Love exalts as much as glory does, and I love you more than you are great.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Since this is true, personality can be developed and its latent powers brought out by careful cultivation.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

‘I want to do as I like, young man,’ he added after a short silence; ‘to go to bed when I like, get up when I like, come in when I like, go out when I like—to be asked no questions and be surrounded by no spies.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

If you do not draw an imaginary line from star to star it does not suggest a cross—nor anything in particular.
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

We passed the night at the old house, which, freed from the presence of the Heeps, seemed purged of a disease; and I lay in my old room, like a shipwrecked wanderer come home.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Hitherto she had steadily borne up against the pressure of her malady, and had not betaken herself finally to bed; but on the closing in of the evening of my arrival at the house, she succumbed (as her brother told me at night with inexpressible agitation) to the prostrating power of the destroyer; and I learned that the glimpse I had obtained of her person would thus probably be the last I should obtain—that the lady, at least while living, would be seen by me no more.
— from The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe

His face had become frozen, as it were, in a very curious look at Darnay: an intent look, deepening into a frown of dislike and distrust, not even unmixed with fear.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

Every line is an idea conveying either the beauty and playfulness of the fawn, or the artlessness of the maiden, or her love, or her admiration, or her grief, or the fragrance and warmth and appropriateness of the little nest-like bed of lilies and roses which the fawn devoured as it lay upon them, and could scarcely be distinguished from them by the once happy little damsel who went to seek her pet with an arch and rosy smile on her face.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I will only tell my aunt that we are going out for an hour, and be ready as soon as you are.' Oliver needed no prompting to despatch, and in little more than five minutes they were on their way to Craven Street.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

When we reached the end of our voyage, the landing was equally wearisome and dirty; and I lost, to my great annoyance, a part of Lord Byron’s works.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

This they did, and I left Cædwalla surrounded by the power of Wessex, recognised as their lawful lord, and successor to the line of Cerdic."
— from Cædwalla; or, The Saxons in the Isle of Wight: A Tale by Frank Cadogan Cowper

As the organ music died away I looked upward and saw where a bird was wildly flying to and fro, through the vast spaces beneath its lofty roof, in the vain effort to find some outlet of escape.
— from Shakespeare's England by William Winter

In death as in life she counted only as a part of her husband.
— from Taboo and Genetics A Study of the Biological, Sociological and Psychological Foundation of the Family by Phyllis Mary Blanchard

The passenger-train, shrinking in size by swift perceptible degrees as it lost itself in the darkness, soon was gone.
— from The Turn of the Balance by Brand Whitlock

The distinction between war, as thus duly declared, and "international Lynch-law" is too evident to need comment.
— from Elements of Military Art and Science Or, Course Of Instruction In Strategy, Fortification, Tactics Of Battles, &C.; Embracing The Duties Of Staff, Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, And Engineers; Adapted To The Use Of Volunteers And Militia; Third Edition; With Critical Notes On The Mexican And Crimean Wars. by H. W. (Henry Wager) Halleck

For example, xiv. is practically identical with liii., except that in the first Jehovah is always used as the designation of the Deity, and in liii.
— from The Origin and Permanent Value of the Old Testament by Charles Foster Kent