If the mighty merchant whose benefactions are reckoned by thousands of dollars deem himself worthy, let him join the procession with her whose love has proved itself by watchings at the sick-bed, and all those lowly offices which bring her into actual contact with disease and wretchedness.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Here in the Park I met with Mr. Coventry, where he sent for a letter he had newly writ to me, wherein he had enclosed one from Commissioner Pett complaining of his being defeated in his attempt to suspend two pursers, wherein the manner of his doing it, and complaint of our seeing him (contrary to our promises the other day), deserted, did make us laugh mightily, and was good sport to think how awkwardly he goes about a thing that he has no courage of his own nor mind to do.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In point of fact, thanks to this system of procedure, the old depression, dullness, and fatigue were absolutely conquered, life itself became very interesting again, awake, eternally awake, sleepless, glowing, burnt away, exhausted and yet not tired—such was the figure cut by man, "the sinner," who was initiated into these mysteries.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

YESTERDAY This Day's Madness did prepare; TO-MORROW's Silence, Triumph, or Despair: Drink!
— from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

The First Norwegian Settlers in the Townships of Dunkirk, Dunn, and Cottage Grove, in Dane County, Wisconsin.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

She was now connected by bonds of a political nature with the Prince de Marsillac, the eldest son of the old Duc de Rochefoucauld, whom she was trying to inspire with an enmity toward the Duc de Conde, her brother-in-law, whom she now hated mortally.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Her parents have a large family: they occupy such a station and possess such connections as, in their opinion, demand display; stringent necessity of circumstances and inherent thoughtlessness of disposition combined, have engendered reckless unscrupulousness as to how they obtain the means of sustaining a good appearance.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

' He talked of Dr. Dodd.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The tradesmen came while we were yet speaking; and we moved in a body to old Dr. Denman’s surgical theatre, from which (as you are doubtless aware)
— from The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Only the other day did I forward a recommendation that St. Petersburg should remit a portion of the sentence.”
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

he exclaimed, in a tone of deep disappointment; “and I forgot to give it to her.
— from Pole Baker: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

When the neighbors came with thrilling tales of daring done by some loved one, Janie made some excuse for sending the boy upon an errand or to bed; the contrast was too bitter.
— from Then Marched the Brave by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

Which it will be: the elevator with the index pointing to 'Up' or the one destined 'Down.'
— from Cape of Storms: A Novel by Percival Pollard

But while Jayadeva writes This rare tale of deep delights— Jayadev, whose heart is given Unto Hari, Lord in Heaven— See that ye too, as ye read, With a glad and humble heed, Bend your brows before His face, That ye may have bliss and grace.
— from Indian Poetry Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems. by Arnold, Edwin, Sir

He takes particular cognisance also of the old distinction drawn by von Baer, that Vertebrates show a "double-symmetrical" mode of development ( evolutio bigemina ), the 280 dorsal muscle-plates forming a tube above the notochord, the ventral plates a tube below the notochord, whereas Articulates do not possess this axis, and form only one tube, namely, that round the "vegetative" organs ( evolutio gemina ).
— from Form and Function: A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology by E. S. (Edward Stuart) Russell

A pair of bone-forceps to be next employed to cut off the entire inner condyle and trochlea of the humerus, and then introduced in the opposite diagonal direction so as to detach the external condyle and capitulum of the humerus from the shaft.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

If we differ in our views and think the other is not keeping the Scripture requirement, then [Pg 132] let us differ and not pretend that we are together or that our differences do not amount to anything."
— from Dorothy Page by Eldridge B. (Eldridge Burwell) Hatcher

He was sitting on the railing of the porch, one leg thrown up before him, the other dangling down as he leaned against a post.
— from A Chosen Few: Short Stories by Frank Richard Stockton