Yet soul be sure the first intent remains, and shall be carried out, Perhaps even now the time has arrived.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

From the moment she got into the chair, and they had entered within the city walls, she found, as she looked around, through the gauze window, at the bustle in the streets and public places and at the immense concourse of people, everything naturally so unlike what she had seen elsewhere.
— from Hung Lou Meng, or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel, Book I by Xueqin Cao

A few military men I have discoursed with, are of another opinion; they tell me the rifle-men of the western army were recruited from Kentucky, and other remote settlements, and are all experienced back-woods-men , who have been great part of their lives in the habits of Indian fighting; that the general is forming a body of cavalry, on principles entirely new, from which much is expected; in short, that Wayne will oblige the Indians to bury the hatchet on his own terms.
— from Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic. by William Priest

When they had crossed the first green valley, they found the city of Pastime empty, not a creature in it!
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

I make this a chapter of personal experience, not for any personal gratification, but because of the desire
— from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon A True Romance of Patriotic Heroism Christian Devotion and Final Martyrdom by Oliver W. (Oliver Woodson) Nixon

61 Ben mi credea passar mio tempo omai 186 Ben sapev' io che natural consiglio 66 [Pg 410] Cantai, or piango; e non men di dolcezza 203 Cara la vita, e dopo lei mi pare 225 Cereato ho sempre selitaria vita 223 Cesare,
— from The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Francesco Petrarca

A chain of peaks extends northwards from Cape Conway to Mount Drysander, and forms a fine amphitheatre of hills on the western side of the Whitsunday Passage.
— from The Last Voyage: To India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' by Annie Brassey

Not compromises; not gradual and circumspect approaches; not prudent considerations of political economy, nor sound sociological principles; but simple faith in God and a blast on the ram's horn.
— from The Subterranean Brotherhood by Julian Hawthorne

Under the able and judicious management of Nelson Lee, and with a change of performances every night, good business was done to the last.
— from The Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs by Thomas Frost

Such are the concepts of possibility, existence, necessity, substance, cause, etc. with their opposites or correlates.
— from A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' by Norman Kemp Smith