Instead of trying to still his fears, he encouraged them, with that superstitious impression which clings to us all, that if we expect evil very strongly it is the less likely to come; and when he heard a horse approaching at a trot, and saw a hat rising above a hedge beyond an angle of the lane, he felt as if his conjuration had succeeded.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

As a small lamp cannot withstand excessive electrical voltage, so your nerves are unready for the cosmic current.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Nay, when Louison, addressing him, was like to faint, he took her in his royal arms; and said gallantly, "It was well worth while ( Elle en valut bien la peine )."
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

8, 11):— “ It is not large, and not minute; not short, not long; without blood, without fat; without shadow, without darkness; without wind, without ether; not adhesive, not tangible; without smell, without taste; without eyes, ears, voice, or mind; without heat, breath, or mouth; without personal or family name; unaging, undying, without fear, immortal, dustless, not uncovered or covered; with nothing before, nothing behind, nothing within.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Moreover we may add that emotion leads us to pay most regard to what is agreeable in the present, nor can we estimate what is future with emotions equally vivid.
— from Ethics by Benedictus de Spinoza

Language will become even more important than it already is when the entire planet can communicate with everyone else (via the Web, chat, games, e-mail, and whatever future applications haven't even been invented yet), but I don't know if this will lead to stronger language ties, or a consolidation of languages until only a few, or even just one remain.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

It forms, however, but one county, in which every elector votes for each of its representatives in the State legislature.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And some credit may be due to the asseveration of Boethius, that he had reluctantly obeyed the divine Plato, who enjoins every virtuous citizen to rescue the state from the usurpation of vice and ignorance.
— 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

I had tried to destroy myself; but he, with every effort vigorously made for self-preservation, was doomed to meet the fate he dreaded!
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

These beautiful islands had been "granted" to him by the Utah Legislature, as well as the exclusive right to numerous streams and cañons in other parts of the Territory, that were esteemed especially valuable.
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

" He was eminently energetic, vigorous, quick in action.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 1 by George Thomas Stokes

He is one of those who most persistently introduce delightful items into their works: elaborately embroidered veils, scarves, and gold fringes.
— from Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion by Vernon Lee

Let us help the fire wardens, those men who live on lonely mountain summits or in the midst of the wilderness with eyes ever vigilant to detect the starting of a fire—let us help, I say, these fire wardens to get rid of one nuisance at least, and let us keep our great, cool, wonderful American forests as beautiful as they have ever been and should always be for those who are in a holiday humor.
— from Vacation Camping for Girls by Jeannette Augustus Marks

[Footnote 192: Professor Schiemann: "Wie England eine Verständigung mit Deutschland verhinderte" ("How England prevented an Understanding with Germany").
— from What Germany Thinks Or, The War as Germans see it by Thomas F. A. Smith

" "Sh-show me, little girl—in God's n-name, show me wh-what?" "Eef eet vas true dat
— from Beth Norvell: A Romance of the West by Randall Parrish

All such actions are related (to the plan of Providence); they are not done by Providence; but when a man, or another animate or inanimate being performs some deeds, these, if there be any good in them, enter into the plan of Providence, which everywhere establishes virtue, and amends or corrects errors.
— from Plotinos: Complete Works, v. 4 In Chronological Order, Grouped in Four Periods by Plotinus

The squaws ran to and fro, as is their custom when excited, each vying with the other in heaping invectives upon the culprit.
— from The Fort Dearborn Massacre Written in 1814 by Lieutenant Linai T. Helm, One of the Survivors, with Letters and Narratives of Contemporary Interest by Linai T. (Linai Taliaferro) Helm

Liverpool , Eng., Aug. 20, 1999.—The new electrical ship Glimmerglass arrived here at 12:30, having made the ocean trip from Manhattan (formerly known as New York) in two days, eight hours and thirty-seven minutes, within twenty minutes of the swiftest time ever made by a wholly equipped electrical vessel.
— from Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of the Americas in 1999 by Arthur Bird