A superstition that happiness and truth are related (confusion: happiness in "certainty," in "faith").
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Dr. Raymond is to be in charge of our American Red Cross hospital in Coblenz after Dr. Clark's departure.
— from The Red Cross Girls with Pershing to Victory by Margaret Vandercook

Her long ear-rings swung and rattled corpses hanging in chains: an agreeably literary simile.
— from Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley

[34] When Aeneas reaches Carthage he “is come to Paradys Out of the swolow of helle, and thus in Ioye Remembreth him of his estat in Troye.”
— from Astronomical Lore in Chaucer by Florence M. (Florence Marie) Grimm

As regards Cetywayo himself, I cannot share the opinion of those who think that he would be personally dangerous.
— from Cetywayo and his White Neighbours Remarks on Recent Events in Zululand, Natal, and the Transvaal by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

A moment after there came upon him a procession of motley composition: disabled Christians; servants, mostly females, carrying the trifles they most affected,—here a bundle of wearing apparel, there a cage with a bird; prisoners, amongst others the prince Cacama, heart-broken by his misfortunes; women of importance and rank, comfortably housed in curtained palanquins.
— from The Fair God; or, The Last of the 'Tzins: A Tale of the Conquest of Mexico by Lew Wallace

Don Santiago Mendez was a merchant, until within a few years, at the head of a respectable commercial house in Campeachy.
— from Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

Helen went and looked in at the studio on this particular morning, and made a rapid calculation how it could be 'made better.'
— from At His Gates: A Novel. Vol. 1 (of 3) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant