The heart of Mrs. Wilcox was alone hidden, and perhaps it is superstitious to speculate on the feelings of the dead.
— from Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

As for me, I was a mere infant at the head of my own table; and hardly ventured to glance at the respectable phenomenon, who had come from Heaven knows where, to put my establishment to rights.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

He asked me the history of my earlier years.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I believe now thou wouldst have all the money thou hast of mine go in thy wages.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

When a man said to him once, “Most people laugh at you;” “And very [239] likely,” he replied, “the asses laugh at them; but they do not regard the asses, neither do I regard them.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

These things were always regarded as the penalties of the Fall; as part of the humiliation of mankind, as bad in themselves.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
— from The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce

O may Tibur, founded by a Grecian colony, be the habitation of my old age!
— from The Works of Horace by Horace

Then I judged the man was foddering his beasts, and I knew the hour of my deliverance was at hand.
— from Ben o' Bill's, the Luddite: A Yorkshire Tale by D. F. E. Sykes

At last in a wild country of rugged mountains and deep, thickly wooded valleys, where the habitat of man seemed far distant, he ceased his flight.
— from Black Bruin: The Biography of a Bear by Clarence Hawkes

She could hardly believe that they were real birds, for doves are not in the habit of moving about after sundown.
— from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf

But if Christianity, instead of a form of written words, is a character sent to us by God, to manifest his will in the flesh, and to reveal living Truth in a living being; if Jesus himself is the record we are to study; if it is not an inspired Book but an inspired Life that is the gift of God; if his works of Power and Love, his actions and his sufferings, his holy living and dying, are the full and spiritual Scriptures imprinted on humanity by God’s own hand, then the whole work of a Christian is to understand and love that Character,—then is the Revelation like a light shining in a dark place, “a salvation prepared before the face of all people,” “a light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory of his people Israel,” a ray of God’s light shining into the heart of man, touching the mountain tops of humanity and piercing the deep valleys, that all flesh may see it together.
— from Unitarianism Defended A Series of Lectures by Three Protestant Dissenting Ministers of Liverpool by John Hamilton Thom

Going with his father to carry out some repairs to the house of Mr. B. Nankivell, at Mithian, the boy discovered that in one of the rooms hung a painting of a farmplace.
— from Cornish Worthies: Sketches of Some Eminent Cornish Men and Families, Volume 2 (of 2) by Walter H. (Walter Hawken) Tregellas

Still a restless spirit was within me; I heard of the successes of various bands of Thugs in different directions: men came and boasted of their exploits, and again I longed to be at the head of my gallant fellows, and to roam awhile striking terror into the country.
— from Confessions of a Thug by Meadows Taylor

One of them, Marcus Valerius Maximus, afterwards called from this campaign the "hero of Messana" (-Messalla-), achieved a brilliant victory over the allied Carthaginians and Syracusans.
— from The History of Rome, Book III From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States by Theodor Mommsen

[52] While the plate remained in the hands of Mrs. Hogarth impressions were sold at that price, but were afterwards reduced to three shillings.
— from Hogarth's Works, with life and anecdotal descriptions of his pictures. Volume 2 (of 3) by John Ireland