This work was well advanced as to preliminaries, but was not sufficiently developed for early publication at the time of Yule's death, and ere it could be completed its place had been taken by a later enterprise.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

He broke down again, endeavouring to bless her!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Poscia ch'io ebbi il mio dottore udito nomar le donne antiche e ' cavalieri, pieta` mi giunse, e fui quasi smarrito.
— from Divina Commedia di Dante: Inferno by Dante Alighieri

The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
— from Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And now he kept thinking and he longed to pitch upon some one significant thought unlike others, which would be a guide to him in life, and he wanted to think out principles of some sort for himself so as to make his life as deep and earnest as he imagined that he felt himself to be.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

And they relate that in a similar way, in the great war in which the Athenians and Lacedæmonians contended with such violent resentment, the famous Pericles, the first man of his country in credit, eloquence, and political genius, observing the Athenians overwhelmed with an excessive alarm during an eclipse of the sun which caused a sudden darkness, told them, what he had learned in the school of Anaxagoras, that these phenomena necessarily happened at precise and regular periods when the body of the moon was interposed between the sun and the earth, and that if they happened not before every new moon, still they could not possibly happen except at the exact time of the new moon.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Like a black Spectre, daily at eventide, glides the Death-tumbril through the variegated throng of things.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

L'internet a vraiment décollé aux Etats-Unis à cause d'un concept révolutionnaire: une langue unique - l'anglais.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

For we commonly use the term ‘moral obligation’ as equivalent to ‘duty’ and expressing what is implied in the verb ‘ought,’ thus suggesting an analogy between this notion and that of legal obligation; and in the case of positive law we cannot refuse to recognise the connexion of ‘obligation’ and ‘punishment’: a law cannot be properly said to be actually established in a society if it is habitually violated with impunity.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

For the most diverse and even antagonistic elements lie quietly side by side in this concept; for example, religious feeling, feeling of sensual pleasure, moral feeling, bodily feeling, as touch, pain, sense of colour, of sounds and their harmonies and discords, feeling of hate, of disgust, of self-satisfaction, of honour, of disgrace, of right, of wrong, sense of truth, æsthetic feeling, feeling of power, weakness, health, friendship, love, &c. &c.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

Both Esther and Sir Donald arose early.
— from Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 by Levi Jackson Hamilton

THE THIRD RECORD —Yes, I remember, and you shall hear all about it before I describe an evening at the Settlement, but it doesn't amount to much.—I told you how cross and over-bearing Tuck was at the Astoria tower, and of the mean way in which he restricted my observations.
— from On the Lightship by Herman Knickerbocker Vielé

My firm conviction is that they are very well worth seeing indeed, and an attempt shall be made to justify it by describing that which I saw and that which, no doubt, anybody else may see upon applying at this hotel, the name of which has escaped memory.
— from Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by James Edmund Vincent

They go on to say, that as a very large sum must be raised on the security of Irish property, and expended upon labour, during the continuance of the distress occasioned by the failure of the potato crop, the expenditure of this sum upon unproductive works will increase the disproportion already existing between labour and capital in the country; which disproportion they look on as the main cause of the want of employment for the people, and of the miserable wages they are sustained by.
— from The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines by O'Rourke, John, Canon

True, affliction at last may dull them, as it dulls all else that we took from Nature when she equipped us for life.
— from What Will He Do with It? — Volume 11 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

He says that, when he tells her decidedly that he wont do this, that she pays no more attention to this refusal than as if he hadn't made it; but quietly returns to the same point of disputation the next day, and every day, and every month, and all through the year, with a terrible and feline pertinacity.
— from Ginger-Snaps by Fanny Fern

Jack was to sleep with Davy, and except for Mary's rifle, all the weapons in camp were stowed in that tent.
— from Jack Chanty: A Story of Athabasca by Hulbert Footner

Soon after the Reformation this legend became the Subject of a most animated controversy "on one hand the Centuriators of Magdeburg exposed its weak points with unsparing severity, on the other a Jesuit father, Crombach devoted an entire folio volume to the vindication of the narrative.
— from All about Battersea by Henry S. Simmonds

We thought it a good idea, for we're starving, although we're perfectly happy because we're in Egypt, and because it's such a quaint train, so different and Eastern.
— from It Happened in Egypt by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson