Unaccountably, perhaps, and close upon some space of unusually frequent intercourse—some congeries of rather exciting little circumstances, whose natural sequel would rather seem to be the quickening than the suspension of communication—there falls a stilly pause, a wordless silence, a long blank of oblivion.
— from Villette by Charlotte Brontë

And Wrong Ignorance of the causes, and originall constitution of Right, Equity, Law, and Justice, disposeth a man to make Custome and Example the rule of his actions; in such manner, as to think that Unjust which it hath been the custome to punish; and that Just, of the impunity and approbation whereof they can produce an Example, or (as the Lawyers which onely use the false measure of Justice barbarously call it)
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Cut Bank Chalets via Triple Divide Pass (7,400) and Triple Divide Peak (8,001) to Red Eagle Camp on Red Eagle Lake (4,702), 16 miles.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

Mas si se desea hacer composturas o reparaciones en los muebles, habrá que
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

But the Church of Rome evinced little interest in the ancient ways of the people among whom she took root.
— from Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark by J. C. (Jens Christian) Aaberg

A number of roach are thronging about a clump of rushes, examining leaves and stalks just as long-tailed tits search tree-tops and bark; they are inside it and outside it, sucking up the water-snails and insects.
— from Grim: The Story of a Pike by Svend Fleuron

The better class of readers expected little from a novel about a young lady's entrance into the world.
— from The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 1 by Fanny Burney

80 quidquid turiferis spirat Panchaia silvis, quidquid odoratus longe blanditur Hydaspes, quidquid ab extremis ales longaeva colonis colligit optato repetens exordia leto, [124] in venas disperge meas et flamine largo 85 rura fove.
— from Claudian, volume 2 (of 2) With an English translation by Maurice Platnauer by Claudius Claudianus

“When President McKinley [146] said that the character of Robert E. Lee was the common inheritance of both North and South he healed the division the war had made,” I heard someone say.
— from The Soul of John Brown by Stephen Graham

No man who has a proper conception of the character of Robert E. Lee as a soldier and as a great military commander will believe it.
— from Lee and Longstreet at High Tide: Gettysburg in the Light of the Official Records by Helen Dortch Longstreet

I members one time I got a long old splinter in my foot and couldn't get it out, so my mammy bound a piece of fat meat round my foot and let it stay bout a couple days, then the splinter come out real easy like.
— from Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves, Arkansas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

As stated in the chapter on Reproduction, every living organism begins life as a single cell, or globule of protoplasm.
— from The Biology, Physiology and Sociology of Reproduction Also Sexual Hygiene with Special Reference to the Male by Winfield Scott Hall

The coolness, courage, energy, and aptitude for great affairs, which marked Richard Lee in the seventeenth century, were unmistakably present in the character of Robert E. Lee in the nineteenth century.
— from A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee by John Esten Cooke

The Church of Rome ( ecclesia latinorum ) is not the Catholic Church, but only a certain branch of it; and, therefore, although the whole of that branch should have erred, the whole Church could not be said to err.
— from An Essay on Papal Infallibility by John Sinclair