Till late at night I lay in the hollow.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

During my attachment to another, I own this affection was in some measure deranged; I did not think so frequently of her, but still with the same pleasure, and never, in love or otherwise, did I think of her without feeling that I could expect no true happiness in life while in a state of separation.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Next to its habits, the thing which a nation is least apt to change is its civil legislation.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The section called Arisakkāra Nattamān is looked down upon by the rest, and may not intermarry with any of them.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The incipient insanity which was already noticeable in Leubald breaks out more violently after this discovery, and everything that can be done to intensify it is contributed by the ghost of his father, which continually comes between the advances of the lovers.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

ATHENIAN: Whether, in the abstract, words are to be many or few, is a very foolish question; the best form, and not the shortest, is to be approved; nor is length at all to be regarded.
— from Laws by Plato

Dr. Ashmore, the new Rector of St. Matthew's, had been chosen because he was very "advanced": his sermons were considered bold in thought and novel in language.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

"Watch we in calmness, as they rise, The changes of that rapid dream, And note its lessons, till our eyes Shall open in the morning beam."
— from Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by William Cullen Bryant

The young Aquino returned to his father's castle, and was then sent to Naples to be educated at the university, living in a Benedictine abbey, and not in lodgings like other students.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages by John Lord

The main outlines of public ownership, however, are now in large part determined.
— from The Principles of Economics, with Applications to Practical Problems by Frank A. (Frank Albert) Fetter

This at night is lighted with flambeaux of wax, and the buffalo bearing it is slowly driven into the jungle.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

It is about nine inches long, from its tail to its nose.
— from Harper's Young People, April 13, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various

Hard, unblushing, unloving women whose ideal of happiness lies in swagger and notoriety; who hate home life and despise home virtues; who have no tender regard for men and no instinctive love for children; who despise the modesty of sex as they deny its natural fitness—these women have worse than no charm for men, and their place in the human family seems altogether a mistake.
— from The Girl of the Period, and Other Social Essays, Vol. 2 (of 2) by E. Lynn (Elizabeth Lynn) Linton