On the 29th instant the armies operating against Richmond will be moved by our left, for the double purpose of turning the enemy out of his present position around Petersburg, and to insure the success of the cavalry under General Sheridan, which will start at the same time, in its efforts to reach and destroy the South Side and Danville railroads.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

You fling me back on lust for a passion—vice for an occupation?”
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

There shall your image stand, midst rosy bowers, Reviving through the ceaseless hours An altar built of living flowers.
— from Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes by Jean de La Fontaine

"God is light, and in him is no darkness at all; and if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another." Because the light is one in all, and therefore it binds us together in the bonds of love; for it is not only light, but love—that love which casts out all fear.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

A bright band of light fell through the parlour door into the part of the shop behind the counter.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

My request was greeted with a rude burst of laughter from the whole set.
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He presently took from a drawer a carefully tied bundle of letters, few, very few, as correspondence counts nowadays.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Peter Langtoffe says, at the battle of Lewis, fought in 1264, ‘The king schewed forth his schild, his dragon full austere.’
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

When I maintain that language must have come by inspiration, I do not mean that inspiration is required for rhetorick, and all the beauties of language; for when once man has language, we can conceive that he may gradually form modifications of it.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

The best of lessons, for a good many people, would be to listen at a keyhole.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Thus—to anticipate a little by way of illustration—every Race in its evolution is said to be born under the direct influence of one of the Planets; Race the First receiving its breath of life from the Sun, as will be seen later on; while the Third Humanity—those who fell into generation, or from androgynes became separate entities, one male and the other female—is said to be under the direct influence of Venus, “ the ‘ little sun ’ in which the solar orb stores his light .”
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 2 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

I 'll catch but one little fish.
— from Long Will by Florence Converse

There is no doubt that a lengthening of life in the female has arisen in the bees and ants, for both sexes of the saw-flies, which are believed to be the ancestors of bees, only live for a few weeks.
— from Essays Upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems Authorised Translation by August Weismann

"It was a rare bit of luck for you that you made us out, no doubt, and a rare bit of luck for us too."
— from A Chapter of Adventures by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Judge Sener graduated when quite a young man, with the degree of Bachelor of Law, from the University of Virginia, and was a very successful practitioner for many years in the courts of this State.
— from Historic Fredericksburg: The Story of an Old Town by John T. (John Tackett) Goolrick

They were all scantily clothed in that salmon-colored cloth which one associates with Hindu mendicants, and, at first sight, gave me the impression of a band of loathsome fakirs.
— from The Works of Rudyard Kipling: One Volume Edition by Rudyard Kipling

The maid was still awake because of terror; she was glad, indeed, to have caught sight of “By-an’-by” Brown’s broad, kindly young countenance in the beam of light from the kitchen, though downcast, and she snuggled deeper into 198 the blankets, not afraid any more.
— from Every Man for Himself by Norman Duncan

My step-mother took the bundle of letters, from which she handed me three, and went away to share the contents of her own with her sympathetic relatives below.
— from The Doctor's Daughter by Vera