave us in painful uncertainty as to what the apostles had actually written,” and that “the right course to take” “is to set aside the received text altogether and to construct a fresh text.”
— from Theological Essays by Charles Bradlaugh

The female yields, since the usual cost to her is merely putting up with airs of superiority at which she can secretly laugh; at worst, the cost is only that intangible thing, self-respect.
— from The Hungry Heart: A Novel by David Graham Phillips