“This is always a benefit, for the monarch takes with one hand and gives with the other; he improves towns and roads, founds schools, protects the sciences, cherishes the arts; in fine, he directs this tax towards improving the condition and increasing the happiness of his people.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Neptune, concerned for the loss of the Grecians, upon seeing the fortification forced by Hector, (who had entered the gate near the station of the Ajaces,) assumes the shape of Calchas, and inspires those heroes to oppose him: then, in the form of one of the generals, encourages the other Greeks who had retired to their vessels.
— from The Iliad by Homer

‘Heathcliff did not glance my way, and I gazed up, and contemplated his features almost as confidently as if they had been turned to stone.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

She had cried out, when I carried up her dinner, that she couldn’t bear any longer being in the cold; and I told her the master was going to Thrushcross Grange, and Earnshaw and I needn’t hinder her from descending; so, as soon as she heard Heathcliff’s horse trot off, she made her appearance, donned in black, and her yellow curls combed back behind her ears as plain as a Quaker: she couldn’t comb them out.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

" "Chieftains of Thark," I cried, turning to the assembled council and ignoring Tal Hajus, "I have been a chief among you, and today I have fought for Thark shoulder to shoulder with her greatest warrior.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

She stepped behind me and whispered crossly, ‘Take yourself and your dusters off; when company are in the house, servants don’t commence scouring and cleaning in the room where they are!’
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

The Canadian and I took him up, and rubbed his contracted arms till he became sensible.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne

If the spiritual meaning had been revealed, they would not have loved it, and, unable to bear it, they would not have been zealous of the preservation of their books and their [Pg 158] ceremonies; and if they had loved these spiritual promises, and had preserved them incorrupt till the time of the Messiah, their testimony would have had no force, because they had been his friends.
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

a very friend of mine, Finding by conference with me, that I liu’d Too chaſt for my complexion (and indeed Too honeſt for my place, Sir) did aduiſe me
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson

The walnut grows wild on the Caucasus and in the Himalaya, where Dr. Hooker 129 found the fruit of full size, but "as hard as a hickory-nut."
— from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication by Charles Darwin

Thou hast been a den of thieves, the bulwark of superstition and of ignorance; the insatiable sphinx of human flesh, a tyrant among despotic establishments, a monument of the barbarism of the middle ages, the scum of tribunals; finally, thou hast constituted an invention that has stood alone, and without a parallel in ancient or modern times!"
— from History of the Inquisition from Its Establishment Till the Present Time by William Sime

[Pg 46] the most beautiful of her age, and the young scholar could not long remain cold and indifferent to her charms.
— from Legends of the Rhine by Wilhelm Ruland

On the other hand the chief revenue officer had no very kindly feelings for the lieutenant, because he knew that the lieutenant had found him out for the coward and incapable that he was, and it is not in human nature for any man to feel kindly toward another who has found him out to that extent.
— from Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains by George Cary Eggleston

"Osterbridge Hawsey," whispered Ned Cilley, as if to himself, as he followed the direction of Chris's eyes.
— from Mr. Wicker's Window by Carley Dawson

Pg 61] cooks (especially those in the cities and in the households of the rich) display a high degree of skill.
— from Foods and Culinary Utensils of the Ancients by Charles Martyn

In an urn from one of the lake settlements six specimens were discovered, the designs of which appeared quite as clearly as if they had only just been engraved."
— from The Prehistoric World; Or, Vanished Races by Emory Adams Allen

he asked, 'are we to see a poor creature in danger of being imprisoned if she is recognised—and of being carried off against her will by a husband whom she loathes, if he finds her—are we to see such a woman and not be instantly fired by every generous emotion of compassion and indignation to help that woman at the mere cost of a few days' service and a few guineas spent?'
— from For Faith and Freedom by Walter Besant

Q. You could only tell the direction in which the words came? A. If they had been Pittsburgh troops had been there, I suppose I could have told every man of them.
— from Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877 Read in the Senate and House of Representatives May 23, 1878 by 1877 Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July