Satan now in prospect of Eden, and nigh the place where he must now attempt the bold enterprize which he undertook alone against God and Man, falls into many doubts with himself, and many passions, fear, envy, and despare; but at length confirms himself in evil, journeys on to Paradise, whose outward prospect and scituation is described, overleaps the bounds, sits in the shape of a Cormorant on the tree of life, as highest in the Garden to look about him.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

"Burke, if I were you, I 'd be a little careful how I emphasized an attitude of innocence toward this affair.
— from The Paternoster Ruby by Charles Edmonds Walk

That its ineffectiveness was due largely to an inferior national Page 224 instinct or genius for sea warfare, as compared with England, is discredited by the fact that the disparity was less obvious in previous wars; for, as Lord Clowes has insisted, England won no decisive naval victory against superior forces from the second Dutch War to the time of Nelson.
— from A History of Sea Power by William Oliver Stevens

Yet, as we have seen a black and lowering cloud have its edges touched with living gold by the sun behind it, so all the darkest scenes of our Lord’s life appear more or less irradiated with the splendours of a strange glory.
— from The Angels' Song by Thomas Guthrie

It does not crouch upon the ground like the chippy, but with a lordly carriage holds itself erect as it nimbly runs over the frozen crust.
— from Bird Neighbors An Introductory Acquaintance with One Hundred and Fifty Birds Commonly Found in the Gardens, Meadows, and Woods About Our Homes by Neltje Blanchan

Here a Protestant attested his belief; there a Leaguer cursed Henry IV.; elsewhere some bourgeois has carved the insignia of his noblesse de cloches , symbols of his long-forgotten magisterial glory.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

Harry tried to suppress, or at least conceal his intense excitement.
— from The Guns of Bull Run: A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler