When we read Pope, for instance, we have a general impression of sameness, as if all his polished poems were made in the same machine; but in the work of the best romanticists there is endless variety.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The command in India, both by land and sea, was intrusted to General de Bussy, once the brilliant [460] fellow-worker with Dupleix, now a gouty invalid of sixty-four.
— from The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

I hope you gazed upon my dark, empty house and gave it one sigh of regret.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

It happened that at this Time one of his Majesty’s Ships was upon a Cruize, on this Station, and got Intelligence of some of the mischievous Actions of this Miscreant, by one of the Vessels that had been plundered by him, who steering as directed, came in Sight of the Pyrates by break of Day, on the 10th of June , of all Days in the Year.
— from A General History of the Pyrates: from their first rise and settlement in the island of Providence, to the present time by Daniel Defoe

The farmer tills the soil, the miner digs in the earth, the weaver tends the loom, the mason carves the stone; the clever man invents, the shrewd man directs, the wise man studies, the inspired man sings—and all the result, the products of the labor of brain and muscle, are gathered into one stupendous stream and poured into their laps!
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

He told me also, as a great instance of some men, that the Prince of Condo’s excellence is, that there not being a more furious man in the world, danger in fight never disturbs him more than just to make him civill, and to command in words of great obligation to his officers and men; but without any the least disturbance in his judgment or spirit. 5th (Lord’s day).
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

But when I opened him, and looked within at his serious purpose, I saw in him divine and golden images of such fascinating beauty that I was ready to do in a moment whatever Socrates commanded: they may have escaped the observation of others, but I saw them.
— from Symposium by Plato

The virtue of a girl is of slight importance in the country.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

When them boys that fought together all get in one square—they have to swap stories all over again.
— from Plays by Susan Glaspell

In shape, the hyoids of Baiomys resemble those of Ochrotomys nuttalli (as explained on page 605 , Ochrotomys is here accorded generic, instead of subgeneric, rank).
— from Speciation and Evolution of the Pygmy Mice, Genus Baiomys by Robert L. (Robert Lewis) Packard

53 Wauwyl and Nieberwyl are good illustrations of such a “ Packwerkbau .”
— from The New Stone Age in Northern Europe by John M. (John Mason) Tyler

The immediate result for Milan was a great inroad of Swiss allies of the Pope, under that terrible peasant priest, the Cardinal de Sion, and the devastation of the fair Lombard provinces.
— from The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes

Don't you think that is a good idea?" "Oh!" said Camilla, delightedly; "then you are coming with me?" It was Caroline who looked surprised.
— from Capricious Caroline by Effie Adelaide Rowlands

She had asked Rose to come as a guest, instead of standing with her to receive.
— from Princess Polly's Gay Winter by Amy Brooks

A long and careful training is far better than a short and severe one, and so I would recommend easy work for the first month, with a gradual increase of speed as one goes along.
— from Going Afoot: A book on walking. by Bayard Henderson Christy

" Plato, who belongs chronologically to the fourth period, but who may here be mentioned in connection with the great men of the third, as synthesizing all the previous speculations of the Greeks, ascends to the conception of an ideal existence which unites truth, beauty, and goodness in one scheme of universal order.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 1 of 2) by John Addington Symonds

Thorbjorn thought it would suit him very well to go there and earn wealth and glory instead of staying in the northern parts where there were relations of Grettir.
— from The Saga of Grettir the Strong: Grettir's Saga by Unknown

When Mr. Morris K. Jesup drives through New York his eyes are gladdened in one street by the "Dewitt Memorial Chapel" that he erected; in another by the Five Points House of Industry, of which he is the president, and in still others by the Young Men's Christian Association and kindred institutions, of which he is a liberal supporter.
— from Recollections of a Long Life: An Autobiography by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler

Above all, the modern world (even while mocking sexual innocence) has flung itself into a generous idolatry of sexual innocence—the great modern worship of children.
— from Orthodoxy by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton