I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

Sometimes, even, and this has been actually seen, fear turns to passion; fright may change into fury, as prudence does into rage; hence this wise saying: “The enraged moderates.”
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

As in America paternal discipline is very relaxed and the conjugal tie very strict, a young woman does not contract the latter without considerable circumspection and apprehension.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

He prohibited young boys from running in the Lupercalia; and in respect of the Secular games, issued an order, that no young persons of either sex should appear at any public diversions in the night-time, unless in the company of some elderly relation.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

Then when she is dead they dress her, interestingly pale and dark-haired, in a pink dress (it suits her) and lay her in a very expensive coffin on gold legs, full of flowers.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Thus we are told that the legislature of New York enacted, in 1844, that any one who started and pursued deer in certain counties of that State should be deemed in possession of the game so long as he continued in fresh pursuit of it, /3/ and to that extent modified the New York decisions just cited.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gouvion quitted the Legislative Hall and Parliamentary duties, in disgust and despair, when those Galley-slaves of Chateau-Vieux were admitted there.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

But a philosophy does ill to boast of such borrowed triumphs.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

For a man, indeed, to be wavering and irresolute, to keep his affection unmoved and without inclination in the troubles of his country and public divisions, I neither think it handsome nor honest: “Ea non media, sed nulla via est, velut eventum exspectantium, quo fortunae consilia sua applicent.”
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

I know you are a plain dealer; it is for that reason I have chosen you for this important trust; speak the truth and spare not."
— from The History of John Bull by John Arbuthnot

In all cases where our temporal interests are concerned, a proper discrimination in the selection of such exercises and studies as shall best suit our purpose, is considered as not only prudent, but necessary.
— from A Practical Enquiry into the Philosophy of Education by James Gall

Anthony's nature was one that required sunshine, as a peacock demands it that its beauty and splendour may appear.
— from Urith: A Tale of Dartmoor by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

And oft at public dinners, in Garter and in Star, We see his Royal Highness enjoying his cigar.
— from Punch, or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various

Thus in the Ichthyotomi, while the pectoral fins are archipterygia similar to those of Ceratodus , the pelvic fins consist of an axis bearing rays on the postaxial side only, and prolonged distally into a clasper.
— from The Vertebrate Skeleton by Sidney H. (Sidney Hugh) Reynolds

A few chickens were hunting fishworms in the thawed places of the garden, and a yellow cat ran creepingly along the top rail of the nearest corral, crouched there with digging claws and pounced down into a flock of snowbirds.
— from The Ranch at the Wolverine by B. M. Bower

Another company, at physical drill in shirt and trousers, showed what superb material had offered itself to be worked upon, and how much poise and directed strength had been added to that material in the past few months.
— from The New Army in Training by Rudyard Kipling

The pope, who looked with an evil eye on this attack, might make a powerful diversion in the rear of the imperial army.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

But then Gif, Spouter, and Fred took a position directly in front of the on-coming horses, and the driver brought them snortingly to a sudden stop.
— from The Rover Boys on a Hunt; or, The Mysterious House in the Woods by Edward Stratemeyer