And, all this done, let us again compare these various communications with the known MSS. of the officer.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

The General watch'd them from this hill, They made repeated desperate attempts to burst their environment, Then drew close together, very compact, their flag flying in the middle, But O from the hills how the cannon were thinning and thinning them!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

It seemed curious enough to be standing face to face, as it were, with old Dagobert I., and Clovis and Charlemagne, those vague, colossal heroes, those shadows, those myths of a thousand years ago!
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

The production of systematic unity in all the empirical operations of the understanding is the proper occupation of reason; just as it is the business of the understanding to connect the various content of phenomena by means of conceptions, and subject them to empirical laws.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

But now, when he thought how regularly things went on, from day to day, in the same unvarying round; how youth and beauty died, and ugly griping age lived tottering on; how crafty avarice grew rich, and manly honest hearts were poor and sad; how few they were who tenanted the stately houses, and how many of those who lay in noisome pens, or rose each day and laid them down each night, and lived and died, father and son, mother and child, race upon race, and generation upon generation, without a home to shelter them or the energies of one single man directed to their aid; how, in seeking, not a luxurious and splendid life, but the bare means of a most wretched and inadequate subsistence, there were women and children in that one town, divided into classes, numbered and estimated as regularly as the noble families and folks of great degree, and reared from infancy to drive most criminal and dreadful trades; how ignorance was punished and never taught; how jail-doors gaped, and gallows loomed, for thousands urged towards them by circumstances darkly curtaining their very cradles’ heads, and but for which they might have earned their honest bread and lived in peace; how many died in soul, and had no chance of life; how many who could scarcely go astray, be they vicious as they would, turned haughtily from the crushed and stricken wretch who could scarce do otherwise, and who would have been a greater wonder had he or she done well, than even they had they done ill; how much injustice, misery, and wrong, there was, and yet how the world rolled on, from year to year, alike careless and indifferent, and no man seeking to remedy or redress it; when he thought of all this, and selected from the mass the one slight case on which his thoughts were bent, he felt, indeed, that there was little ground for hope, and little reason why it should not form an atom in the huge aggregate of distress and sorrow, and add one small and unimportant unit to swell the great amount.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Domenico, foreseeing this, had sent his aunt's fly, driven by her son his cousin; and his aunt and her fly lived in Castagneto, the village crouching at the feet of San Salvatore, and therefore, however late the train was, the fly would not dare come home without containing that which it had been sent to fetch.
— from The Enchanted April by Elizabeth Von Arnim

It is only ninety versts and then they can ‘travel very comfortably, third class,’ for a thousand versts!
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

against, contrary to con-trahō, -ere, -trāxī, -trāctus [ com- , together , + trahō , draw ], draw together; of sails, shorten, furl contrōversia, -ae , f. dispute, quarrel con-veniō, -īre, -vēnī, -ventus [ com- , together , + veniō , come ], come together, meet, assemble con-vertō, -ere, -vertī, -versus [ com- , intensive, + vertō , turn ], turn con-vocō, -āre, -āvī, -ātus [ com- , together , + vocō , call ], call together co-orior, -īrī, -ortus sum , dep.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackney’d in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company, Opinion, that did help me to the crown, Had still kept loyal to possession, And left me in reputeless banishment, A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

In fact, it may in a sense be called the very centre of it.”
— from The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle

<>, rispuose, <che tu vuoi conta; ma non tacer, se tu di qua entro eschi, di quel ch'ebbe or cosi` la lingua pronta.
— from La Divina Commedia di Dante: Complete by Dante Alighieri

The young fellows of fashion considered these venerable constables as legitimate game.
— from The Leading Facts of English History by D. H. (David Henry) Montgomery

Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the Power with the Need, Till the Soul that is not man's soul was lent us to lead.
— from Verses 1889-1896 by Rudyard Kipling

Since communicating the voluminous correspondence in regard to Hawaii and the action taken by the Senate and House of Representatives on certain questions submitted to the judgment and wider discretion of Congress the organization of a government in place of the provisional arrangement which followed the deposition of the Queen has been announced, with evidence of its effective operation.
— from A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 8, part 2: Grover Cleveland by Grover Cleveland

Had I so lavish of my presence been, So common-hackney'd in the eyes of men, So stale and cheap to vulgar company, Opinion, that did help me to the crown, Had still kept loyal to possession And left me in reputeless banishment, A fellow of no mark nor likelihood.
— from King Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare

After spending a few hours with him, he went to Chelsea to visit Carlyle, and at the end of a week returned to Manchester to begin the series of lecturing engagements which had been arranged for him.
— from Ralph Waldo Emerson by Oliver Wendell Holmes

The spirit of enterprise and colonization, which seems at first sight so foreign to love of family, is capable of being allied with it; nay, becomes, under certain circumstances, the very condition of it.
— from The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau

The people employed in the representation rivaled in numbers those who constituted the veritable Cortez's army, while the horses came within three of the number that the Spaniard took into Mexico.
— from Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time by Henry Edward Krehbiel

She could think very clearly now, and she could be much more brave because there was something to do.
— from The Belovéd Traitor by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard