Practice gunnery, with only a place in the Proficiency List at stake, had been exciting enough: this was too exciting— much too exciting—for the keenness of brain and the quickness and steadiness of eye and of hand so soon to be required.
— from Triplanetary by E. E. (Edward Elmer) Smith

Macbeth and Sancho have been equally eloquent in the praise of sleep.
— from John Caldigate by Anthony Trollope

But Cécile ascended, saw her, became enamoured, enragée!
— from The Great House by Stanley John Weyman

Further, he took several conclusions away with him: she had a fetching name and fetching eyes; could not be more than twenty, or twenty-one or -two; her father must be French; she had a will of her own and temperament to burn; and she had been educated elsewhere than on the frontier.
— from Smoke Bellew by Jack London

He banished the remorse from his mind as instantaneously as it arose; and, seating himself by Emily, endeavoured to inspire her with a portion of the joy and hope which animated himself.
— from Falkland, Book 3. by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

The Church has since followed the opinion of this eminent dignitary, having made many bishops and cardinals from the two orders, and several have been even elevated to the sovereign pontificate.
— from The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi by Candide Chalippe

"No, but I remember what M. le Duc d'Orléans condescended to write, by the side of my name, in his own handwriting, a month ago: 'Suppress his bonuses,' etc. etc."
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

Whether any reason can be assigned why Holy Innocents Day, being that on which the boy bishop was usually appointed, should have been expressly excluded by the founder.
— from Notes and Queries, Number 137, June 12, 1852 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

So long as the seed of Amalek exist, the face of God is, as it were, covered, and will only then come to view, when the seed of Amalek shall have been entirely exterminated.
— from The Legends of the Jews — Volume 3 by Louis Ginzberg