And then, even in his trouble, he remembered the old saw that "What is done is done; and the egg cracked cannot be cured.
— from The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle

And not only are we finding ever new proof that events are cognisably determined, but also that the different modes of determination of different kinds of events are fundamentally identical and mutually dependent: and naturally, with the increasing conviction of the essential unity of the cognisable universe, increases the indisposition to allow the exceptional character claimed by Libertarians for the department of human action.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Again they played; and Nefrekepta dead Won the third game; and Setne to his head Sank, and the earth came close below his ears.
— from The Story of Nefrekepta, from a Demotic Papyrus by Gilbert Murray

I had forgotten his very existence till I discerned the queer contrast between his black coat and his snow-white head, and the equally curious contrast between the clerical amplitude of his person, and the most unclerical wit, whim, and petulance of his eye.
— from Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay. Volume 1 by George Otto Trevelyan

Blood drips from the hands of the accused—the blood of the victims of Rostov and Kharkov, the martyrs of Auschwitz and all the extermination camps created by the Hitlerites.
— from Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremburg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946, Volume 7 by Various

To make this matter intelligible to the ordinary English reader, I must needs introduce in this place some account of what are popularly called the “Ammonian Sections” and the “Eusebian Canons:” concerning both of which, however, it cannot be too plainly laid down that nothing whatever is known beyond what is discoverable from a careful study of the “Sections” and “Canons” themselves; added to what Eusebius has told us in that short Epistle of his “to Carpianus,” —which I suppose has been transcribed and reprinted more often than any other uninspired Epistle in the world.
— from The Last Twelve Verses of the Gospel According to S. Mark by John William Burgon

The most remarkable institution in Columbo is the steam factory where the government make or mend such machinery as their experts certify cannot be dealt with at any private works existing in the island.
— from Greater Britain: A Record of Travel in English-Speaking Countries During 1866-7 by Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir

PRACTICAL HYGIENE: INCLUDING Air and Ventilation; Water, Supply and Purity; Food and the Detection of Adulterations; Sewage Removal, Disposal, and Treatment; Epidemics, &c., &c. BY SURGEON-MAJOR A. M. DAVIES, D.P.H.Camb., Late Assistant-Professor of Hygiene, Army Medical School.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

There are the early Christian communities, bound together by tender ties of brotherhood; storms of persecution fanning high the flame of courage and faith; a new purity and sweetness of domestic life spreading itself like the coming of the dawn.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

Finally, reaching a commanding point where almost that entire camp could be seen—the men were just beginning their morning duties, and evidences of life and activity were becoming apparent—we involuntarily stopped.
— from The Every-day Life of Abraham Lincoln A Narrative And Descriptive Biography With Pen-Pictures And Personal Recollections By Those Who Knew Him by Francis F. (Francis Fisher) Browne