The whole position was so tremendous and so absolutely unearthly, that I believe it actually lulled our sense of terror, but to this hour I often see it in my dreams, and at its mere phantasy wake up covered with cold sweat.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

This being so, thou must remember that I am now labouring under that infirmity which women sometimes suffer from, when the craving seizes them to eat clay, plaster, charcoal, and things even worse, disgusting to look at, much more to eat; so that it will be necessary to have recourse to some artifice to cure me; and this can be easily effected if only thou wilt make a beginning, even though it be in a lukewarm and make-believe fashion, to pay court to Camilla, who will not be so yielding that her virtue will give way at the first attack: with this mere attempt I shall rest satisfied, and thou wilt have done what our friendship binds thee to do, not only in giving me life, but in persuading me not to discard my honour.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Thence, I being in a little haste walked before and to the ‘Change a little and then home, and presently to Trinity house to dinner, where Captain Cox made his Elder Brother’s dinner.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

" And Alfred answered, drinking, And gravely, without blame, "Nor bear I boast of scald or king, The thing I bear is a lesser thing, But comes in a better name.
— from The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The real issue is, now that we have them, should we keep them in spite of the tariff iniquities which the Trusts perpetrate on them through Congress, until they have received the best [ 43 ] possible tuition we can give them, or be content to give them their independence when they are already at least as fit for it as the Republics to the South of us, guaranteeing them independence by international agreement like that which protects Belgium and Switzerland?
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Mi rompis ĝin antaŭ longa tempo , I broke it a long time ago.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

It was open, for the day had grown warmer toward noon, and in the quiet square an old man was raking up the fallen leaves into a row of small bonfires, and lifting them in bundles into a little wheeled cart.
— from Jane Lends A Hand by Shirley Watkins

A vast amount of the existing social order is an attempt to compromise between these two injuries, by inflicting a little of both.
— from Church and Nation The Bishop Paddock Lectures for 1914-15 by William Temple

Thence, I being in a little haste walked before and to the 'Change a little
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 by Samuel Pepys

The tons of literature on this State carried away by visitors to supplement and strengthen their impressions, both impressions and literature to be disseminated among their neighbors, will have an effect that cannot be estimated, but which must inevitably bear fruit for California for many years to come.
— from Report of Governor's Representatives for California at Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Commission by J. A. (Joseph Adams) Filcher

Therefore in nowise believe that this comes to pass through want of love, for I swear to you on my portion in Paradise, and make promise to you by every oath that can be made, that, as long as I live, you shall be my only friend, and you alone will I love alway, if this will content you, neither do I withdraw my love from you, for you have in nowise deserved this, nor could my heart, which loves you, consent to it, but it at least behoves you to cease from seeing me, because of the harm which might come to me through it, the which, I well know, will be very grievous to you, and full of sorrow, but whiles that your heart may be sad about it, in nowise will mine be happy.
— from The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by de Pisan Christine

The compressed air is itself heavier than the air surrounding, and the compressed gas in the inner balloon is also less buoyant than before.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 14, October 1871-March 1872 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various

In fact, when, one day, he said that, with my “capacities” and my “intellect,” it would be shameful for me not to accomplish this, that, or the other thing, I believe I almost liked him.
— from Boyhood by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I have no feeling of being a traitor to my sex, when I say that I believe in at least a rough equality of parenthood.
— from Seeing Things at Night by Heywood Broun

She adds: "I have never known persons who exposed themselves for years to constant interruptions who did not muddle away their intellects by it at last.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various