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— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

[43] His secret has now been discovered, and he must either renounce his love, or, as he is at length free to do,
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

I resolved to do my best to drive away her melancholy, even though I suspected that it arose from love of the Florentine.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

the strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my enemy and persecutor, may still be in being.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The host sat down, after having made each of them a respectful bow, which meant that he was ready to tell them all they wished to know concerning Luigi Vampa.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Taut' oun eis heautas helkousin hai artêriai pantachothen, hai men eis to derma kathêkousai ton exôthen aera; plêsion te gar autais houtos esti kai kouphotatos en tois malista; tôn d' allôn hê men epi ton trachêlon ek tês kardias aniousa kai hê kata rhachin, êdê de kai hosai toutôn engys ex autês malista tês kardias; hosai de kai tês kardias porrhôterô kai tou dermatos, helkein tautais anankaion ek tôn phlebôn to kouphotaton tou haimatos; hôste kai tôn eis tên gastera te kai
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen

The strength I relied on is gone; I feel that I shall soon die, and he, my enemy and persecutor, may still be in being.
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

All the “rot” they contained about ventilation, and how to go to bed, and how to get up, and what to eat, and what to drink, and how much exercise to take, and what frame of mind to keep one’s self in, and what sort of clothing to wear, was all gospel to her, and she never observed that her health-journals of the current month customarily upset everything they had recommended the month before.
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

At times she cried a good deal; and her manner, even when speaking on indifferent things, had a mournful tenderness about it, which was deepened whenever her looks fell on Frederick, and she thought of his rapidly approaching departure.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

The one devoted all his mental energies to the realisation of beauty: the other strove to ascertain truth.
— from The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tommaso Campanella; Now for the First Time Translated into Rhymed English by Michelangelo Buonarroti

In his defence he enumerated no less than a hundred and fifty-two persons, including his wife and daughter, as his mortal enemies, and he gave the reason in each case which amply justified their enmity.
— from A History of the Inquisition of Spain; vol. 3 by Henry Charles Lea

Then his exultation would suddenly drop as his mental excitement produced its effect of inevitable physical fatigue.
— from The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett

“The book is a fierce onslaught on the French Academy, but exhibits the best traits of its accomplished author, a man who is never dull and has most extraordinary powers of description and character drawing, his stories always offering not puppets, but men and women moving before one’s eyes.”— Christian Intelligencer , N. Y. City.
— from The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. (John Berry) Alden

Perceiving a mighty disorder (as he might expect), he was going to step out of his bed to know what was the matter, which, if he had done, he would have been irrecoverably lost; but, in the instant 247 of this moving, a flash of lightning came and showed him the precipice, whereupon he lay still till people came and took him down.
— from Things to be Remembered in Daily Life With Personal Experiences and Recollections by John Timbs

One boat could make a graph of the bottom in depths and heights, mapping even hummocks and hills underwater.
— from Creatures of the Abyss by Murray Leinster

I had met up with a few things in the dark by now, and I had learned, if a difficulty arose, how much easier it is to cope with it even in failing twilight than by the gleam of lantern or headlight; for the latter never illumine more than a limited spot.
— from Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove

Then the cab was at the door, and her miserable eyes were looking out on the sunshiny street.
— from The Quiver, 1/1900 by Anonymous