White and black are similar effects of contraction and dilation in another sphere, and for this reason have a different appearance.
— from Timaeus by Plato

And growing angrier each moment, they went from words to blows, and finally began to scratch and bite and slap each other.
— from The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi

That with ancient arms of which the grant specified the colour, where this has not been altered by a subsequent exemplification, the colours must be as stated in the grant, i.e. usually gules, lined argent.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

All extravagances are vulgar, because they are evidence of a pretence to being better than you are; but a single extravagance unsupported is perhaps worse than a number together, which have at least the merit of consistency.
— from The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in All His Relations Towards Society by Cecil B. Hartley

The sound, however disagreeable, had very brisk life in it, and, together with the circle of curious children watching the revolutions of the wheel, appeared to give him a more vivid sense of active, bustling, and sunshiny existence than he had attained in almost any other way.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

We parted with tears, and swore to love each other as brother and sister ever after.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Ayrton alone, by a supreme effort, from time to time raised his head, and cast a despairing glance over the desert ocean.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

The monk seemed agitated by a strange emotion; he trembled all over; he seemed eager to put a question which yet he dared not ask.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

With all this, so much only is to be said, that though fear first produces gods (demons), it is Reason by means of its moral principles that can first produce the concept of God (even when, as commonly is the case, one is unskilled in the Teleology of nature, or is very doubtful on account of the difficulty of adjusting by a sufficiently established principle its mutually contradictory phenomena).
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

I once met at Baltimore, and since elsewhere, a clever young American mathematician and engineer, Henry Middleton by name, who showed me, at his father's place in South Carolina, parts of a model energised
— from My Life as an Author by Martin Farquhar Tupper

Without use it dries, hardens, and becomes a shelly excrescence upon a foot, benumbed by the percussion of heavy iron upon hard roads.
— from Rational Horse-Shoeing by John E. (John Edwards) Russell

Notwithstanding that the words 'darling of the people' are not in the passage referred to, the line inserted by Pope was accepted by all subsequent editors down to Singer.
— from The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 6 of 9] by William Shakespeare

And for some seconds he seemed to have swooned; but soon, as if carried away by a savage enthusiasm, brandishing his sceptre, he darted from the cavern.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 08, October, 1868, to March, 1869. by Various

A beautiful and simple experiment to illustrate this refrigeration can be made as follows: Place a gill of water in a common washbasin, then pour over it one pint of light gasoline; shake the basin, and blow the liquids vigorously, when very soon the basin will become intensely cold—the water will freeze, and may be taken out in the form of a snowball.
— from Scientific American, Vol. XLIII.—No. 1. [New Series.], July 3, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures by Various

The more I looked at the fair Albanese the more I was convinced that in the United States of America may be found grace and beauty and symmetry equal to anything in the Old World.
— from Wanderings in South America by Charles Waterton

They will never afterwards be acquired so easily or so thoroughly, and the want of them may be bitterly felt when too late.
— from Spare Hours by John Brown

This company, led by General Washburn, the Surveyor-General of the Territory, and accompanied by a small escort of United States cavalry under Lieutenant G. C. Doane, left Fort Ellis toward the latter part of August, and entered the valley of Yellowstone River on the 23d.
— from Wonders of the Yellowstone by James (Geologist) Richardson