And all through the tempest, the frost and the snows, 'Tis the shimmering light on our black sky-line; 'Tis the famous inn which the guide-book shows, Whereat one can eat, and sleep, and recline; 'Tis an angel that holds in his magic hands The sleep, which ecstatic dream commands, Who remakes up the beds of the naked and poor; 'Tis the fame of the gods, 'tis the granary blest, 'Tis the purse of the poor, and his birth-place of rest, To the unknown Heavens, 'tis the wide-open door.
— from The Flowers of Evil by Charles Baudelaire

Still, during the first eight or ten years of their married life, when the children were young, they had at least appeared to the casual eye as, say, a rectangular parallelogram.
— from Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

inhabitants of the country side are merely poverty-stricken slaves, draft cattle under a yoke, moving on as they are goaded, caring for nothing and embarrassed by nothing, provided they can eat and sleep at regular hours.
— from The Ancient Regime by Hippolyte Taine

The journals of the House of Commons are filled with reports of contested elections, and sheriffs are repeatedly found kneeling at the bar of the House to receive censure or pardon for such offences.[Footnote: Commons Journals, I., 511, 556, 801, 854, 884, etc.]
— from The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background of American History, 1300-1600 by Edward Potts Cheyney

Of immense knowledge, of consummate experience, a skillful and renowned practitioner, principal physician of a large hospital, Dr. Griffon had but one defect—that of making, if we may express it, a complete oversight of the patient, and only attending to the disease: young or old, male or female, rich or poor, no matter; he thought only of the medical fact, more or less curious or interesting in a scientific point of view, which the subject offered.
— from Mysteries of Paris — Volume 02 by Eugène Sue

But the people of Ravenna had already canonically elected a successor, and refused to acknowledge the archbishop sent them by the emperor.
— from The Lives of the Saints, Volume 02 (of 16): February by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Come, Elsie and Sarah and Rosy!
— from Sweet P's by Julie M. Lippmann

He was eminently truthful, staunch, and brave; he had a clear eye, a strong and ready hand, cool judgment, stern decision, and a tender heart.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

It will be readily understood that such a king would trouble himself to a certain extent about such a rebel as Lord Linnæus Clancharlie.
— from The Man Who Laughs: A Romance of English History by Victor Hugo

Our cruel enemies are strong and ruthless.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Three years later Dr. Bestor removed to Greensboro, taking with him as far as practicable all that pertained to LaFayette Academy, and in that chief town of the canebrake established another school and remained at its head for a number of years.
— from Makers and Romance of Alabama History by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Riley