This also must be confessed, that the most durable, as well as justest fame, has been acquired by the easy philosophy, and that abstract reasoners seem hitherto to have enjoyed only a momentary reputation, from the caprice or ignorance of their own age, but have not been able to support their renown with more equitable posterity.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Telnet gives access to a remote service for interactive dialog.
— from The Online World by Odd De Presno

After they had been purified with fire and incense, according to a rite still practised under the sons of Zingis, they were introduced to the presence of Disabul.
— 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

It is as often applied to feelings which arise from an half-hour's acquaintance, as to a real, strong attachment.
— from Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

And joy through all the army ran, “Soon shall we meet,” thought every man, “The prince we hold so dear.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

And it roars and thunders, and rages, sad there’s no end to it!
— from Plays by Anton Chekhov, Second Series by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Alan and Torrance and Rankeillor slept and snored on their hard beds; but for me who had lain out under heaven and upon dirt and stones, so many days and nights, and often with an empty belly, and in fear of death, this good change in my case unmanned me more than any of the former evil ones; and I lay till dawn, looking at the fire on the roof and planning the future.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson

But as truth and reason seldom find so favorable a reception in the world, and as the wisdom of Providence frequently condescends to use the passions of the human heart, and the general circumstances of mankind, as instruments to execute its purpose, we may still be permitted, though with becoming submission, to ask, not indeed what were the first, but what were the secondary causes of the rapid growth of the Christian church.
— 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

From Young's Point the Mississippi turns in a north-easterly direction to a point just above the city, when it again turns and runs south-westerly, leaving vessels, which might attempt to run the blockade, exposed to the fire of batteries six miles below the city before they were in range of the upper batteries.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

The conditions of that covenant are, that a righteousness shall be brought into the world that shall please the justice of God, and answer and so remove the curse of the law.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 01 by John Bunyan

Here and there was a sheepfold, suggesting the bleakness of winter nights; and here and there a rough stone barn for storing fodder.
— from Robert Elsmere by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

For this affair has been talked of a long time in the country, and then Père Oriol is a celebrity, an important personage on account of his influence and his wealth, besides a true Auvergnat, remaining still a peasant, working himself, hoarding, piling up gold on gold, intelligent, full of ideas and plans for his children's future."
— from Mont Oriol; or, A Romance of Auvergne: A Novel by Guy de Maupassant

No wheel is quite complete enough for a count of gear teeth, but a provisional reconstruction by Theophanidis (fig. 9 ) has shown that the appearances are consistent with the theory that the 94 purpose of the gears was to provide the correct angular ratios to move the sun and planets at their appropriate relative speeds.
— from On the Origin of Clockwork, Perpetual Motion Devices, and the Compass by Derek J. de Solla (Derek John de Solla) Price

“Jauhnson,” said Brummell, recollecting, and pretending to feel for a card; “Oh, the name, I remember, was Thaun-son (Thompson;) and Jauhnson and Thaunson, you know, Jauhnson and Thaunson, are really so much the same kind of thing!”
— from The Every-day Book and Table Book. v. 3 (of 3) Everlasting Calerdar of Popular Amusements, Sports, Pastimes, Ceremonies, Manners, Customs and Events, Incident to Each of the Three Hundred and Sixty-five Days, in past and Present Times; Forming a Complete History of the Year, Month, and Seasons, and a Perpetual Key to the Almanac by William Hone

Rose makes a sweet angel, doesn't she?” “Ass” was evidently the word, and the angel retired, smiling with mundane satisfaction over the compliment that reached her ears.
— from Eight Cousins by Louisa May Alcott

"But I must get my messages as quickly as they are received," said the white duck woman.
— from The Girl Scouts at Sea Crest; Or, the Wig Wag Rescue by Lilian Garis