A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

[It is attractive] because Reason exerts a dominion over sensibility in order to extend it in conformity with its own realm (the practical) and to make it look out into the Infinite, which is for it an abyss.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

All things then being rightly examined and duly considered as they ought, there is no such cause of so general discontent, 'tis not in the matter itself, but in our mind, as we moderate our passions and esteem of things.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

Also the winds brought rumbling earthquake and duststorm, thunder and lightning and the lurid thunderbolt, which are the shafts of great Zeus, and carried the clangour and the warcry into the midst of the two hosts.
— from Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica by Hesiod

Some carried baskets filled with missiles: some had their aprons full; the women for their part brought rotten eggs and dead cats, stinking rabbits, and all kinds of putrid offal in baskets and in their arms, as if they had been things precious and costly.
— from The Orange Girl by Walter Besant

When he arrives at the convention, he needs something to show that he has been regularly elected a delegate, and this is furnished him by the secretary in the following form:— [231] Columbus, Ohio , March 30, 1906.
— from Elementary Composition by George R. (George Rice) Carpenter

The saddle, a famous Cheyenne and forty pounds in weight, was black, richly embossed, and decorated with bits of beaten silver which flashed back the sunlight.
— from Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up; Or, Bar-20 by Clarence Edward Mulford

A few weeks later the bills reach England, are duly accepted, and are capable of being rediscounted if the Bank needs additional free funds to buy more Council Bills and turn its money over again in another transaction of the same kind.
— from Indian Currency and Finance by John Maynard Keynes

As his father was poorly able to help him, the conscientious boy lived on two dollars a week, earning most of this pittance by rising early, and doing odd jobs before his employer opened his shop in the morning.
— from Lives of Poor Boys Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton

"He always was a well-behaved boy," remarked Eva; "and during the time he was in pa's office he told one of the clerks that he was very anxious to speak correctly."
— from Her Benny: A Story of Street Life by Silas K. (Silas Kitto) Hocking

Body rather elongated and depressed.
— from Ornithological Biography, Volume 1 (of 5) An Account of the Habits of the Birds of the United States of America by John James Audubon