It is about 150 miles long, and from 40 to 50 broad; in circumference, some 320; a country large enough, and sufficiently distant from the nearest shores, to have subsisted as an independent state, if the welfare and happiness of the human race had ever been considered as the end and aim of policy.
— from The Life of Horatio, Lord Nelson by Robert Southey

There should be a common law embracing all these cases.
— from Laws by Plato

It was not exactly a hairdresser’s; that is to say, people of a coarse and vulgar turn of mind might have called it a barber’s; for they not only cut and curled ladies elegantly, and children carefully, but shaved gentlemen easily.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

A sunny sky and clear light envelop all.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

It proves that, after all, constant love exists, and that not every man of genius is a Mirabeau.
— from On Love by Stendhal

nisi is sometimes found in an adversative sense in old and colloquial Latin, especially after nesciō ; from Cicero on, it may be strengthened by tamen .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

My Lady Hinchingbroke I cannot say is a beauty, nor ugly; but is altogether a comely lady enough, and seems very good-humoured, and I mighty glad of the occasion of seeing her before to-morrow.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

This is more witty, but less grand, something like Racine after Corneille, like Euripides after Æschylus.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

To the electrician, a wire is a canal leading electricity across the solid rock of the air.
— from Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

They talked a little longer, and Curtis learned enough about the history of the two men he had in mind to be satisfied that neither of them was the one he sought.
— from The Delafield Affair by Florence Finch Kelly

But fog or fen was the same to Bess; her hoofs rattled merrily along the road, and she burst from a cloud, like Eöus at the break of dawn.
— from Rookwood by William Harrison Ainsworth

He staggered back, dropped his rifle, and cast longing eyes at the two boats moored to the brig's side.
— from Motor Matt's Submarine; or, The Strange Cruise of the Grampus by Stanley R. Matthews

The corn and colonial laws encountered, as was to be expected, the keenest opposition from the government.
— from The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) by Theodor Mommsen

As, however, the ice having only just "run," the boats and punts ordinarily fringing the river were still all up in the various barns and sheds where they had been stowed at the close of navigation, their efforts were in vain, and they could only stand fuming and casting longing eyes at the now retreating moose.
— from The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 by Various

Most follow the common path easily enough, because most follow the first path that offers, but many grumble and cast longing eyes at side tracks or would return to the place whence they came.
— from The Intelligence of Woman by Walter Lionel George

But, from the standpoint of a completely logicized experience, all finite, temporal processes are accidents, not essentials, of logical operations.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

In the 5th century we find them in Moravia, and a century later established, a powerful people, between the Adriatic and the Danube.
— from The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

"I ripped open the throat and cut off the windpipe and cut loose everything around the lights inside as far as I could reach.
— from The Wolf Hunters: A Story of the Buffalo Plains by Robert Morris Peck