A hemisphereless male will coo all day long and show distinct signs of sexual excitement, but his activity is without any object, it is entirely indifferent to him whether the she-bird be there or not.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

In Gibbon it is not always easy to bear in mind the exact dates but the course of events is ever clear and distinct; like a skilful general, though his troops advance from the most remote and opposite quarters, they are constantly bearing down and concentrating themselves on one point—that which is still occupied by the name, and by the waning power of Rome.
— 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

Malco slung his carbine and darted like a shot, with a cry of triumph, on his enemy.
— from The Guide of the Desert by Gustave Aimard

It was enough for him to create a wholly novel framework for the modern miracle of sculpture it enshrines, attending to such rules of composition as determine light and shade, and seeking by the slightness of mouldings and pilasters to enhance the terrible and massive forms that brood above the Medicean tombs.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

But she ate, slept, and was just as contented all day long as she had always been.
— from The Little Girl Lost A Tale for Little Girls by Eleanor Raper

You have never shone on me 'coldly and distantly like a star,' but again and again have stooped from the height of your heavenly character that you might lift me out of the mire.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe

He was the most extraordinary mixture of charity and drunkenness, lechery and self-sacrifice that I had ever come across.
— from The Stark Munro Letters Being series of twelve letters written by J. Stark Munro, M.B., to his friend and former fellow-student, Herbert Swanborough, of Lowell, Massachusetts, during the years 1881-1884 by Arthur Conan Doyle

He cast a dark look at Sandy.
— from Stormy Voyage Sandy Steele Adventures #3 by Robert Leckie

As it is, I fetch and carry all day long and scarcely earn money enough to pay for the boots I wear out."
— from Glories of Spain by Charles W. (Charles William) Wood

(Il tire un cercle autour de lui avec son épée.
— from Faust: A Lyric Drama in Five Acts by Charles Gounod

Je revois ce jeune teint—divinement jeune sous cette grande chevelure d'argent; cet air de lys au soleil, à la fois languissant et mystérieusement heureux.
— from Rose of the World by Egerton Castle