The brave deaf man, assailed on all sides, had lost, if not all courage, at least all hope of saving, not himself (he was not thinking of himself), but the gypsy.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

In the following winter, after wandering somewhat erratically through Stresa, Genoa, and Spezia, he landed in Nice, where the climate so happily promoted his creative powers that he wrote the third part of “Zarathustra”.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

So you ain’t a sailor, hey? Livin’ in New York?”
— from Cap'n Warren's Wards by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

He was born at South Hempstead, L. I., Nov. 23, 1770.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams

On that sky lyre a chord is mute Haply, one echo yet remains, To linger on the Poet's lute, And tell, in his most mournful strains, A star hath left its native sky To touch our cold earth, and to die; To warn the young heart how it trust To mortal vows, whose faith is dust; To bid the young cheek guard its bloom From wasting by such early doom; Warn by the histories linked with all That ever bowed to passion's thrall Warn by all—above—below, By that lost Pleiad's depth of woe— Warn them, love is of heavenly birth, But turns to death on touching earth.
— from Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 48, January, 1854 by Various

[110] has been almost exclusively a boarding school, and as such has led in numbers all the schools of Virginia.
— from Charles Lewis Cocke, Founder of Hollins College by William Robert Lee Smith

The prisoner, however, who behaved with propriety and decorum, happened to have long black hair, which he wore somewhat “ en jeune France ” upon his neck and shoulders; his locks, if not ambrosial, were tastefully curled, and bespoke the fostering hand of care and attention.
— from Nuts and Nutcrackers by Charles James Lever

The depression incident to the knowledge that one has a serious heart lesion is not reacted against, and especially not during a threatening break in compensation, and a more favorable time must be waited for to reveal his condition to him.
— from Psychotherapy Including the History of the Use of Mental Influence, Directly and Indirectly, in Healing and the Principles for the Application of Energies Derived from the Mind to the Treatment of Disease by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

It always has some relation to the author's peculiar manner of thinking; involves, to some extent, and shows his literary, if not his moral, character; is, in general, that sort of expression which his thoughts most readily assume; and, sometimes, partakes not only of what is characteristic of the man, of his profession, sect, clan, or province, but even of national peculiarity, or some marked feature of the age.
— from The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

Anything, anything, to be alone, away from the folly and futility that would be all she had left if Nick were to drop out of her life.... “But perhaps he has dropped already—dropped for good,” she thought as she set her foot on the Vanderlyn threshold.
— from The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton