The sylphs and elementary spirits obey me, and fly to the uttermost ends of the world to serve me, and those whom I delight to honour.”
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

His course was evidently to the homestead itself, at which in due time he arrived.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

A young woman, who loves, who doats on you, who dies for you; who hath placed the utmost confidence in your promises; and to that confidence hath sacrificed everything which is dear to her?
— from History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Henry Fielding

What do you deserve to have done to you? Done to me!—as becomes the ignorant, I must learn from the wise—that is what I deserve to have done to me.
— from The Republic by Plato

But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness; that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me, he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was for ever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Lord High Constable of England is entitled to place behind his escutcheon two batons in saltire similar to the one which is delivered to him for use at the Coronation, which is now the only occasion when the office is enjoyed.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

Nor was it displeasing to him to evince that he was unaccustomed to bare boards.
— from Rhoda Fleming — Volume 4 by George Meredith

He may or may not have gone to his grave believing that I was romancing, when I described to him what an ocean-going steamer was like, and did my best to give him some idea of the proportions of a Nile Dahabieh compared with an ocean-going steamer and a man-of-war.
— from A Prisoner of the Khaleefa: Twelve Years Captivity at Omdurman by Charles Neufeld

what is dearest to him—himself?
— from The Existence and Attributes of God, Volumes 1 and 2 by Stephen Charnock

“There is a way,” said the younger notary, with an easy air, “by which madame can meet the payment which is due to her daughter.
— from The Marriage Contract by Honoré de Balzac