After a morning draft at the Star in Cheapside, I took him to the Exchange, thence home, but my wife having dined, I took him to Fish Street, and there we had a couple of lobsters, and dined upon them, and much discourse.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Only after we have once recognised that everything consists of lies and appearance, shall we have again earned the right to uphold this most beautiful of all fictions—virtue.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

For an august National Assembly must needs conquer these Refractories, Clerical or Laic, and thumbscrew them into obedience; yet, behold, always as you turn your legislative thumbscrew, and will press and even crush till Refractories give way,—King's Veto steps in, with magical paralysis; and your thumbscrew, hardly squeezing, much less crushing, does not act!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

I believe, we have cot upon the confines of Lucifer and the d—n'd!”
— from The Adventures of Roderick Random by T. (Tobias) Smollett

It gave him little surprise, however; for he had been revolving in his mind a change of life, and thought and hoped he saw his new-born resolutions carried out in this.
— from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

That very day the poem, The Awakening of the Waterfall , gushed forth and coursed on like a veritable cascade.
— from My Reminiscences by Rabindranath Tagore

For example, religious symbols then consist only in formless combinations of lines and colours, whose sense it is not easy to divine, as we shall see.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

I was deeply attached to old Job, who was one of the best and honestest men I have ever had to do with in any class of life, and really more of a friend than a servant, and the mere idea of anything happening to him brought a lump into my throat.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Now the conflicts of individuals with law and convention can be dramatized like all other human conflicts; but they are purely judicial; and the fact that we are much more curious about the suppressed relations between the man and the woman than about the relations between both and our courts of law and private juries of matrons, produces that sensation of evasion, of dissatisfaction, of fundamental irrelevance, of shallowness, of useless disagreeableness, of total failure to edify and partial failure to interest, which is as familiar to you in the theatres as it was to me when
— from Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by Bernard Shaw

Once you disappeared suddenly and when you returned you brought a crown of leaves and orange blossoms, which you placed upon my head, calling me Chloe.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

The dappled herd in peace may graze, The fish fling back the sun's bright rays; I bend no bow, I cast no line, The chase of Love alone is mine.
— from Bentley's Miscellany, Volume I by Various

"Because it takes some time, and some trouble," said James, "to pass any thing through the locks, and it is not worth while to do it, except in case of large and valuable ships.
— from Rollo in Holland by Jacob Abbott

Mr. Page called out loudly, and in walked from the conservatory Charlie, Ping Wang, and Fred.
— from Chatterbox, 1905. by Various

The American riders came on like a whirlwind.
— from Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. Laut

A vestal convicted of letting a man see her face is condemned to death.
— from The Indian Scout: A Story of the Aztec City by Gustave Aimard

Immediately on passing the gate of the city, you wind round the foot of the mountain, and descend into the village of Mouradiè; having the small mosque of Sultan Mourad on your right, and in front of you, the lofty chain of land along which you are 49 to travel.
— from The City of the Sultan; and Domestic Manners of the Turks, in 1836, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Miss (Julia) Pardoe

In view of the probability that there are those who may persist in the association of such evidence with the religious body of which the witness is a member, it may be proper to say, without discrediting in the least the witness' conviction of the revelation he had received, that no member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should, for one moment, regard such testimony as admissible in a court of law, and to make the case perfectly clear it may be further stated that such evidence would not be permissible even in a Church court, where rules of evidence, though not so technical, are founded largely upon the same principles that govern the rules of evidence in a court of law.
— from Gospel Doctrine: Selections from the Sermons and Writings of Joseph F. Smith by Joseph F. (Joseph Fielding) Smith

but they’re bare of the commonest comforts of life, as we know them.”
— from The Boy Scouts of the Field Hospital by Robert Shaler

He tells us that three years before his arrival some missionaries had been murdered by the Sohnese; the only specimen he met was an ignorant half-caste with a diploma from the Capuchins of Loanda, and a wife plus five concubines.
— from Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo, Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Chemical Composition : Carbonate of Lime and Organic matter.
— from The Magic and Science of Jewels and Stones by Isidore Kozminsky