For certainly the matter is of short duration, if it be conducted with a uniform course of exertions; nor do we by these intermissions and interruptions expedite the attainment of our hopes.
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

[8] los fríos de la noche sin fin, the chill of endless night; death .
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

As she thus stood, tamed in her race of love by the imperative call of exhausted nature, Dr. Hale loomed through the snowy haze, and, reading instinctively who she was and whither she was bound, proffered his assistance for the remaining half of the journey.
— from Lancashire Idylls (1898) by Marshall Mather

Polypheme, too, in the Cyclops of Euripides, no doubt a very sound theologian, says, his stomach is his only deity; and Xenophon tells us, that as the Athenians exceeded all other people in the number of their gods, so they exceeded them also in the number of their feasts.
— from Pelham — Complete by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

Their own science is dead among Jews, and the intellectual concerns of European nations do not appeal to them, because, faithless to themselves, they are strangers to abstract truth and slaves of self-interest.
— from Jewish Literature and Other Essays by Gustav Karpeles

A kind of awe had descended upon them—not in the least awe of Vanderpoel, who, with other multi-millionaires, were served up each week with cheerful neighbourly comment or equally neighbourly disrespect, in huge Sunday papers read throughout the land—but awe of the unearthly luck which had fallen without warning to good old G. S., who lived like the rest of them in a hall bedroom on ten per, earned by tramping the streets for the Delkoff.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

Meanwhile your father and myself went through the usual course of education, no difference being made in that respect between us.
— from Clara Vaughan, Volume 2 (of 3) by R. D. (Richard Doddridge) Blackmore

Pale, with a pallor inborn that sun and wind could not shade, a wide grin splitting his face, the Dutchman came on eagerly, no doubt in the hope that he would find a spark of conscious life in Morgan that he could stamp out in some predesigned cruelty.
— from Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Her success in creating a colonial empire anticipated with extraordinary precision the course during the nineteenth century of European national development.
— from The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly