May you be blest, my beloved, in all those you care for.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Phrygia, 78 n. Picardy, 215 n. Pickering, 3 n. Picts, the, xxiii , xxvi , xxix , xxx , xxxi , 7 , 9 , 205 , 219 , 385 , 391 ; their law of succession, 8 ; their incursions, 7 , 8 , 20 n., 23 , 26 , 28 , 30 ; subdued by Oswy and made subject to Northumbria, 94 , 191 , 244 , 381 n.; regain their Independence, 244 n., 286 , 381 n.; defeat Egfrid at Nechtansmere, 285 ; at peace with the English, 381 ; their conversion, 141 , 359 n., 383 ; attitude towards Easter question, 196 , 359 , 374 . Picts, King of, see Bridius , Bruide Mac Bili , Naiton , Oengus .
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

How would, I say, mine eyes be blessed made By looking on thee in the living day, When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
— from Shakespeare's Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Ugh! I grow angry and I curse them, and they feign penitence, but behind my back
— from Kim by Rudyard Kipling

"Something you have been buying, Miss Bridehead?"
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

For instance, in the Mysteries of Mithras, in Persia, where there were seven stages or degrees of initiation, there was erected in the temples, or rather caves,—for it was in them that the initiation was conducted,—a high ladder, of seven steps or gates, each of which was dedicated to one of the planets, which was typified by one of the metals, the topmost step representing the sun, so that, beginning at the bottom, we have Saturn represented by lead, Venus by tin, Jupiter by brass, Mercury by iron, Mars by a mixed metal, the Moon by silver, and the Sun by gold, the whole being a symbol of the sidereal progress of the solar orb through the universe.
— from The Symbolism of Freemasonry Illustrating and Explaining Its Science and Philosophy, Its Legends, Myths and Symbols by Albert Gallatin Mackey

How would (I say) mine eyes be blessed made, By looking on thee in the living day, When in dead night thy fair imperfect shade, Through heavy sleep on sightless eyes doth stay!
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

The building looks best by moonlight, because the older portions of it, being stained with age, contrast unpleasantly with the newer and whiter portions.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

For the scheme of the Government fulfilled all the conditions required by the amendment, except in the matter of retirement; and that was one of those details which could not have been put into a bill beforehand, but must be dealt with in the light and under the guidance of experience.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIV July and October, 1871 by Various

In most cases counter-extension may be best managed by a weight and pulley.
— from A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Joseph Bell

The pedestal only stands erect, but badly marred by the chisel in chipping off pieces, by hundreds of visitors Our teachers inquired if I would not like a chip from the tomb.
— from A Woman's Life-Work — Labors and Experiences of Laura S. Haviland by Laura S. (Laura Smith) Haviland

The growth and the cost of these roads may be briefly mentioned by quoting a statement from the annual message of the governor of Pennsylvania in 1838, that that commonwealth then had two thousand five hundred miles of turnpikes which had cost $37,000,000.
— from Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle

And my big boy, my betrothed boy, is still le petit du jeune Joyselle."
— from The Halo by Bettina Von Hutten

I have heard a great many people speak the piece beginning— To be or not to be, but Mr. Booth does it better than any one I have ever heard.
— from Bill Nye's Cordwood by Bill Nye

Many public affairs, such as popular education,[1] private corporations, and the organization of the smaller political divisions, can be better managed by the State than by the National Government, and are therefore properly left to the State's direction.
— from Elements of Civil Government A Text-Book for Use in Public Schools, High Schools and Normal Schools and a Manual of Reference for Teachers by Alexander L. Peterman

Divide these numbers by ten, and the excellently brief and lucid Scottish summary by Buchanan may be taken as the approximately true and exact.
— from Early Kings of Norway by Thomas Carlyle

Mr. Henry Phillips, in his Musical and Personal Recollections (1864), regrets that when Roubiliac's Handel 'was brought to the hammer, and sold by Mr. Squibb on the 16th March 1832, for two hundred and five guineas, the Sacred Harmonic Society did not purchase it in place of its being bought by Mr. Brown, of University Street.'
— from Art in England: Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook