Her attachment and regrets had, for a long time, clouded every enjoyment of youth, and an early loss of bloom and spirits had been their lasting effect.
— from Persuasion by Jane Austen

But a long threatening comes at last, they say.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

At last they came to two mountains divided by a narrow valley.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

All these facts the great lawyer had present in his mind, so that when Isagani had finished speaking, he determined to confuse him with evasions, tangle the matter up, and lead the conversation to other subjects.
— from The Reign of Greed by José Rizal

And I did not in haste intend you the mortification of being undeceived; so that we might have lived for years, perhaps, very lovingly together; and I had, at the same time, been at liberty to confirm or abrogate it as I pleased.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

And yet farther, I may safely urge, that all this is no more than the same with what is done by several seemingly great and wise men, who with a new-fashioned modesty employ some paltry orator or scribbling poet, whom they bribe to flatter them with some high-flown character, that shall consist of mere lies and shams; and yet the persons thus extolled shall bristle up, and, peacock-like, bespread their plumes, while the impudent parasite magnifies the poor wretch to the skies, and proposes him as a complete pattern of all virtues, from each of which he is yet as far distant as heaven itself from hell: what is all this in the mean while, but the tricking up a daw in stolen feathers; a labouring to change the black-a-moor's hue, and the drawing on a pigmy's frock over the shoulders of a giant.
— from In Praise of Folly Illustrated with Many Curious Cuts by Desiderius Erasmus

When at last the curtain fell, I was under the impression, not so much from the behaviour of the audience, which was friendly, as from my own inward conviction, that the failure of this work was to be attributed to the immature and unsuitable material used in its production.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

How much longer is one form of society and life to content itself with the morality made for another?
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

At length they came and beset our own house, and quickly it was the dolefulest day that ever mine eyes saw.
— from Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary White Rowlandson

He has carried with him a light tackle called a whip, consisting of only two parts, travelling through a single-sheaved block.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Dr. Bowring had given him in Paris a letter to Count Porro at Marseilles.
— from Nathaniel Parker Willis by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers

Through the open windows they heard the work-people in the rooms; they went down the veranda steps with much noise and laughter; they came out there and went straight up to the piano, not noticing the two who stood there.
— from In God's Way: A Novel by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

We are——” A loud, terrified cry from Sam interrupted him.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner by John Henry Goldfrap

Mankind moves westward with the sun; men's thoughts turn back to the bright East, the source of every faith that moves humanity; at first, for faith's sake, men may retrace their migration to its source and give their own blood for their holy places; and after them a generation will give its money for the honour of its God; but at the last, and surely, comes the time of memory's fading, the winter of belief, the night of faith's day, wherein a delicately nurtured and greedy race will give neither gold nor blood, but only a prayer or a smile for the hope of a life to come.
— from Via Crucis: A Romance of the Second Crusade by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

At last they came to a capitulation.
— from Rimrock Trail by Dunn, J. Allan, (Joseph Allan)

Poor Scott, not yet forty, had married the pretty daughter of Colnaghi, the printseller in Pall Mall, and left two children.
— from Old and New London, Volume I A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury

And, lords, towards Coventry bend we our course, Where peremptory Warwick now remains.
— from The History of King Henry the Sixth, Third Part by William Shakespeare

"I am longing to cease it.
— from The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

Preparation for the Confinement; Signs of Approaching Labor; Symptoms of Actual Labor; the Confinement-bed; the Process of Labor.
— from The Four Epochs of Woman's Life; A Study in Hygiene by Anna M. (Anna Mary) Galbraith