That dark story of the past fades little by little every day, and there may come a time in which the shadow my lady's wickedness has cast upon the young man's life will utterly vanish away.
— from Lady Audley's Secret by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon

1112b] Again, we do not deliberate respecting such arts or sciences as are exact and independent: as, for instance, about written characters, because we have no doubt how they should be formed; but we do deliberate on all buch things as are usually done through our own instrumentality, but not invariably in the same way; as, for instance, about matters connected with the healing art, or with money-making; and, again, more about piloting ships than gymnastic exercises, because the former has been less exactly determined, and so forth; and more about arts than sciences, because we more frequently doubt respecting the former.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

I asked of God, at once in anguish and humility, if I had not been long enough desolate, afflicted, tormented; and might not soon taste bliss and peace once more.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

“I am at a loss for a compliment in return, as you may suppose,” answered Radclyffe; “but Lady Erpingham deserves a penance for even hinting at the possibility of being ever less charming than she is; so I shall hold my tongue.”
— from Godolphin, Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He was trying to get two names back to his memory, and he felt sure he had much better let events discover and display themselves.
— from The Dictator by Justin McCarthy

Johann Carl Schauer, Johann Sebastian Bachs Lebensbild: Eine Denkschrift auf seinen 100jähringen Todestag.
— from Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work by Johann Nikolaus Forkel