But what ow I to his commands above Who hates me, and hath hither thrust me down Into this gloom of Tartarus profound, To sit in hateful Office here confin’d, Inhabitant of Heav’n, and heav’nlie-born, Here in perpetual agonie and pain, With terrors and with clamors compasst round Of mine own brood, that on my bowels feed: Thou art my Father, thou my Author, thou My being gav’st me; whom should I obey But thee, whom follow?
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

On the whole, tendons are to muscular fibres, and bones are to tendons, combining recipients of mechanical energies.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It does not circle round one mountain, but rises far in the East, beyond the Isles of Japan, and sets far, far away in the West, beyond the islands of England.
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

MYRRHINE You can rely on me.
— from Lysistrata by Aristophanes

The river Cephisus rises on Mount Parnassus, and flows near Delphi.
— from The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII by Ovid

Thus is the common reason of man compelled to go out of its sphere, and to take a step into the field of a practical philosophy, not to satisfy any speculative want (which never occurs to it as long as it is content to be mere sound reason), but even on practical grounds, in order to attain in it information and clear instruction respecting the source of its principle, and the correct determination of it in opposition to the maxims which are based on wants and inclinations, so that it may escape from the perplexity of opposite claims and not run the risk of losing all genuine moral principles through the equivocation into which it easily falls.
— from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Immanuel Kant

Nearby, stand the handsome "palaces" of the fazendeiros ; but not so close that the coffee princes and their households will be disturbed by the almost constant rumble of machinery and the voices of the workers.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

Thereto Punch Costello roared out mainly Etienne chanson but he loudly bid them, lo, wisdom hath built herself a house, this vast majestic longstablished vault, the crystal palace of the Creator, all in applepie order, a penny for him who finds the pea.
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

Notions that fall in with the common Reason of Mankind, that are conformable to the Sense of all Ages and all Nations, not to mention their Tendency for promoting the Happiness of Societies, or of particular Persons, are exploded as Errors and Prejudices; and Schemes erected in their stead that are altogether monstrous and irrational, and require the most extravagant Credulity to embrace them.
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

Among free wild animals, the cruel abuse or murder of children by their parents, or by other adults of the tribe, is unknown; but in all the "civilized" races of men infanticide and child murder are frightfully common crimes.
— from The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals: A Book of Personal Observations by William T. (William Temple) Hornaday

All of these we take to be made of something we call matter: a thing which no analysis can help us to conceive; to whose incredible properties no familiarity can reconcile our minds.
— from Across the Plains, with Other Memories and Essays by Robert Louis Stevenson

I fancied I could read, fixed in its eyes, a certain recognition of my having distracted its prey.
— from Many-Storied Mountains: The Life of Glacier National Park by Greg Beaumont

We all of us have the same interests, and you know very well that you can rely on me.'
— from Money (L'Argent) by Émile Zola

Where else have you been?” “Why are you so anxious to have a complete record of my doings?”
— from Whoso Findeth a Wife by William Le Queux

Suddenly Nilovna came running opposite me.
— from Mother by Maksim Gorky

Certain Rules of Municipal Law necessitated or interdicted 27 23.
— from International Law. A Treatise. Volume 1 (of 2) Peace. Second Edition by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim

At times one might have fancied one’s self on a great river in the interior of a continent, while a few minutes later, in the openings between the islands, the eye could range over miles of water to the mysterious recesses of the yet unexplored Cordillera of Patagonia, with occasional glimpses of snowy peaks at least twice the height of the summits near at hand.
— from Notes of a naturalist in South America by John Ball