The book attributed to Longinus will not have missed xxv its mark if it reminds us that, in literature at least, for conscience there is yet a place, possibly even a reward, though that is unessential.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Then he walked round the flower borders and presently picked Estelle a rose.
— from The Spinners by Eden Phillpotts

In any degree to understand what follows we must try to realise the intimate blending of lofty abstract conceptions and passionate personal emotions and reminiscences in Dante's thoughts of Beatrice.
— from Dante: Six Sermons by Philip H. (Philip Henry) Wicksteed

She leaned forward from her chair, extending a white arm along the iron railing of the porch; bending toward Corliss, and speaking toward him and away from Hedrick in as low a voice as possible, probably entertaining a reasonable hope of not being overheard.
— from The Flirt by Booth Tarkington

I may cite, among those who have wrought strongly upon opinion or practice in science, Aristotle, Plato, Ptolemy, Euclid, Archimedes, Roger Bacon, Copernicus, Francis Bacon, Ramus, Tycho Brahé, Galileo, Napier, Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton, Locke.
— from A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I by Augustus De Morgan

Whatever the issue it is certain that the reconciling facts will leave us with much more light than we at present possess either as respects the Earth's history or the history of the radioactive elements.
— from The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays by John Joly

He was told by experts, that I was about to become a prosperous, perhaps even a rich man.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May