I then died away myself in an agony of delight.
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Some say that, as the whole plot was dark and mysterious, it was natural that the god's altar should be underground.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

"For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence; but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it."
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Such is hope, Heaven’s own gift to struggling mortals; pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things, both good and bad; as universal as death, and more infectious than disease!
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

Hence also the attempt of 1902 to minimize the insurrection of 1901–2, in Batangas and other provinces of southern Luzon, conducted by what Governor Luke E. Wright, in a speech delivered at Memphis in the latter part of 1902, called “the die-in-the-last-ditch contingent.”
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

The boy, whenever he was not doing anything, moped in the house.
— from The Secret Agent: A Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad

Thou Gloomy December Ance mair I hail thee, thou gloomy December!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

There are now about twenty-four of these machines in the Cazengo and Golungo districts, all manufactured in the United States and giving satisfactory results.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

I looked first at my lifeless clay there upon the floor of the cave and then down at myself in utter bewilderment; for there I lay clothed, and yet here I stood but naked as at the minute of my birth.
— from A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs

The poet did not require much urging, and began at once reciting over again the stanzas which were afterwards so much admired in the "Banner and Oracle,"—the first verse being, as the readers of that paper will remember, "She moves in splendor, like the ray That flashes from unclouded skies, And all the charms of night and day Are mingled in her hair and eyes."
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

He appeared before the deputy at Millefont, in a habit and posture suitable to his present fortune; and after acknowledging his offence in the most humble terms, he was committed to custody by Mountjoy, who intended to bring him over captive into England, to be disposed of at the queen’s pleasure.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I. by David Hume

In these last days, a man is known by the patent medicine promoter to whom he sends his testimonial photograph.
— from Oklahoma Sunshine by Freeman Edwin Miller

At last an indescribable significance expressed itself in the official group at the door; a man in a high hat and dresscoat hurried out; a footman hurried to meet him; they spoke inaudibly together.
— from Their Silver Wedding Journey — Volume 2 by William Dean Howells

The same reasoning will prove, that the indivisible moments of time must be filled with some real object or existence, whose succession forms the duration, and makes it be conceivable by the mind.
— from Philosophical Works, v. 1 (of 4) Including All the Essays, and Exhibiting the More Important Alterations and Corrections in the Successive Editions Published by the Author by David Hume

The distress he is represented to have suffered, the remembrance of his own disobedience as the cause of it, and the miraculous escape he is supposed to have had, were sufficient, one would conceive, to have impressed him with sympathy and benevolence in the execution of his mission; but, instead of this, he enters the city with denunciation and malediction in his mouth, crying, "Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
— from The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): The Age of Reason by Thomas Paine

They'll be doing as much in a week as a man with two good eyes.
— from El Diablo by Brayton Norton

But it is still, nevertheless, as isolated thoughts, as inspirations, so to call them, penetrating what seemed hopelessly dark, summarising what seemed hopelessly confused, sticking fast in men's memories, floating lightly, or going far, that they have left so deep a mark in literature.
— from Miscellaneous Studies; a series of essays by Walter Pater

Foreigners are not a little amazed when they hear of brewers, distillers, and men in similar departments of trade, held forth as persons of considerable consequence.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

" "Indeed it did, and mamma is ever so much better too.
— from Randy of the River; Or, The Adventures of a Young Deckhand by Alger, Horatio, Jr.