Casting my eyes upwards, I beheld a spectacle which froze the current of my blood.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

"The author of The Prince ," he writes, "was always his guide," and he goes on to describe the "parrot cries placed in the mouths of the people," the "hired writers, salaried newspapers, mercenary poets and corrupt ministers employed to mislead our vanity methodically"--all this being carried on by "the scholars of Machiavelli under the orders of his cleverest disciple."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Man lives in a community, man enjoys the advantages of a community (and what advantages!
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Indeed, Preston records that in 1808, at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Covent Garden Theatre, by the Prince of Wales, as Grand Master, "the Grand Lodge was opened by Charles Marsh, Esq., attended by the Masters and Wardens of all the regular lodges;" and, throughout the description of the ceremonies, no notice is taken of Past Masters as forming any part of the Grand Lodge.
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

[5715] si diligenter consideres, quid per os et nares et caeteros corporis meatus egreditur, vilius sterquilinium nunquam vidisti .
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

44 The census being now completed, which he had expedited by the terror of a law passed on those not rated, with threats of imprisonment and death, he issued a proclamation that all the Roman citizens, horse and foot, should attend at [Pg 59] the dawn of day in the Campus Martius, each in his century.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

The credit of the tradition is rather shaken than confirmed by another story which ascribes the foundation of the sanctuary to a certain Manius Egerius, who gave rise to the saying, “There are many Manii at Aricia.”
— from The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion by James George Frazer

E.g., in the latest utterance of the spiritualistic philosophy (Bowne's Introduction to Psychological Theory, 1887, published only three days before this writing) one of the first sentences which catch my eye is this: "What remembers?
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

The three books published some time since, which are in a manner an entire work, were kindly received; yet, in the French, they come far short of these two, which are also entire pieces; for the satire is all general here, much more obvious, and consequently more entertaining.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

I am not quite sure whether clever men ever dance.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

But nae doubt things were strangely changed in his country sin' the sad and sorrowfu' Union;" an event to which Andrew referred every symptom of depravity or degeneracy which he remarked among his countrymen, more especially the inflammation of reckonings, the diminished size of pint-stoups, and other grievances, which he pointed out to me during our journey.
— from Rob Roy — Volume 02 by Walter Scott

Later this board is removed and the joint filled with asphalt so that the concrete may expand without danger of cracking the road.
— from Motor Truck Logging Methods Engineering Experiment Station Series, Bulletin No. 12 by Frederick Malcolm Knapp

He would then, in reality, be supposed to say: "I have not been able to effect by my construction of the universe, by my divine decrees, by my eternal laws, a particular object; I am now going to change my eternal ideas and immutable laws, to endeavor to accomplish what I have not been able to do by means of them."
— from A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 07 by Voltaire

As it was just then clear moonlight every night, I sat up and watched on this side of the stream, just opposite the cow, for five nights.
— from Adventures in Bolivia by C. H. (Cecil Herbert) Prodgers

I closed my eyes.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Eva. Come, my Euphrasia, in this interval Together we will seek the sacred altar, And thank the God, whose presence fills the dome,
— from The Grecian Daughter by Arthur Murphy

In looking over publishers' lists I am constantly coming across good books out of print, which are practically unknown to this generation, and yet are more profitable, truer to life and character, more entertaining and amusing, than most of those fresh from the press month by month.
— from Literary Copyright by Charles Dudley Warner

I was very low-spirited, but, as the bright, good-looking lad at my side nudged me with his elbow, I turned from casting my eyes round the great bare oak-panelled room, with its long desks, to the kind of pulpit at the lower end, facing a bigger and more important-looking erection at the upper end, standing upon a broad daïs raised a foot above the rest of the room.
— from Burr Junior by George Manville Fenn

It will be remembered that in the embryo the ovary contains many epithelial tubules derived from the germinal epithelium that covers the surface of the ovary.
— from A Text-book of Diseases of Women by Charles B. (Charles Bingham) Penrose