The place was filled with creeping, crawling things; cold, sinuous bodies passed over me when I lay down, and in the darkness I occasionally caught glimpses of gleaming, fiery eyes, fixed in horrible intentness upon me.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Soon, as I got a little calmer and more capable of reasoning, I concluded that a corpse had been placed beside me whilst I slept, for I was certain it was not there when I lay down.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[Pg 125] the values of degeneration, in the very seat of Christianity itself,—and even in the hearts of those sitting there, —Luther, that cursed monk, not only restored the Church, but, what was a thousand times worse, restored Christianity, and at a time too when it lay defeated.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

And these waters I listlessly daily cross, are these the waters he cross'd, As resolute in defeat as other generals in their proudest triumphs? I must copy the story, and send it eastward and westward, I must preserve that look as it beam'd on you rivers of Brooklyn.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

I have sunk, from the prime of life into old age, in this place, and there is not one to raise his hand above my bed when I lie dead upon it, and say, “It is a blessing he is gone!”’
— from The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

Let us now note what is least dissimilar in these heads—namely, the two most important organs, the eye and the ear.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

And then he tried to make the scene easier to himself by rehearsal: he made up his mind how he would pass from the admission of his weakness in letting Dunstan have the money to the fact that Dunstan had a hold on him which he had been unable to shake off, and how he would work up his father to expect something very bad before he told him the fact.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

"She said she'd do it a month ago," said this woman, "if luck didn't turn."
— from Aaron the Jew: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

"But you can remember that when I look down that beautiful road of life I shall always see you standing at the end—the embodiment of all its happiness."
— from The Lead of Honour by Norval Richardson

He had been taken into her room twice, and the beautiful pale face, with its large dark eyes, had filled his heart with pity.
— from The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete by Georg Ebers

For many a month She had quietly dozed, In the little silk gown In which I last dressed her— That time was brought back
— from Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 by E. W. (Edward William) Cole