The generation to which he belonged has passed away, and a new race has sprung up which looks upon him as essentially outside its sphere of activity.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

In this book we propose to study the most primitive and simple religion which is actually known, to make an analysis of it, and to attempt an explanation of it.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

The change from storm and winter to serene and mild weather, from dark and sluggish hours to bright and elastic ones, is a memorable crisis which all things proclaim.
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

Society must manage to get on without the Beauforts, and there was an end of it—except indeed for such hapless victims of the disaster as Medora Manson, the poor old Miss Lannings, and certain other misguided ladies of good family who, if only they had listened to Mr. Henry van der Luyden ...
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Of the evening, which passed on without any particular incident, she wished the conclusion, that she might escape from the attentions of the Count; and, as opposite qualities frequently attract each other in our thoughts, thus Emily, when she looked on Count Morano, remembered Valancourt, and a sigh sometimes followed the recollection.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The currency of a great state, such as France or England, generally consists almost entirely of its own coin.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

An expression of intense joy illumined the old man’s eyes.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

It would appear, therefore, that the term "paralysis" of the bladder or rectum, when following spinal injuries, &c. &c. means, or should mean, only a paralytic state of the abdomino-pelvic muscular apparatus, entirely or in part.
— from Surgical Anatomy by Joseph Maclise

I have grown it largely since, and every one is attracted by the bushes, set thickly with medium-sized imbricated flowers of carmine and brick-red, borne on upright stems in such numbers that they make a brilliant mark in the garden from a distance.
— from Roses and Rose Growing by Rose Georgina Kingsley

To take but a single instance, what must it have been to a man of such sensitive honour and engaged only in doing good to be so frequently in the hands of the police and in the company of malefactors?
— from The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891 by James Stalker

they are passing by in the bright sunshine ... the Blues from over there, the Reds from over here; they are marching against each other in long array....
— from The Human Slaughter-House: Scenes from the War that is Sure to Come by Wilhelm Lamszus

On the occasion referred to a splendid ball was given in this room; the roof echoed with the sound of music; and nobles and princely ladies flirted and coquetted the same as above ground; and it is said that the splendid dresses of a numerous company, and the blaze of light from the chandeliers reflected upon the surface of the rock-salt, produced an effect of inconceivable brilliancy.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 2 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

No other person in the entire Province of Kiang-si could hurl a javelin so unerringly while uttering sounds of terrifying menace, or could cause his sword to revolve around him so rapidly, while his face looked out from the glittering circles with an expression of ill-intentioned malignity that never failed to inspire his adversary with irrepressible emotions of alarm.
— from The Wallet of Kai Lung by Ernest Bramah

All their sympathy went forth for Tom in these days, and every one in the household—not even excepting Mr. Linley and Betsy—felt that it was necessary to treat him with the greatest tenderness.
— from A Nest of Linnets by Frank Frankfort Moore

young, VI 52, 114, 175, VIII b 36, IX 21, XVII 397; old or ȝong , any one, II 221; ȝong and alde , every one, IV a 49.
— from A Middle English Vocabulary, Designed for use with Sisam's Fourteenth Century Verse & Prose by J. R. R. (John Ronald Reuel) Tolkien

But there is an end of it; the world is falling to pieces,” the old man continued, sinking exhausted into a chair.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

There was a time, when it was considered an evidence of ignorance to profess any faith in spirit aid.
— from Mal Moulée: A Novel by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One of my advertisements in the difficult times, at a guinea each, in the Exeter, Sherborne, and Sun, which was then the ministerial paper, was reprinted for its loyalty and novelty in Philadelphia, and in two miscellaneous volumes of Literary Leisure, by Solomon Sumpter, Esq.; and from the attention I paid to the nobility, gentry, dragoon and militia officers, &c. when they tarried at Exeter or its neighbourhood, it was a pleasure and an honour mixed with fatigue.
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone