He sat up, roused by a new thought.
— from The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton

In some regions, it is said, such must hunt until relieved, but are not slain.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

I usually rode back at night; for the old unhappy sense was always hovering about me now—most sorrowfully when I left her—and I was glad to be up and out, rather than wandering over the past in weary wakefulness or miserable dreams.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

But in order to clear the ground let me make first a larger distinction, into mythical reviewers, bad but useful reviewers, bad and not useful reviewers, and good reviewers.
— from Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism [First Series] by Henry Seidel Canby

The unbidden remembrance brought a new shame with it for that old offence, even while it intensified the sudden remorse he felt for the present one; since Jeanie, in all her sweet maidenhood, had never seemed so hedged about from evil as this Brynhild, whose very womanhood had been hidden beneath her glittering armour of mail.
— from Red Rowans by Flora Annie Webster Steel

The man had been brought up repeatedly, but as no amount of pressure could make him confess, he could not be executed.
— from From Egypt to Japan by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

"We decided just now, Silverbridge, that nothing more should be said about that unpleasant racing business, and nothing more shall be said by me.
— from The Duke's Children by Anthony Trollope

The organization of the German People for defense will be uniformly regulated by a national law with due consideration for the peculiarities of the people of the separate States.
— from And the Kaiser abdicates: The German Revolution November 1918-August 1919 by S. Miles (Stephen Miles) Bouton

Hustled have we been, till driven from town-meetings; dirty water has been cast upon our ruffles by a Whig chambermaid; John Hancock's coachman seizes every opportunity to bespatter us with mud; daily are we hooted by the unbreeched rebel brats; and narrowly, once, did our gray hairs escape the ignominy of tar and feathers.
— from Old News (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales") by Nathaniel Hawthorne

But reason itself must rest at last upon authority; for the original data of reason do not rest upon reason, but are necessarily accepted by reason on the authority of what is beyond itself.
— from Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker