Be so kind as to go and take a look at that person downstairs, and if there is any possibility of admitting him, bring him up here.”
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

With no other guide than the ripple of the stream where it met the head of the island, a party of their insatiable foes had ventured into the current, and swam down upon this point, knowing the ready access it would give, if successful, to their intended victims.
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

But we will be even with them; if they leave provisions for themselves anywhere, there also shall they see us marching;" and, turning to Cheirisophus, he added: "But it strikes me, we should sally forth against these incendiaries and protect our country.
— from Anabasis by Xenophon

Old Flathead, empty-headed meddler, know That I am proud possessing such appendice.
— from Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand

867 The only opinion to which I have committed myself is that, whether genuine or not, the Protocols do represent the programme of world revolution, and that in view of their prophetic nature and of their extraordinary resemblance to the protocols of certain secret societies in the past, they were either the work of some such society or of someone profoundly versed in the lore of secret societies who was able to reproduce their ideas and phraseology.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

But the costermongers boast that it is known only to themselves; that it is far beyond the Irish, and puzzles the Jews.
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

and so home again by water, and busy till dinner, and then with wife, Mercer, Deb., and W. Hewer to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “The Impertinents,” a pretty good play; and so by water to Spring Garden, and there supped, and so home, not very merry, only when we come home, Mercer and I sat and sung in the garden a good while, and so to bed. 25th.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

What is there in a pair of pink cheeks and blue eyes forsooth?
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Therefore, what appears for the idea as plant life, as mere vegetation, as blindly impelling force, we shall claim, according to its inner nature, for will, and recognise it as just that which constitutes the basis of our own phenomenal being, as it expresses itself in our actions, and also in the whole existence of our body itself.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

[Pg 22] CHAPTER III INTRODUCING THE CHURCHWARDEN Every time Freddie visited the Old Tobacco Shop after that—and it was pretty often, whether the tobacco box at home needed tobacco or not, for there were a good many things that drew him there, and he hardly knew which was the most fascinating: there was always a chance of gingerbread, and you could usually depend on seeing Aunt Amanda eat pins, and you could look through the two pieces of glass at the double picture and make it all one picture with the people in it standing out as if they were real, and Mr. Toby would often sing about his friends the two old Codgers and talk about their mean ways, and Mr. Punch was always waiting for his father outside the door, so that you had to keep your eyes on the time, or at least the clock (which is different), and sometimes Mr. Toby would let you in behind the counter and let you scoop tobacco into a paper sack, and when his back was turned you could stand under the Chinaman's head with the magic tobacco in it, and look up at it and wonder what would happen if you took just one or two little teeny whiffs—But I forget what I started to tell you.
— from The Old Tobacco Shop A True Account of What Befell a Little Boy in Search of Adventure by William Bowen

I had to put that in a postscript, Mother, because I forgot, too.
— from Up the Chimney by Shepherd Knapp

Methinks that is a princely wager,” added King Harry laughingly.
— from Robin Hood by J. Walker (Joseph Walker) McSpadden

There is a partially shown girl and apparently another boy with a striped shirt in the background.
— from Warren Commission (11 of 26): Hearings Vol. XI (of 15) by United States. Warren Commission

We cannot say that we have found this proceeding of any use, since, by this means, the abdominal muscles are rendered so irritable as frequently to obstruct the examination considerably: it is rather desirable to have them in as perfect a state of repose as possible, in order that no movement of the fœtus, however slight, should escape our notice.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby

Led astray by the praise of the Humanists, he, and other similarly privileged minds, easily exceeded the limits of their calling, abetted as they were by the evil tendency to individualism and personal independence prevalent among the best men of the day.
— from Luther, vol. 2 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

The funeral was a private one; and there is a plain tablet on the wall over his vault, with the following inscription: H. S. E. JOHANNES ABERNETHY, R. S. S. REGII CHIRURGORUM COLLEGII QUONDAM PRÆSES, QUI INGENIO, PROBITATE, BENIGNITATE EXIMIE PRÆDITUS ARTEM MEDICAM PER ANNOS PLURIMOS,
— from Memoirs of John Abernethy With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published by George Macilwain

According to Nietzsche, the history of philosophy from Plato to his own time is a progress of the idea that objective truth (a conception of "the true world") is not only not attainable, but does not exist at all.
— from Nietzsche and Other Exponents of Individualism by Paul Carus

We remarked that some plants of the juria were entirely destitute of fruit, and others exhibited a considerable quantity; this circumstance seems to indicate a palm-tree of separate sexes.
— from Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt

This developing process is no other than habit transmitted, imitation, and practice.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 17, April, 1873 to September, 1873 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various