It seemed to me that while I had been addressing him, he carefully revolved every statement that I made; fully comprehended the meaning; could not gainsay the irresistible conclusions; but, at the same time, some paramount consideration prevailed with him to reply as he did.
— from Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall-Street by Herman Melville

He carried his victorious arms northward: defeated the Britons in every encounter, pierced into the forests and the mountains of Caledonia, reduced every state to subjection in the southern parts of the island, and chased before him all the men of fiercer and more intractable spirits, who deemed war and death itself less intolerable than servitude under the victors.
— from The Germany and the Agricola of Tacitus by Cornelius Tacitus

It is there afore God with all His Holy continually received, ever speeding [the help of] our needs; and when we shall receive our bliss it shall be given us for a degree of joy, with endless worshipful thanking from [2] Him.
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

utram mālīs vidē; etsī cōnsilium quod cēpī rēctum esse sciō , T. Hau.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

I could remember every stupid thing I'd ever said or done, recall them with picture-perfect clarity.
— from Little Brother by Cory Doctorow

A picture sent to Siena, by some supposed the Giardiniera, now at Paris, but more probably the Lanti Madonna, was among these, as well as the Madonna painted for the Dei family: an accurate critic, Rumohr, even supposes that the celebrated entombment done for Perugia, which is now in the Borghese palace in Rome, was completed from Raphael’s designs by Ridolfo Ghirlandajo.
— from The Gallery of Portraits: with Memoirs. Volume 6 (of 7) by Arthur Thomas Malkin

He carried his victorious arms northwards, defeated the Britons in every encounter, pierced into the inaccessible forests and mountains of Caledonia, reduced every state to subjection in the southern part of the island, and chased before him all the men of fiercer and more intractable spirits, who deemed war and death itself less intolerable than servitude under the victors.
— from The History of England, Volume I From the Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Revolution in 1688 by David Hume

221 At that close range every shot told and not a wolf escaped.
— from The Radio Boys Rescue the Lost Alaska Expedition by Gerald Breckenridge

This pencil consists of between thirty and forty bristles, which are connected with a cartilaginous rod exactly similar to that of the primary bundle.
— from A Year at the Shore by Philip Henry Gosse

If that unfortunate youth hadn't been making love to you when he should have been attending to the bees, the chances are they would never have taken it into their heads to swarm upon that accursed arch, and consequently…" There was nothing which Captain Runacles enjoyed so thoroughly as to discover the connection between effects and their causes.
— from The Blue Pavilions by Arthur Quiller-Couch