In consequence of demolitions and reconstructions, the Paris of his youth, that Paris which he bore away religiously in his memory, is now a Paris of days gone by.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

For besides instilling a contempt of death, and relieving pain so as to enable men to bear it, we have added the appeasing of grief, than which there is no greater evil to man.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

All those things which heretofore have been regarded as the causes of degeneration, are really its effects.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

After several days he met his rival, the minister’s son, who had spent all his money and was reduced to the disagreeable employment of a carrier of dust and rubbish.
— from The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

King Henry VII., about the year of Christ 1502, caused the chapel of our Lady, built by Henry III., with a tavern also, called the White Rose, near adjoining, to be taken down: in which plot of ground, on the 24th of January, the first stone of the new chapel was laid by the hands of Abbot Islip, Sir Reginald Bray, knight of the garter, Doctor Barnes, master of the Rolls, Doctor Wall, chaplain to the king, Master Hugh Aldham, chaplain to the countess of Darby and Richmond (the king’s mother), Sir Edward Stanhope, knight, and divers other: upon the which stone was engraven the same day and year, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

Our perplexities are traces of a primitive total confusion; our doubts are remnants of a quite gaping ignorance.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

The judiciary power of every government looks beyond its own local or municipal laws, and in civil cases lays hold of all subjects of litigation between parties within its jurisdiction, though the causes of dispute are relative to the laws of the most distant part of the globe.
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

And suddenly tearing away from their clinging arms she burst into a hysterical fit of tears, bowing herself on the chest of drawers and repeating incessantly, "O yes, yes, yes!" Having once given way she could not stop her weeping.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Since attention is selective, some one object normally claims thought and furnishes the center of departure and reference.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

After collecting for Mr. Cunningham, who was confined on board by sickness, a few specimens of those plants which, to me, appeared the most novel, we commenced our descent, and reached the bottom in safety; by which time the tide was ebbing so rapidly that we set off immediately on our return with a view of arriving on board by low-water, in order that no time might be lost in sending the boats up with our empty water-casks.
— from Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 2 by Philip Parker King

They took the castles of Dunoon and Roseneath, and laid waste many villages and farmsteads.
— from The Thirsty Sword: A Story of the Norse Invasion of Scotland (1262-1263) by Robert Leighton

"Yo' surely ain't forgot de ole Sea-Horse , Marse Hennery," said Bahama Bill, coming on deck and recognizing an old acquaintance in the boarding officer.
— from Bahama Bill, Mate of the Wrecking Sloop Sea-Horse by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

To Te Paka village there came one day another renegade white man, an Irish soldier named Charles Kane, or King.
— from The adventures of Kimble Bent: A story of wild life in the New Zealand bush by James Cowan

Thus, it was a social movement of the dispossessed, a cesspool of discontent and rage, of aggression too long suppressed but never sublimated, of justified social and political grievances irradiated by racism, national chauvinism, militarism and sadism.
— from Terrorists and Freedom Fighters by Samuel Vaknin

The grinning skulls of the Chief Justice of that kingdom and of the boldest and noblest advocates and defenders of the national liberties, exposed for years in the market-place, with the record of their death-sentence attached, informed the Spaniards, in language which the most ignorant could read, that the crime of defending a remnant of human freedom and constitutional law was sure to draw down condign punishment.
— from PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The Romans, among whom the more coarse and licentious dances derived from the Hetruscans, had at first prevailed, came at length to adopt the improvements of taste, and consequently of decency and regularity; the festivals, of which dancing was to compose the principal entertainment, were adapted to the season of the year.
— from A Treatise on the Art of Dancing by Giovanni-Andrea Gallini

All the bells of Cintra struck up a cheerful peal, and to their merry jinglings we hurried along through a dense cloud of dust, a rabble of children frolicking on either side, and their grandmothers hobbling after, telling their beads, and grinning from ear to ear at this triumph over the prince of darkness.
— from Italy; with sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford

The groomsmen of Ivar were dressed in their most costly garments, and all wore their cloaks of dignity and rank.
— from Ivar the Viking A romantic history based upon authentic facts of the third and fourth centuries by Paul B. (Paul Belloni) Du Chaillu

You had no business to come on deck, and run the chance of getting the cold into your wound.
— from The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston