The Destinies, or the natures and fates of things, are justly made Pan’s sisters, as the chain of natural causes links together the rise, duration, and corruption; the exaltation, degeneration, and workings; the processes, the effects, and changes, of all that can any way happen to things.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

A cake of new clean lemon soap arises, diffusing light and perfume.)
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

At Chemmis one night Chariclea left alone yields to despair and vows that if she learns Theagenes is dead, she will join him in the shades.
— from Essays on the Greek Romances by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight

Curse or no curse, Leander shall be my wedded husband.
— from Children of the Dawn : Old Tales of Greece by E. F. (Elsie Finnimore) Buckley

However, Shen-hsiu seems to have been the best known Master, eventually becoming the titular head of the Lankavatara faction, also to be known as the Northern school—possibly because Shen-hsiu brought it to the urbanized, sophisticated capitals of North China, Loyang and Ch'ang-an.
— from The Zen Experience by Thomas Hoover

Alongside the brutalities and agonies of the war, the injustice and cruelties of normal civil live seem pale and tame.
— from A Sheaf by John Galsworthy

[19] write bombast, and call it a style; Our Townshend make speeches, and I shall compile: New Lauders and Bowers the Tweed shall cross over, No countryman living their tricks to discover; Detection her taper shall quench to a spark, And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

But now he is gone, and we want a detector, Our Dodds 26 shall be pious, our Kenricks 27 shall lecture— Macpherson 28 write bombast, and call it a style— Our Townshend make speeches, and I shall compile; New Lauders and Bowers the Tweed shall cross over, No countryman living their tricks to discover; Detection her taper shall quench to a spark, And Scotchman meet Scotchman, and cheat in the dark.
— from The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith