That must be Stephen," Lucy went on, not noticing Maggie's faint effort to speak.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

The answer was, "Oh, no; never; she has quite given up dancing.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But if in the world of Nature nothing escaped his sensitive and sympathetic observation, ­ and indeed it might be said of him as truly as of Shelley's Alastor Every sight And sound from the vast earth and ambient air Sent to his heart its choicest impulses, ­ he had studied the world of books with not less sympathy and attention.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Sensational consciousness is something quasi-material , hardly cognitive, which one need not much wonder at.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

However, having no alternative, we feasted them plentifully all the day till the evening; when the governor, getting quite drunk, grew very unruly, and struck one of our most friendly chiefs, who was our nearest neighbour, and also took his gold-laced hat from him.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

Linné tells that Lapps, who otherwise note nothing whatever, are able to recognize individually each one of their numberless reindeer.
— from Criminal Psychology: A Manual for Judges, Practitioners, and Students by Hans Gross

If, as must be so under this constitution, the consent of the subjects is required to determine whether there shall be war or not, nothing is more natural than that they should weigh the matter well, before undertaking such a bad business.
— from Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Essay by Immanuel Kant

The following conjunctions may be used to join the members of a compound subject or predicate: and ( both ... and ), or ( either ... or ; whether ... or ), nor ( neither ... nor ).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by George Lyman Kittredge

Among the many other exceedingly remarkably varieties of torments—every category of sinners having its own—there is one especially worthy of notice, namely a class of the 'damned' sentenced to gradually sink in a burning lake of brimstone and fire.
— from The Grand Inquisitor by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Superstition was her weakest point, and it was only natural now for her to fall under its spell.
— from Ann Boyd: A Novel by Will N. (Will Nathaniel) Harben

The church of St. Felix, out of the walls of Nola, not being comprised under this prohibition, many devout Christians sought to be buried in it, that their faith and devotion might recommend them after death to the patronage of this holy confessor, upon which head St. Paulinus consulted St. Austin.
— from The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. January, February, March by Alban Butler

Work and Win; or, Noddy Newman on a Cruise.
— from Up the River; or, Yachting on the Mississippi by Oliver Optic

But days of confidence were over now, never to be recalled.
— from The Maid of Honour: A Tale of the Dark Days of France. Vol. 2 (of 3) by Lewis Wingfield

In view of the successive stages of Napoleon's isolation,—namely, the armistice, these two subsidy treaties, (p. 418) and the secret treaty of June twenty-seventh signed at Reichenbach,—it seems futile to discuss the question whether or not Napoleon really wished peace in his famous interview with Metternich on June twenty-seventh—an interview which lasted from a quarter before twelve at midday until nearly nine at night, and has improperly been considered as the turning-point in Napoleon's career.
— from The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte. Vol. 3 (of 4) by William Milligan Sloane

Preservation or destruction of a particular individual depends on the fact as to whether or no normal or pathological processes predominate in the total economy of the organism.
— from Nervous Ills, Their Cause and Cure by Boris Sidis

In this wilderness of nature, no wonder that legends should prevail: that fairies are seen sporting in the Hepstè cascades, and that in the dark cavern of Cwm-Rhyd y Rhesg, the ghosts of headless ladies so often affright the romantic girls of these wild valleys.
— from The Philosophy of Mystery by Walter Cooper Dendy

And what is worthy of notice now is that this had continued to be the case to the last.
— from The Life of John Milton, Volume 5 (of 7), 1654-1660 Narrated in Connexion with the Political, Ecclesiastical, and Literary History of His Time by David Masson

[Pg 202] of the Sicilian-Italian murderer—the most rampant and the most flippant—that not so far back the Sicilian-Italian was the most peaceful and law-abiding man on earth; indeed, the law of Sicily was then mostly operative in the passed word of natural noblemen: tending their flocks, pruning their vines, sowing and harvesting, devoutly worshiping their God while helping their neighbors, and knowing next to naught of killing, until it was forced upon them by contiguous peoples bent upon stripping them of their “Isle of isles,” and the grain and vintage thereof.
— from Criminal Types by V. M. (Vincent Myron) Masten