Where the shadow is regarded as so intimately bound up with the life of the man that its loss entails debility or death, it is natural to expect that its diminution should be regarded with solicitude and apprehension, as betokening a corresponding decrease in the vital energy of its owner.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

There Pencroft observed,— “Suppose, that during our absence, Master Jup takes it into his head to draw up the ladder which he so politely returned to us yesterday?” “Let us tie its lower end down firmly,” replied Cyrus Harding.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The stomach and all the intestines correspondingly contracted; the mesentery appeared healthy; the liver was much enlarged, and darker than usual; the inferior lobe extending downwards, near to crest of ileum;
— from An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners by Archibald Makellar

Eddies and currents of all kinds hang on the skirts of this great 'meeting of the waters,' and hence in the narrows of the Channel, where the Goodwins lie, the tide runs every day twice from all points of the compass, and there is literally every day in the year a great whirlpool all round and over the Goodwin Sands, deflected slightly perhaps, but not caused by those sands, but by the meeting of the two tidal waves twice every twenty-four hours.
— from Heroes of the Goodwin Sands by Thomas Stanley Treanor

"There is little enough difference as it is, perhaps," he said; "they're both blind.
— from Henry Dunbar: A Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

We must retreat to rearward, for that way The champain to its low extreme declines."
— from The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete by Dante Alighieri

And I should like you to understand, sir," he said, drawing nearer to the old man who sat staring with fixed eyes out of a ghastly face, "that, though our duty makes us think of millions where you can think only of one, every effort which the Criminal Investigation Department makes, every trap it lays, every device it contrives to recover your property is equally adapted to finding your daughter.
— from Ambrotox and Limping Dick by Oliver Fleming

He muttered something about the intense folly of a woman who could believe a word out of Gardner’s mouth; said if Emma desired to be made miserable for life she could not take a better way; wished he had never set eyes on the fellow, and then, grumbling at Violet’s begging him to read the letter, he cast his eye over it, and said it was all true, and there was worse, too, if Lady Elizabeth did but know it; but what this was he would not tell her.
— from Heartsease; Or, The Brother's Wife by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

"That is likely enough, Dan.
— from With Lee in Virginia: A Story of the American Civil War by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

"Now that ye take council with silence, men of emptiness, learn of me that there is little enough danger in the fact, even if it be true, that Belshazzar has taken the woman of Babylon to wife.
— from Istar of Babylon: A Phantasy by Margaret Horton Potter