What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes, whose lips may tell—what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm, manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household ties!
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

By reading only six hours a-day, I shall gain in the course of a twelve-month a great deal of instruction which I now feel myself to want.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

The boy replies, O Sir, however You'r very welcome, we do never Our Candles , Pipes or Fier grutch To daily customers and such, They'r Company (without expence,)
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

The Cabinet has its chosen expert adviser, the Commander-in-Chief; but rumour or surmise hints that his advice has been by no means uniformly followed.
— from Lessons of the War Being Comments from Week to Week to the Relief of Ladysmith by Spenser Wilkinson

The old wonder concerning this one, excited by a certain fashion of rendering his head in unison with his shoulders—as might the statue of Perfect Beauty turn upon its pedestal—with its baser residue of suspicion, had been happily allayed by a closer acquaintance with Allan.
— from The Seeker by Harry Leon Wilson

But Regina only shook her head, and turned away.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

April 13, Alexander Noble to Rebecca McFarland, by Rev. O. S. Harding.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

Nine guests were bidden to Sónnica's banquet, and as night closed in they came, some in chariots, others mounted on gaily caparisoned horses, passing between rows of slaves holding lighted torches.
— from Sónnica by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez

so that, thinking of the other, the alternative is, 'shall he be restrained, or shall he be left to his own will?'
— from The English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham

Prosser to Cirena Bickerstaff, by Rev. O. S. Harding.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer

But Rina only shook her head; and continued to murmur: "He want me die!
— from Two on the Trail: A Story of the Far Northwest by Hulbert Footner

I have always been of this opinion, that the forces and efforts of nature have a prescribed end, fixed and ordained by God, which it is impossible for ordinary powers to pass; and this is so not only in painting and sculpture, but universally in all arts and sciences; and that she gives power to one person that he may be a rule and example in a particular art, giving him the first place; so that afterwards, if any one desires to bring forth a great work in that art, worthy to be read or seen, he must work in the same way as the first great example, or, at least, similarly, and go by his road; for if he does not his work will be much inferior, the worse the more he diverges from the direct path.
— from Michael Angelo Buonarroti With Translations Of The Life Of The Master By His Scholar, Ascanio Condivi, And Three Dialogues From The Portugese By Francisco d'Ollanda by Holroyd, Charles, Sir