Like a boil is the evil deed: it itcheth and irritateth and breaketh forth—it speaketh honourably.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Not alone with the vernal sun, but in the eternal dawn of Spirit!
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda

Christianity however, must have been very unequally diffused over Pontus; since, in the middle of the third century, there was no more than seventeen believers in the extensive diocese of Neo-Caesarea.
— 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

“Would it not be better if the end did come, the very end?”
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It was hard to find the president at the office, and when one did find him he would say with tears in his eyes that he hadn’t a moment to spare; the inspector visited the school at most once in three years, and knew nothing whatever about his work, as he had been in the Excise Duties Department, and had received the post of school inspector through influence.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And again; it had been enunciated by the Apostle explicitly, though briefly, in the earliest directly doctrinal passage which bears on the subject; ‘One Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things and we through Him
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

[7] For more than six months the poet lacked the courage to seek his vision again, but in the early days of 1833 he found Juliette among the actresses Harel suggested to him at the Porte St. Martin for his play, Lucrèce Borgia .
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

No politician in Chicago ranked higher in their confidence; he had been at it a long time—had been the business agent in the city council of old Durham, the self-made merchant, way back in the early days, when the whole city of Chicago had been up at auction.
— from The Jungle by Upton Sinclair

When pestilence and other calamities had fallen on the land, in consequence of a long and severe drought, the priests took the animals by night and threatened them, but if the evil did not abate they slew the beasts.
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

The failure was not only signal, but in the end discreditable; for while success is no sure proof of merit, nor its opposite of indesert, the wide miscalculation of the ultimate result, which kept the Boers so long inactive before Ladysmith, and saved Natal, while reinforcements were (p. 058) well known all the while to be hasting across the sea, is entitled to scant respect from any indications in its favour.
— from Story of the War in South Africa, 1899-1900 by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

Finally, there appeared a work which subsequently ran into twenty editions and spread the name of Martin of Gallardon throughout the whole of France: Relation Concerning the Events Which Happened to a Laborer of La Beauce in the Early Days of 1816 .
— from The Spell of the Heart of France: The Towns, Villages and Chateaus about Paris by André Hallays

He wore a wide-leaved, loosely-shaped hat of dark felt; with a silken cord round the crown-such as had been worn by the Beggars in the early days of the revolt.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

Books in the early days of printing were much more generally written in Latin than in the vernacular, and ever more and more with references to Greek, 87 lately brought greatly into vogue by Erasmus and the Reformers.
— from Servetus and Calvin A Study of an Important Epoch in the Early History of the Reformation by Robert Willis

But that whirling burst of words was long before, in those earlier days of his work.
— from Golden Lads by Arthur Gleason

The workmen do not seem to have been actuated by the spirit of those builders "in the elder days of Art" who "... wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the gods see everywhere."
— from Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See by C. King Eley

This practice is, in my judgment, inconsistent with ideal chairmanship, but in the early days of the Council it was not without its uses.
— from Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell

All who had befriended the forlorn boy in those early days had benefited to an extraordinary degree.
— from The King of Diamonds: A Tale of Mystery and Adventure by Louis Tracy

The Boers in their precipitous cliffs and their forbidding ravines were too strong to be turned, and fortunately there was no necessity now for the frontal attacks which had been forced upon General Buller in the early days of the war when he had been left to fling himself against living mountains with the thinnest of “thin red (or khaki) lines.”
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 6 (of 8) From the Occupation of Pretoria to Mr. Kruger's Departure from South Africa, with a Summarised Account of the Guerilla War to March 1901 by Louis Creswicke