I could no longer see the Palace of Green Porcelain, and I was in doubt of my direction.
— from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

And she was in danger of making so much noise with her hysterical chokes and gurgles that her sister was obliged to go to her and apply salts and sal volatile to quiet her, instead of pouring forth her indignation at her audacity.
— from A Little Princess Being the whole story of Sara Crewe now told for the first time by Frances Hodgson Burnett

She thought them totally unwarranted, and the repulsion which this exceptional severity excited in her was in danger of making the more persistent tenderness unacceptable.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

And in this argument nearly every one, Athenian and stranger alike, would be on your side, if you should bring witnesses in disproof of my statement;—you may, if you will, summon Nicias the son of Niceratus, and let his brothers, who gave the row of tripods which stand in the precincts of Dionysus, come with him; or you may summon Aristocrates, the son of Scellius, who is the giver of that famous offering which is at Delphi; summon, if you will, the whole house of Pericles, or any other great Athenian family whom you choose;—they will all agree with you: I only am left alone and cannot agree, for you do not convince me; although you produce many false witnesses against me, in the hope of depriving me of my inheritance, which is the truth.
— from Gorgias by Plato

The fire-work was really beautiful; and told, with wonderful ingenuity, the story of Orpheus and Eurydice: but, at the moment of the fatal look which separated them for ever, there was such an explosion of fire, and so horrible a noise, that we all, as of one accord, jumpt hastily from the form, and ran away some paces, fearing that we were in danger of mischief, from the innumerable sparks of fire which glittered in the air.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

I replied: I will begin again at the same point, Protagoras, and tell you once more the purport of my visit: this is my friend Hippocrates, who is desirous of making your acquaintance; he would like to know what will happen to him if he associates with you.
— from Protagoras by Plato

It often happens, too, that I promise whatever is desired of me, that all may be joyful about me.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

“What things, thou tittle-tattle bearer?” “Nay, I bear but what is desired of me.
— from Perpetua. A Tale of Nimes in A.D. 213 by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

"If milor were to hold madame's 'at one side, while I de other, madame might force her emerald parrot pin through him," suggested Marie, which advice was followed, and the widow beamed with satisfaction at the gratifying result.
— from Beyond The Rocks: A Love Story by Elinor Glyn

As we shall note in reviewing the essentials of the pituitary-centered or pituito-centric personality, the personality governed by the fluctuations of activity within the pituitary, people with injured, diseased or mechanically limited pituitaries (because of the smallness of the bony case enclosing them) exhibit defects and perversions of conduct and intelligence directly attributable to affections of the very instincts and functions the pituitary governs.
— from The Glands Regulating Personality A Study of the Glands of Internal Secretion in Relation to the Types of Human Nature by Louis Berman

Mr. Gosse, who prefaces Mr. Heinemann's new series with a study of Björnson's writings, quotes a curious passage in which Björnson records the impression of physical beauty made upon his childish mind by the physical beauty of Naesset:— "Here in the parsonage of Naesset—one of the loveliest places in Norway, where the land lies broadly spreading where two fjords meet, with the green braeside above it, with waterfalls and farmhouses on the opposite shore, with billowy meadows and cattle away towards the foot of the valley, and, far overhead, along the line of the fjord, mountains shooting promontory after promontory out into the lake, a big farmhouse at the extremity of each—here in the parsonage of Naesset, where I would stand at the close of Pg 336 the day and gaze at the sunlight playing over mountain and fjord, until I wept, as though I had done something wrong; and where I, descending on my snow-shoes into some valley, would pause as though bewitched by a loveliness, by a longing, which I had not the power to explain, but which was so great that above the highest ecstasy of joy I would feel the deepest apprehension and distress—here in the parsonage of Naesset were awakened my earliest sensations."
— from Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Quiller-Couch

"If it wasn't that Waseche is depending on me to straighten out this mess, I'd strike out for Ten Bow today.
— from Connie Morgan in the Lumber Camps by James B. (James Beardsley) Hendryx

This ends the first series of visions; and this expresses in general terms what is drawn out more in detail in the next series of visions, Part V. , embracing more particularly the rise and progress of Antichrist.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

While Abernethy was saying this, Kinlay was venting a torrent of oaths and words in disparagement of my father and his men.
— from The Pilots of Pomona: A Story of the Orkney Islands by Robert Leighton

But in the lighter sorts of prose, which aim at entertainment, and in poetry, which is dependent on meter and harmony, form is of preëminent importance.
— from Elementary Guide to Literary Criticism by F. V. N. (Franklin Verzelius Newton) Painter