In his young alertness Amiel seemed to be entering upon life as a conqueror; one would have said the future was all his own.”
— from Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel by Henri Frédéric Amiel

In the sixth book of his Æneid (426-429) the gentle Virgil makes us hear the plaintive voices and sobbing of the babes who weep upon the threshold of Hades, Continuo àuditæ voces, vagitus et ingens, Infantumque animæ flentes in limine primo, unhappy in that they had but entered upon life and never known the sweetness of it, and whom, torn from their mothers' breasts, a dark day had cut off and drowned in bitter death— Quos dulcis vitæ exsortes et at ubere raptos Abstulit atra dies et funere mersit acerbo.
— from Tragic Sense Of Life by Miguel de Unamuno

to be expecting every moment to be dragged out and have their brains knocked out, and then to be eaten up like a calf that is killed for a dainty.
— from The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Beat eggs until light; add milk to eggs and add slowly to mixture.
— from New Royal Cook Book by Royal Baking Powder Company

As a rule, however, it should not be encroached upon lightly, and, even when enjambment is practised, the individual line should have a thinkable self-sufficiency.
— from Historical Manual of English Prosody by George Saintsbury

The dorsal of these, the sensory root (d.n.), has a swelling upon it, the dorsal ganglion, and-- by experiments upon living animals-- has been shown to contain only afferent fibres; the ventral, the motor root , is without a ganglion, and entirely or mainly motor.
— from Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

"Dr. Pye-Smith said: 'Many of the experiments inflicted no pain or injury whatever, and the great majority of the rest were rendered painless by the use of those beneficial agents which abolished pain and had themselves been discovered by experiments upon living animals.'
— from Vivisection by Albert Leffingwell

“Bah!” ejaculated Uncle Luke, as the young man finished.
— from The Haute Noblesse: A Novel by George Manville Fenn