But he did a little; and began to love her none the less.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

But on the fifth or sixth day after these things it happened to him as follows:—a fisherman having caught a large and beautiful fish, thought it right that this should be given as a gift to Polycrates.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

The library, which was formed, or at least arranged, by Casanova, and which remains as he left it, contains some 25,000 volumes, some of them of considerable value; one of the most famous books in Bohemian literature, Skala’s History of the Church, exists in manuscript at Dux, and it is from this manuscript that the two published volumes of it were printed.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Another objection, to all this remedy, is its want of universality; forasmuch as the shaving part of it, upon which so much stress is laid, by an unalterable law of nature excludes one half of the species entirely from its use: all I can say is, that female writers, whether of England, or of France, must e’en go without it—— As for the Spanish ladies——I am in no sort of distress—— 214 C H A P. LXXIV T HE seventy-fourth chapter is come at last; and brings nothing with it but a sad signature of “ How our pleasures slip from under us in this world ! ”
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

To a physiologist a like antagonism between values admits of no doubt.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

This tendency was in all likelihood accelerated by the need of a word denoting the hostile demoniac powers generally, as well as by an incipient popular etymology, which saw a negative ( a-sura ) in the word and led to the invention of sura , “god,” a term first found in the Upanishads.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

why, I would have fought as long as breath had been in me; and, had I so done, I am sure you could never have given me the worst on't, for a Christian can never be overcome unless he shall yield of himself.
— from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan Every Child Can Read by John Bunyan

6, if I say that you can be surpassed, I should own myself swept along like a blind man ( 1556 ).
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

he knew there was a boycott I hate the mention of their politics after the war that Pretoria and Ladysmith and Bloemfontein where Gardner lieut Stanley G 8th
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

The sea laughed and flashed and preened and allured, like a beautiful, coquettish woman.
— from Anne's House of Dreams by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

my private fortune...." "Do not name it, mejuffrouw," he said jovially, "the sound of it would stagger a poor man who has to scrape up a living as best he can."
— from The Laughing Cavalier: The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

But I would prevent it from being banked up here and banked up there, and narrowed, twisted, and tortured, till it bursts all bounds, natural and acquired, and rushes wildly over the country, destroying villages, inundating harvests, sweeping away lives, and becoming a terror and a fate instead of the beneficence it was meant to be.
— from A New Atmosphere by Gail Hamilton

"Sea and land are but his neighbors," verse, 1 , 279.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

Telemachus flew to the room where the royal armor lay, and brought with him four brazen helmets, eight shining spears, and four broad shields.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester

If they break from this, they can only do so against law and by revolution.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 5: 1858-1862 by Abraham Lincoln

A driver moved from his seat as Lemuel approached, but after a closer inspection the former's interest died.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

The poem is full at once of the grand national impulse, and of purely personal and tender devotion; and that fluttering, vehement purpose, thrilling and faltering in alternate lines, and breaking into a sob at last, is in every syllable the utterance of a woman's spirit and a woman's nature.
— from Modern Italian Poets; Essays and Versions by William Dean Howells

He like a Father loves you as his Children; And like a Brother wishes you all Good; We'll let him know the Wounds that you complain of, And he'll be speedy to apply the Cure, And clear the Path to Friendship, Peace, and Trade.
— from Ponteach The Savages of America by Robert Rogers