Claudian and Ovid often amuse their fancy by interchanging the metaphors and properties of liquid water, and solid ice.
— 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

Under the reign of Justinian, they acknowledged the god and the emperor of the Romans, and seven fortresses were built in the most accessible passages, to exclude the ambition of the Persian monarch.
— 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

My friends are so pleased with the improvement which I made in speech and lip-reading last year, that it has been decided best for me to continue my studies in New York another year I am delighted at the prospect, of spending another year in your great city I used to think that I should never feel "at home" in New York, but since I have made the acquaintance of so many people, and can look back to such a bright and successful winter there, I find myself looking forward to next year, and anticipating still brighter and better times in the Metropolis Please give my kindest love to Mr Hutton, and Mrs Riggs and Mr Warner too, although I have never had the pleasure of knowing him personally As I listen Venicewards, I hear Mr Hutton's pen dancing over the pages of his new book It is a pleasant sound because it is full of promise How much I shall enjoy reading it! Please pardon me, my dear Mrs Hutton, for sending you a typewritten letter across the ocean I have tried several times to write with a pencil on my little writing machine since I came home; but I have found it very difficult to do so on account of the heat The moisture of my hand soils and blurs the paper so dreadfully, that I am compelled to use my typewriter altogether And it is not my "Remington" either, but a naughty little thing that gets out of order on the slightest provocation, and cannot be induced to make a period... TO MRS.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Then, turning towards him, he said: "Sir, you think doubtless that all is for the best in the moral and physical world, and that nothing could be otherwise than it is?" "I, sir!" answered the scholar, "I know nothing of all that; I find that all goes awry with me; that no one knows either what is his rank, nor what is his condition, what he does nor what he ought to do; and that except supper, which is always gay, and where there appears to be enough concord, all the rest of the time is passed in impertinent quarrels; Jansenist against Molinist, Parliament against the Church, men of letters against men of letters, courtesans against courtesans, financiers against the people, wives against husbands, relatives against relatives—it is eternal war."
— from Candide by Voltaire

When the sun rises bright in the morning, and promises a glorious day, I never omit to exclaim, "There, now, they have another blessing from Heaven, which they will be sure to destroy: they spoil everything,—health, fame, happiness, amusement; and they do this generally through folly, ignorance, or imbecility, and always, according to their own account, with the best intentions!"
— from The Sorrows of Young Werther by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind, and poisons us.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Things which have been in the mores are put under police regulation and later under positive law.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Connected with no denomination are six or seven chapels or rooms, where as they meet they break bread in the morning and preach the Gospel in the evening.
— from The Religious Life of London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

As we were now within twenty miles of the fort, Morgan (his companion), who had had enough of it, determined to return, and I agreed to go back with the animals to the cache , and bring in the meat and packs.
— from Beyond the Old Frontier: Adventures of Indian-Fighters, Hunters, and Fur-Traders by George Bird Grinnell

Beneath it the machines are placed, into which the salmon fall when they attempt to leap over.
— from Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793. Vol. II by Alexander Mackenzie

He approved of the famous collection of editions of Horace by Douglas, mentioned by Pope [861] , who is said to have had a closet filled with them; and he added, 'every man should try to collect one book in that manner, and present it to a publick library.'
— from Life of Johnson, Volume 4 1780-1784 by James Boswell

"Look you," I said at length, "assuming that the charges you have brought against me are not shown to be worthless before the assizes, and reckoning that an order does not come from Hugh Boscawen to set me at liberty, I might on certain conditions be inclined to make a promise."
— from Mistress Nancy Molesworth: A Tale of Adventure by Joseph Hocking

Accordingly he came to the king, and accused them, saying, "There is a certain wicked nation, and it is dispersed over all the habitable earth that was under his dominion; a nation separate from others, unsociable, neither admitting the same sort of Divine worship that others do, nor using laws like to the laws of others, at enmity with thy people, and with all men, both in their manners and practices.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

Conversation at the Symposium.—After this the symposium will proceed according to certain general rules which it is Eunaius's duty to enforce; but in the main a "program" is something to be avoided.
— from A Day in Old Athens; a Picture of Athenian Life by William Stearns Davis

We give plants and animals time and space and freedom to develop, but the young human being is to man a piece of wax, a lump of clay, from which he can mould what he will.
— from Froebel as a pioneer in modern psychology by E. R. (Elsie Riach) Murray

The good monk began to be interested, to muse and pun, and finally to wonder.
— from The Makers of Modern Rome, in Four Books by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

[36] These everlasting thoughts of Nature, from having in olden times been simply mournful, became in the Middle Ages painful, bitter, weakening, and the heart thereby grew smaller.
— from La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages by Jules Michelet