One is this great Secret [Counsel] with all the privy points that belong thereto: and these secret things He willeth we should know [as being , but as] hid until the time that He will clearly shew them to us.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

Yea, thou sublime one, one day shalt thou also be beautiful, and hold up the mirror to thine own beauty.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

But he had not been there many seconds before the monkey uttered an uneasy whine, bounded up the bars of the partition, sprang across to those at right angles, bounded back again higher up, and then, with wonderful activity, lowered itself down, clung fast, and thrust a hand through again.
— from Stan Lynn: A Boy's Adventures in China by George Manville Fenn

There was a grand dress-ball once a week at one or other of the hotels, and two undress-balls— hops they were called: but most of the exclusives went to these also in full dress, and both balls and hops usually lasted till three or four in the morning.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 by Various

She entertains lavishly and brilliantly both at her unique town house in New York (said to be decorated by her own fair hands) and at her sumptuous summer palace in Newport.
— from Shadows of Flames: A Novel by Amélie Rives

That night they built a big bonfire, and hundreds upon hundreds were dancing about it, until I got tired watching them and went to sleep.
— from Diary of an Enlisted Man by Lawrence Van Alstyne

The mast is a stout square pole 10 or 12 feet long and is set up well forward of amidships, without a step, the square butt resting against a bottom board, and held up by two forestays and two backstays, running from the masthead to the inside streak.
— from Ethnological results of the Point Barrow expedition Ninth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1887-1888, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1892, pages 3-442 by John Murdoch

It is also true that to a Frenchman was due the first revelation of Shakespeare outside his own country: Voltaire, with his odi et amo, has always been blamed and held up to ridicule for the negative side of his criticism, but the positive side of it, the mental courage, the freshness of mental impressions, which his interest in Shakespeare, his admiration for his sublimity, deserved, have not been sufficiently remarked.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

"I AM Kaiser now, then?" answered the sullen Tornado, with a black brow and hanging under-jaw.—"I request my imprisonment may be prince-like," said the poor Prince.
— from History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 by Thomas Carlyle

Now all this little night’s pleasure, while harmless enough perhaps in its way and certainly harmless for a man who was to drive a hack the next morning, was injurious for one who needed every tenth of action between brain and hand under absolute control.
— from Confidential Chats with Boys by William Lee Howard

As he spoke he checked off all but Bessie and himself upon his fingers.
— from Tom Moore: An Unhistorical Romance Founded on Certain Happenings in the Life of Ireland's Greatest Poet by Theodore Burt Sayre