L. S. passing under the Clifts for Several miles, this Creek I Call Roloje a name I learned last night in my Sleep.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

The reason is obvious, why such complex ideas cannot receive any new idea, without changing the name, which distinguishes the mode.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

"This was once a Holy Cross. Relics are not in my creed; but I fear you at moments—far more than you need fear me at present; and to lessen my fear, put your hand upon that stone hand, and swear that you will never tempt me—by your charms or ways.
— from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy

Hence Physico-theology is a misunderstood physical Teleology, only serviceable as a preparation (propaedeutic) for Theology; and it is only adequate to this design by the aid of a foreign principle on which it can rely, and not in itself, as its name would intimate.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

"You are irritated against my noble friend," Mr. Wenham calmly resumed; "and now, in the name of common sense and justice, tell me why?" "WHY?" cried Rawdon in surprise.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

One can read all night in the open air without it,” said someone.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The Greek writers and some of our own countrymen have stated the coast of Germany to be 2500 miles in extent, while Agrippa, comprising Rhætia and Noricum in his estimate, makes the length to be 686 2900 miles, and the breadth 148 2901 .
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

My first and last concealments from the reader are those which caution renders absolutely necessary in this portion of the narrative.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

A commissionnaire remains all night in a little lodge at the foot of the stairs, and is in the habit of making coffee at his spirit-lamp for any of the officials who may be working over time.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

In the early part of the thirteenth century monasticism, which had waned somewhat during the preceding two centuries, received a new impetus and inspiration from the organization of new orders known as brethren or “Friars.”
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

'It is an inadequate and a selfish consolation, but it is a sensible one, to think that we share only in the common ruin, and not in the guilt of having left us exposed to the natural and necessary consequences of administration without ability or virtue.'
— from Lord Chatham, His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Philip Primrose, Earl of

During the last year he had brought himself into a state of calm resolve, and now it seemed that three words had been enough to undo all that difficult work, and cast him back into the wretched fluctuations of a longing which he recognized as simply perturbing and hopeless.
— from Daniel Deronda by George Eliot

In the distance the feathery woods made a purple fringe between the earth and sky, while in the foreground a crinkled rail fence ran irregularly along the side of the country road, and near it stood a splotch of red and black, the only marked color in the whole landscape.
— from Harper's Young People, January 11, 1881 An Illustrated Monthly by Various

Which lesson taught by nature, and commanded of God, if these men had followed (as they minded nothing lesse in the fier of their furie) they would haue béene content with a competent reuenge, and not in such outragious maner with fier and sword haue afflicted one another, nor [Page 637] (which is more than tigerlike crueltie) haue ministred occasion to posterities to reuenge wrongs giuen and taken of their ancestors.
— from Holinshed Chronicles: England, Scotland, and Ireland. Volume 1, Complete by William Harrison

He could remain all night in the Calabozo.
— from The White Chief: A Legend of Northern Mexico by Mayne Reid

In the Christian religion a new idea was introduced.
— from The Essentials of Spirituality by Felix Adler

And they, entering the shallow of the river, and sometimes, when there was occasion for swimming, putting their shields under them like canoes, reached a neighbouring island, and having landed, killed every one they found on it, men and women, without distinction of age, like so many sheep.
— from The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens by Ammianus Marcellinus

And peering round into her face, so sweet and breathless, into her eyes, so dark and dancing, he felt he could run all night if he had her there to run beside him through the dark.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy