Day and night evil thoughts roam about in my head, and feelings which I never knew before have made their home in my soul.
— from The Bet, and other stories by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

There was nothing to study in Dresden, and no education to be gained, but the Sistine Madonna and the Correggios were famous; the theatre and opera were sometimes excellent, and the Elbe was prettier than the Spree.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

The postillion delivered this with so much discretion and natural eloquence, that I could not help decyphering some- 234 thing in his face above his condition, and should have sifted out his history, had not poor Maria taken such full possession of me.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Long have I sat on my loved hill, day and night expecting thee.
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

The light lingered about the lonely child, as if glad of such a playmate, until her mother had drawn almost nigh enough to step into the magic circle too.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

So with these thoughts in his mind, as soon as he came to Sardis he proceeded to send heralds to his several allies to give them notice that by the fifth month from that time they should assemble at Sardis: but the army which he had with him and which had fought with the Persians, an army which consisted of mercenary troops, 94 he let go and disbanded altogether, never expecting that Cyrus, after having contended against him with such even fortune, would after all march upon Sardis.
— from The History of Herodotus — Volume 1 by Herodotus

49. 1 k′ 1 e 0 † 2 c 1 h 0 † 3 b 1 a′ 0 † 4 k d 0 † 5 h′ a 0 † 6 b′ 1 e′ 0 ; 1 k′ e † 4 k d † 6 b′ e′ † 3 b a′ † 5 h′ a † 2 c h ¶ d c 0 † c 1 , i.e. ¶ c 1 d 0 i.e. Donkeys are not easy to swallow.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

And this consists in keeping the divinity within inviolate and intact; victorious over pain and pleasure; free from temerity, free from falsehood, free from hypocrisy; independent of what others do or fail to do; submissive to hap and lot, which come from the same source as we; and, above all, with equanimity awaiting death, as nothing else than a resolution of the elements of which every being compounded.
— from The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus A new rendering based on the Foulis translation of 1742 by Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

Donkeys are not easy to swallow. 50.
— from Symbolic Logic by Lewis Carroll

Atlantick Sisters, and the Spartan Twins, Up to the Tropick Crab: thence down amain By Leo, and the Virgin, and the Scales, As deep as Capricorn; to bring in change Of seasons to each clime; else had the spring Perpetual smiled on earth with vernant flowers, Equal in days and nights, except to those Beyond the polar circles; to them day Had unbenighted shone, while the low sun, To recompense his distance, in their sight Had rounded still the horizon, and not known Or east or west; which had forbid the snow From cold Estotiland, and south as far Beneath Magellan.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

How the Motor Cycle Chums were caught by the lure of the gold and into what difficulties and novel experiences they were led, makes a tale of thrilling interest.
— from The Ocean Wireless Boys and the Lost Liner by John Henry Goldfrap

Aware that the entreaties of a perpetual dictator are nearly equivalent to commands, he reluctantly complied; but in the prologue to the first piece which he acted, he complained bitterly to the audience of the degradation to which he had been subjected—
— from History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Vol. I by John Colin Dunlop

Jeff demanded; and now either the punch had begun to work in Westover's brain, or some other influence of like force and quality.
— from The Landlord at Lion's Head — Complete by William Dean Howells

I grant you the millennium of the Grand Être is still far off; but it is most surely coming, and we can all aid, more or less, that blessed consummation—not by idle wailing, by useless dreams, or by selfish striving after an impossible personal reward, but by duty punctually performed, by self-sacrifice cheerfully undergone, by daily and nightly endeavours to ameliorate the condition of Man. ‘Men perish; Man is imperishable.
— from The New Abelard: A Romance, Volume 3 (of 3) by Robert Williams Buchanan

Kalle had certainly done everything to make it a festive day; there was an abundance of good things to eat and drink, and no end to his comical tricks.
— from Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 01 by Martin Andersen Nexø

None make any change in their dress at night, except that the man takes off the pagri of his turban, retaining only a skull cap.
— from Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume 1 (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

A great Valley must have stretched from west to east, north of this line, along the course of the Frome, which runs through Dorset, and now enters the sea at Poole Harbour, on by Bournemouth, and along the present Solent Channel—a valley still much above sea level, not yet cut down by rivers and the sea—and down the centre of this valley a river must have flowed, which may be called the River Solent.
— from The Geological Story of the Isle of Wight by J. Cecil (John Cecil) Hughes