It was Passepartout himself, who had slipped upon the pyre in the midst of the smoke and, profiting by the still overhanging darkness, had delivered the young woman from death!
— from Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne

On the face of this aged queen of our cathedrals, by the side of a wrinkle, one always finds a scar.
— from Notre-Dame de Paris by Victor Hugo

For, in general, a man's memory is as imperfect as his intellect; and he must make a practice of reflecting upon the lessons he has learned and the events he has experienced, if he does not want them both to sink gradually into the gulf of oblivion.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; Counsels and Maxims by Arthur Schopenhauer

The pious Lewis survived his brothers, and embraced the whole empire of Charlemagne; but the nations and the nobles, his bishops and his children, quickly discerned that this mighty mass was no longer inspired by the same soul; and the foundations were undermined to the centre, while the external surface was yet fair and entire.
— 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

He that could find the bonds that tie these heaps of loose little bodies together so firmly; he that could make known the cement that makes them stick so fast one to another, would discover a great and yet unknown secret: and yet when that was done, would he be far enough from making the extension of body (which is the cohesion of its solid parts) intelligible, till he could show wherein consisted the union, or consolidation of the parts of those bonds or of that cement, or of the least particle of matter that exists.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

Whilst here and there great fishes in the spray Their silvery fins beneath the sun display, Or their blue tails lash up from out the surge, Like to a flock the sea its fleece doth fling; The horizon's edge bound by a brazen ring; Waters and sky in mutual azure merge.
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

Proud of his steeds, he smokes along the field; His father's hydra fills his ample shield; A hundred serpents hiss about the brims; The son of Hercules he justly seems, By his broad shoulders and gigantic limbs."
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

It was some seconds before they realised what had happened to them, but, when they did, they began to shout lustily for the boy to stop.
— from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

In the selection of ancient laws, he seems to have viewed his predecessors without jealousy, and with equal regard: the series could not ascend above the reign of Adrian, and the narrow distinction of Paganism and Christianity, introduced by the superstition of Theodosius, had been abolished by the consent of mankind.
— 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

As regards his Irish policy, Sir Robert Peel never recovered this blow, the severity of which was proportionably increased by its occurrence at a moment of unprecedented success.
— from Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

In the wet season, portions of it, being afloat, would undulate under the weight of a passing load; and occasionally a horse's leg would be entrapped, and possibly snapped short by the sudden yielding or revolution of one of the cylinders below.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

M. Boell, who left the Secretaryship of the French Legation in Peking to become the special correspondent of Le Temps , was here in 1892 on his way from Kweiyang, in Kweichow, to Tonquin, and a few months later Captain d'Amade, the Military Secretary of the French Legation, completed a similar journey from Chungking.
— from An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma by George Ernest Morrison

Mr. Mac-Morlan was not himself in office when that incident took place; but he was well acquainted with all the circumstances, and promised that our hero should have them detailed by the sheriff-depute himself, if, as he proposed, he should become a settler in that part of Scotland.
— from Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete by Walter Scott

[7] VISIT TO THE DAIRY. HEN Rosy opened her eyes the next morning the sun was shining so brightly that she was obliged to shut them again.
— from A Walk and a Drive. by Thomas Miller

The old line of Russian troops all about—just as clean peasantry as our forces—but officered by the straight military class, impervious so far as a body to any shaft of the propagandist.
— from The Hive by Will Levington Comfort

The duchess sent a second time, and was told, in reply to her invitation, that the Lecouvreur was about to appear on the stage, but that she would obey her commands when she quitted it.
— from Queens of the French Stage by H. Noel (Hugh Noel) Williams

19:019:013 Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me: then shall I be upright, and I shall be innocent from the great transgression.
— from The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms by Anonymous

The Contessa, who was a woman of the world, nodded quietly and smiled as if she had seen nothing, but she at once began to steer her daughter in a divergent direction.
— from Whosoever Shall Offend by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

An' then he seen what he had done, an' that it was more than an even break that Phil wouldn't live, an' so figgered that his chance was better to stay an' run a bluff by comin' for help, an' all that.
— from When A Man's A Man by Harold Bell Wright