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— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

If I only knew where to write to or where to go to, I should feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan since that last letter.
— from Dracula by Bram Stoker

It must be a different Tanais from that of which Herodotus the historian speaks, saying that it is the eighth of the Scythian rivers, that it flows out of a great lake in which it originates, and discharges itself into a still larger lake, called the Maeotis.
— from The Anabasis of Alexander or, The History of the Wars and Conquests of Alexander the Great by Arrian

It was the only word that passed between them on the subject; but in the code in which they had both been trained it meant: "Of course you understand that I know all that people have been saying about Ellen, and heartily sympathise with my family in their effort to get her to return to her husband.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

On returning to the yard at night, the old woman ran to meet me, designing, of course, to overwhelm me with the news.
— from Twelve Years a Slave Narrative of Solomon Northup, a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington City in 1841, and Rescued in 1853, from a Cotton Plantation near the Red River in Louisiana by Solomon Northup

It is the only way by which people should be judged.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

And maybe it wasn’t mesilf that jist died then outright wid the laffin’, to behold the little chap when he found out that it wasn’t the widdy at all at all that he had had hould of all the time, but only Sir Pathrick O’Grandison.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Over the fireplace was a magnificent trophy of weapons, one of which had been used on that tragic night.
— from The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Witness the old wife Aurinia, and the good mother Velled, in the days of Vespasian.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

Taverney obeyed with the resignation he had previously shown and went to join his children, who were hunting for him, uneasy at his absence.
— from Balsamo, the Magician; or, The Memoirs of a Physician by Alexandre Dumas

"If you stay another minute, I'll throw you out myself, by God, I will," said Peter, the Carson temper suddenly blazing up, and rising he advanced towards the other, who, however, did not await his approach, but fled hastily.
— from Hector Graeme by Evelyn Brentwood

It was left for little Lucy, flower-crowned and calmly sweet and gentle under honors, to be guilty of a tragedy of which she never dreamed.
— from The Copy-Cat, and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

It is held, for instance, that when I perceive a red and blue book side by side on a shelf, at a certain distance from me, there have existed, between two material objects, which may be called books, and another kind of material object, which may be called my eyes, certain wave-like motions of a material medium; that there have existed two different sets of waves, of which the one is connected with my perception of red and the other with my perception of blue; and that the relative heights and breadths of the two different sets of waves, and the relative velocity of their movements are very exactly known.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

These four reviews, together with that of Wordsworth's Excursion , written five years earlier ( see page 187 ), and that of Hood and Reynolds' Odes and Addresses ( see page 335 ), make up the total number of reviews that Lamb is known positively to have written.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 1 Miscellaneous Prose by Charles Lamb

She was very pale, and there were rings around her eyes that told of weeping and of vigil.
— from For the Faith: A Story of the Young Pioneers of Reformation in Oxford by Evelyn Everett-Green

Frederick had the paint pot in his hand, and he traced a fine red cross upon the door, all the while making his ribald jests upon the old woman within, he and his companions alike, far too drunk with wine and unholy mirth to have eyes or ears for what was happening close beside them.
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

Our minuteness of detail may seem like trifling in an age so scientific as this; but it is astonishing how much our science is the science of books, and how little, after all, especially in astronomy, there is of personal acquaintance with the objects whose laws we know so well in theory.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various

The other was filled with camp dishes.
— from Boy Scouts at Crater Lake A Story of Crater Lake National Park and the High Cascades by Walter Prichard Eaton