It was after this some considerable time, that being upon the top of the hill at the east side of the island, from whence, as I have said, I had, in a clear day, discovered the main or continent of America, Friday, the weather being very serene, looks very earnestly towards the mainland, and, in a kind of surprise, falls a jumping and dancing, and calls out to me, for I was at some distance from him.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

But when the echoes had fully ceased, a light laughter at once pervaded the assembly; the musicians looked at each other and smiled as if at their own nervousness and folly, and made whispering vows, each to the other, that the next chiming of the clock should produce in them no similar emotion; and then, after the lapse of sixty minutes, (which embrace three thousand and six hundred seconds of the Time that flies,) there came yet another chiming of the clock, and then were the same disconcert and tremulousness and meditation as before.
— from The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

"In the face of this fact, is there not some justification for the opinion that the United States owe their very existence to the Jews?
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

8 We may assert, with greater confidence, that the keen air of Germany formed the large and masculine limbs of the natives, who were, in general, of a more lofty stature than the people of the South, 9 gave them a kind of strength better adapted to violent exertions than to patient labor, and inspired them with constitutional bravery, which is the result of nerves and spirits.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

This point of view, extended to the analysis of "thought" is urged with great force by J. B. Watson, both in his "Behavior," and in "Psychology from the Standpoint of a Behaviorist" (Lippincott. 1919), chap.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

143 But when he is dealing with anadosis he does not mention the Hippocratic view even to the extent of a single syllable.
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The market-gardeners, crouching, half-asleep, in their wagons, amid the salads and vegetables, enveloped to their very eyes in their mufflers on account of the beating rain, did not even glance at these strange pedestrians.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Another of his illustrations was, “That which is shown to me, is not a vegetable; for a vegetable existed ten thousand years ago, therefore this is not a vegetable.”
— from The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laertius

At times he seemed to be making violent efforts to think of nothing, and one would have said that he looked on his marriage as an unimportant formality, and on his future happiness as a thing not worth considering.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And he says that the latter were not; but that, for aught he can find, they were sent up at the discretion, at first, of the Sheriffes, to whom the writs are sent, to send up generally the Burgesses and citizens of their county: and he do find that heretofore the Parliament-men being paid by the country, several burroughs have complained of the Sheriffes putting them to the charge of sending up Burgesses; which is a very extraordinary thing to me, that knew not this, but thought that the number had been known, and always the same.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Though it is lawful to covet earnestly the best gifts, there is a more "excellent way"—there is that which is more valuable, especially to the possessor—the grace which sanctifies the heart.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

" Why we had chosen Munich is not very easy to tell.
— from The Brother of Daphne by Dornford Yates

Still on his left, in the valley between the Palatine and the Capitoline, though he cannot see it, concealed from view by the great temples of Vesta and of Castor, and the still greater edifice known as the Basilica Julia, is the quarter called the Velabrum, extending to the river, where the Pons Aemilius crosses it— a low quarter of narrow streets and tall houses where the rabble lived and died.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

At Ghazni the snow has been known to lie long beyond the vernal equinox; the thermometer sinks to 10 deg. and 15 deg. below zero (Fahr.); and tradition relates the entire destruction of the population of Ghazni by snowstorms more than once.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Was the capture of Mбzinderбn equal in valorous exertion to the capture of the Brazen Fortress?
— from The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Firdawsi

Inexorably the Court-herald's voice echoed through the arches and out into the garden.
— from A Prince of Dreamers by Flora Annie Webster Steel

Captain Bartlot’s voice echoed through the great ice cave.
— from Stand By: The Story of a Boy's Achievement in Radio by Hugh McAlister

And although he did not outwardly show how hard he had been hit, his resentment was no less furious though less vulgarly expressed, than that of Mimi.
— from The Angel by Guy Thorne

Thus she pressed on to the very end, till that son, worthy of his heroic mother, proudly answered the taunts of his base enemies, even though in their power, preferring speedy death to any lessening of his tragic dignity, and dying before the eyes of the successful and exultant Edward.
— from Stories of the Scottish Border by William Platt

How very extraordinarily thoughtful this young heiress seemed to be.
— from Harum Scarum's Fortune by Esmè Stuart