Then they collect round the pack in the corner and talk with Tom Moody of past sport, and the merits of Sniveller and Diamond, and of the state of the country and of the wretched breed of foxes.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

The prisoner had been placed in the fore-cabin, where he remained quiet, silent, apparently deaf and dumb.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

“Very true; but what are they doing here?” “Him de syfe and de spade what Massa Will sis pon my buying for him in de town, and de debbils own lot of money I had to gib for em.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

We thought this very characteristic of his eccentric gentleness and of the difference between him and those petulant people who make the weather and the winds (particularly that unlucky wind which he had chosen for such a different purpose) the stalking-horses of their splenetic and gloomy humours.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

These sites are due east of Talikan, and are in Badakhshan.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

And as the Romans in this, held the same opinion with the Greeks: so also did the Jewes; For they calle mad-men Prophets, or (according as they thought the spirits good or bad) Daemoniacks; and some of them called both Prophets, and Daemoniacks, mad-men; and some called the same man both Daemoniack, and mad-man.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

“But why have two of each sort?” asked Danglars.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

This saying means that if the god 22 shall not send them rain, but shall allow drought to prevail for a long time, the Hellenes will be destroyed by hunger; for they have in fact no other supply of water to save them except from Zeus alone.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

And here let me say, Ambrosch did the right thing.
— from My Antonia by Willa Cather

When men talk to me as an individual, and of my relations to law, sin and death, I wish them to recollect that I was never in the garden of Eden.
— from The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume I, No. 10. October, 1880 by Various

He saw a drawn, emaciated face behind the helmet.
— from The Beast of Space by F. E. Hardart

As if to remove all doubt on that point, she furthermore tells us explicitly (lines 904-912) that she would have never done such a deed, in defiance of the law, to save a husband or a child, but only for a brother; and why?
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

Perhaps the strongest feature in his character was prudence, never acting until every circumstance, every consideration, was maturely weighed; refraining if he saw a doubt, but, when once decided, going through with his purpose, whatever obstacles opposed.
— from Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 4 by Thomas Jefferson

So she met David, made a telling speech, pleaded eloquently, flattered skillfully, and David, who never could withstand the beauty and oratory of another man's wife, granted her every request, as he himself confessed and said (I notice David always got particularly pious when he was going to do or had done anything particularly mean) to Abigail: "Blessed be the Lord God of Israel which sent thee this day to meet me: and blessed be thy advice."
— from Fair to Look Upon by Mary Belle Freeley

What the nursing administrator says and does as nurse must reflect the uniqueness of the discipline so that nursing's unique contributions are assured.
— from Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice by Savina O'Bryan Schoenhofer

vii., Wheeler Surveys, &c. (Washington, 1879); Charles Rau, The Palenque Tablet, Smithsonian Contributions, Washington; Caecilie Seler, Auf alten Wegen in Mexico und Guatemala (Berlin, 1900); Harlan I. Smith, "Archaeological Discoveries in North-Western America," Bull. Am.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

To power superior none such hatred bear: Strife and debate thy restless soul employ, And wars and horrors are thy savage joy, If thou hast strength, 'twas Heaven that strength bestow'd; For know, vain man!
— from The Iliad by Homer

He summoned and dismissed a council of Gaulic bishops; and then deliberately assassinated all the princes belonging to his family.
— from Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by John Alberger