The eager mariners but ask him who he is, and where from; whereas, they not only receive an answer to those questions, but likewise another answer to a question not put by them, but the unsolicited answer is forced from Jonah by the hard hand of God that is upon him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Her feelings have been steadily against it from first to last.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

This is nature's wonderful economy to release the brain from the drudgery of individual acts, and leave it free to command all its forces for higher service.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

This is why so few men of learning are possessed of common-sense, such as is often to be met with in people who have had no instruction at all. To acquire a knowledge of the world might be defined as the aim of all education; and it follows from what I have said that special stress should be laid upon beginning to acquire this knowledge at the right end .
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Studies in Pessimism by Arthur Schopenhauer

But the deepest thanks of all is from future generations."
— from 2 B R 0 2 B by Kurt Vonnegut

Public stock and public lands, therefore, the two sources of revenue which may peculiarly belong to the sovereign or commonwealth, being both improper and insufficient funds for defraying the necessary expense of any great and civilized state; it remains that this expense must, the greater part of it, be defrayed by taxes of one kind or another; the people contributing a part of their own private revenue, in order to make up a public revenue to the sovereign or commonwealth.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

262 In some of its applications, this subjunctive is often more exactly defined by an expression of doubt or of assurance: as, fors fuat an in Plautus, forsitan from Terence on (rarely forsan , fors ), fortasse , may be , perhaps ; opīnor , haud sciō an , I fancy ; facile , easily , sine ūllā dubitātiōne , unhesitatingly , &c., &c.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

If therefore a Pastor lawfully called to teach and direct others, or any other, of whose knowledge there is a great opinion, doe externall honor to an Idol for fear; unlesse he make his feare, and unwillingnesse to it, as evident as the worship; he Scandalizeth his Brother, by seeming to approve Idolatry.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

But the German Crown Prince bears his shield within a bordure gules, and anciently in France (from which country the English system was Page 500 {500} very probably originally derived) the differencing of the Royal French Arms for the younger branches seems to have been carefully attended to, as has been already specified.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

He raised his face and it flashed from red to white.
— from The Border Legion by Zane Grey

I have hitherto been adducing instances from (for the most part) objects of sight; but the memory preserves the impress, though not so vivid, of the experiences which come to us through our other senses also.
— from An Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent by John Henry Newman

A low, despairing cry broke from those blanched lips, and Idalie fell forward at his feet.
— from Home Scenes and Heart Studies by Grace Aguilar

The Christian religion alone is fitted for all, being composed of externals and internals.
— from The Thoughts of Blaise Pascal by Blaise Pascal

The Middle Remove came next, and through each column of strange names the boy read religiously, with a fascination he could not have explained, here and there conjuring an incongruous figure from some name he knew.
— from Fathers of Men by E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung

The fall of temperature with increasing altitude during the night is slower than during the day, and in fact, from the earth's surface to an altitude of a few hundred metres, there is often a rise of temperature with height, so that the air at altitudes of from 300 to 500 metres may be considerably warmer than it is at the ground.
— from Sounding the Ocean of Air Being Six Lectures Delivered Before the Lowell Institute of Boston, in December 1898 by Abbott Lawrence Rotch

So far the poet found, ennobled, classified; but all these he sums up, and creates an ideal form from their assemblage, in Achilles:—he is the grandson of Jupiter, the son of a goddess, the favourite of Heaven—
— from The Life and Writings of Henry Fuseli, Volume 3 (of 3) by Henry Fuseli

My triumph was complete; the monarch smiled at and admired every word as it fell from my lips, kissed my hands, and played with the curls of my long hair, sportively twisting his fingers amidst my flowing ringlets with all the vivacity of a lover of twenty.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

He and I felt for each other, I think, something of the humorous friendliness of the men in the opposing trenches.
— from Shandygaff A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley