A rich and powerful soul not only gets over painful and even terrible losses, deprivations, robberies, and insults: it actually leaves such dark infernos in possession of still greater plenitude and power; and, what is most important of all, in possession of an increased blissfulness in love.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

O what a rogue and peasant slave am I!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

“All right,” agreed Pollyanna, somewhat doubtfully; “but I MUST go to school day after to-morrow—there are examinations then, you know.”
— from Pollyanna by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Bear , one who contracts to deliver or sell a certain quantity of stock in the public funds on a forthcoming day at a stated place, but who does not possess it, trusting to a decline in public securities to enable him to fulfil the agreement and realize a profit.— See BULL .
— from The Slang Dictionary: Etymological, Historical and Andecdotal by John Camden Hotten

When the wild beasts and serpents were extirpated, when the forest, or rather wilderness, was cleared, the vestiges of a Roman town were discovered in a sandy plain: the vegetable food of Cairoan is brought from afar; and the scarcity of springs constrains the inhabitants to collect in cisterns and reservoirs a precarious supply of rain water.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Adúnay ritmu ang pitik sa átung pulsu, Our pulse beats rhythmically.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

Through wit and courage I won to the free air at last, and fled hither straight; and am but just arrived, right poor in purse and raiment, and poorer still in knowledge of what these dull seven years have wrought at Hendon Hall, its people and belongings.
— from The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

“So I am really a princess,” she whispered to herself, ironically, and glancing accidentally at Daria Alexeyevna’s face, she burst out laughing.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

And if things do not go so far as that, where is the religion whose confessors do not consider prayers, songs of praise, and various kinds of devotional exercise, at any rate, a partial substitute for moral conduct?
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

Here and there, however, the even line will betray a regularly recurring indentation or undulation, reflecting a rhythm and possibly significant of a remote pendulum whose rate of vibration is known.
— from The Popular Science Monthly, August, 1900 Vol. 57, May, 1900 to October, 1900 by Various

It has been remarked, that "he who cannot find in this and other branches of natural history a salutary exercise for his mental faculties, inducing a habit of observation and reflection, a pleasure so easily obtained, unalloyed by any debasing mixture—tending to expand and harmonize his mind, and elevate it to conceptions of the majestic, sublime, serene, and beautiful arrangements instituted by the God of nature, must possess an organization sadly deficient, or be surrounded by circumstances indeed lamentable."
— from Mysteries of Bee-keeping Explained by M. (Moses) Quinby

It was a rich and pleasing scene, and out of question by far the most populous and cultivated tract that I had seen in Persia….
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

I was knocked down by the violence of the blow, and received a pretty severe wound in my side, and I have no doubt but the pistol saved my life.
— from Four Months in Libby and the Campaign Against Atlanta by I. N. (Isaac N.) Johnston

The Provinces were represented as a collection of audacious rebels, a piratical scum of the sea.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Barante writes to me from Paris, assuring me that the relations between Russia and France are by no means so near a revival as people said; he seems to me rather to aim at succeeding the Duc de Broglie as Ambassador at London than at following Bresson in the Embassy at Naples.
— from Memoirs of the Duchesse De Dino (Afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan), 1841-1850 by Dino, Dorothée, duchesse de

He then goes on to discuss the terms which will make this reunion possible, and evidently draws ideas from sources as diverse as Rousseau and Pitt, stating, as preliminaries, that when men come together in society, there must be an implied contract that "a part of their freedom shall be given up for the security of the remainder.
— from Gouverneur Morris by Theodore Roosevelt

High poles were also erected, from the top of which archers, each encased in an arrow-proof box and raised by a rope and pulley, shot at the besieged.
— from The Book of War: The Military Classic of the Far East The Articles of Suntzu; The Sayings of Wutzu by Qi Wu

How Smith became an opulent banker, and received a papyrus scroll written by Abraham and several celebrated Egyptians.
— from Round the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

I wish when I'm a man and rich and proud, She'd see me, tall and handsome then, and be Blamed sorry that she didn't wait for me, And that she'd hear the people cheerin' loud When I went past, and down there in the crowd I'd see her lookin' at me sorrowf'ly.
— from Love Sonnets of an Office Boy by Samuel E. (Samuel Ellsworth) Kiser