The only thing that our minds can seize is the effect produced by it, and that which charms, ravishes, and makes me in love, I call beauty.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Marius, thoughtfully, and with his eyes diked on the ceiling, repeated almost mechanically: “My mother?—” At that moment, he felt Enjolras’ hand on his shoulder.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

“There was a certain rumour——” “A most malicious and utterly untrue one,” interrupted Alfred Inglethorp in an agitated voice.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

I haven't said anything about the imperative need of a race of giant bards in the future, to hold up high to eyes of land and race the eternal antiseptic models, and to dauntlessly confront greed, injustice, and all forms of that wiliness and tyranny whose roots never die—(my opinion is, that after all the rest is advanced, that is what first-class poets are for; as, to their days and occasions, the Hebrew lyrists, Roman Juvenal, and doubtless the old singers of India, and the British Druids)—to counteract dangers, immensest ones, already looming in America—measureless corruption in politics—what we call religion, a mere mask of wax or lace;—for ensemble , that most cankerous, offensive of all earth's shows—a vast and varied community, prosperous and fat with wealth of money and products and business ventures—plenty of mere intellectuality too—and then utterly without the sound, prevailing, moral and esthetic health-action beyond all the money and mere intellect of the world.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

Talia cum rex aliquis meditator & molitur serio, omnem regnandi curam & animum ilico abjicit, ac proinde imperium in subditos amittit, ut dominus servi pro derelicto habiti dominium.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

34 In Russia similar beings, called Rusalkas, are much more formidable.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

“The nurse would come running and Mrs. Medlock would come running and they would be sure you had gone crazy and they’d send for the doctor,” she said.
— from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

a needle), a name given in the Alps to the needle-like points or tops Page 68 [68] of granite, gneiss, quartz, and other crystalline rocks and mountain masses; also applied to sharp-pointed masses of ice on glaciers and elsewhere.—It is also the name given to a peculiarly-shaped French mountain in Isère, 6500 feet high.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Another Gnostic sect, the Carpocratians, followers of Carpocrates of Alexandria and his son Epiphanus--who died from his debaucheries and was venerated as a god 115 --likewise regarded all written laws, Christian or Mosaic, with contempt and recognized only the γνῶσις or knowledge given to the great men of every nation--Plato and Pythagoras, Moses and Christ--which "frees one from all that the vulgar call religion" and "makes man equal to God."
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

No woman can respect a man much less love him, who places her, her work, her life, her home, her world under constant embarrassment by a scant and niggardly provision.
— from Questionable Amusements and Worthy Substitutes by J. M. Judy

Asahel Curtis Part of Spray Park George Caesar Climbing the séracs on Winthrop Glacier Dr. F. A. Scott Ice Pinnacles on the Carbon A. W. Archer Among the Ice Bridges of Carbon Glacier Asahel Curtis Building Tacoma's electric power plant on the Nisqually (3) George V. Caesar Hydro-electric plant at Electron Cutting canal to divert White River to Lake Tapps Mystic Lake, in Moraine Park Asahel Curtis Glacier Table on Winthrop Glacier Asahel Curtis Carbon River and Mother Mountains
— from The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier' by John H. (John Harvey) Williams

Earliest I can remember about my master was when he come to the slave settlement where we live and get out of the buggy and show a preacher all around the place.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration

This worthy lady was astonished beyond measure at the recital; it seemed so strange to her, that a gentleman of Mr. Munden's birth, fortune, and education, should ever entertain the sordid design of obliging his wife to convert to the family uses what had been settled on her for her own private expences, that she could not have given credit to it from any other mouth than that of the weeping sufferer: his killing of the squirrel also, though a trifle in itself, she could not help thinking denoted a most cruel, revengeful, and mean mind.
— from The History of Miss Betsy Thoughtless by Eliza Fowler Haywood

There was little time for soliloquies of to go, or not to go ; within the quarter-hour, Captain Ruiz and Majors MacNamara and Logan would be in readiness for the final count-down.
— from Tight Squeeze by Dean Charles Ing

It met in January, 1659, and was found to contain many concealed Royalists, and many more stiff republicans of the old Presbyterian type, who objected on principle to the protectorship.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman