Thus, since within the body itself of man The mind and soul are by such great diseases Shaken, so miserably in labour distraught, Why, then, believe that in the open air, Without a body, they can pass their life, Immortal, battling with the master winds?
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

Well, I liked the king, and as king I respected him—respected the office; at least respected it as much as I was capable of respecting any unearned supremacy; but as men I looked down upon him and his nobles—privately.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

'Merriman, I leave details to you.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

At this moment it loomed disagreeably close at hand.
— from A Woman's Will by Anne Warner

Again and again, not merely in Le Docteur Servans and Le Roman d'une Femme , but in La Dame aux Camélias itself, in Tristan le Roux , in Les Aventures de Quatre Femmes , and in others still, I have been, at first reading, on the point of dropping the book.
— from A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury

As for me, I little dreamed of anything unusual to happen on my return.
— from Indian Boyhood by Charles Alexander Eastman

The brothers Sadleir are specially selected for dishonourable mention in 1856, but John Sadleir, M.P. for Carlow and an ex-Lord of the Treasury, who was the original of Mr. Merdle in Little Dorrit , and was described in The Times after his death as a "national calamity," only escaped punishment by suicide.
— from Mr. Punch's History of Modern England, Vol. 1 (of 4).—1841-1857 by Charles L. (Charles Larcom) Graves