After conquering England they began to regard it as home and speedily developed a new sense of nationality.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

the Musquetors has been So troublesom day and night Since our arrival in this Vally that we are tormented very much by them and Cant write except under our Bears.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

But there is one more argument to be alleged, less obviously insufficient than those which we have reviewed, and demanding a new sort of reply.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

she asked of me, with a direct and naive simplicity of tone and manner, pleasing, if child-like.
— from Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Brontë

Of Delapré Abbey, Northampton. Son of Edward Bouverie.
— from The Waterloo Roll Call With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes by Charles Dalton

If you once got stuck in that black mud you’d be sucked right down and never seen or heard tell of again till the day of judgment, like Adam Palmer’s cow.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

But now I only hear Its melancholy, long, withdrawing roar, Retreating, to the breath Of the night-wind, down the vast edges drear And naked shingles of the world.”
— from Browning and His Century by Helen Archibald Clarke

But, while he was writing his despatch, a new source of vexation sprang up in Paris—the Spanish Ambassador, Señor Olozaga, announced to the Duc de Gramont the fact that Prince Antoine, on behalf of his son, had notified at Madrid the withdrawal of his pretensions to the crown.
— from The Campaign of Sedan: The Downfall of the Second Empire, August-September 1870 by George Hooper

"What do you want to do?" asked Ninian, standing over her.
— from The Lonely Stronghold by Reynolds, Baillie, Mrs.

He has not only the vision, but the faculty divine, and no secret of his art is hid from him.
— from Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews

These offences, however, had vanished from Sir Everard's recollection in the heat of his resentment; and had Lawyer Clippurse, for whom his groom was dispatched express, arrived but an hour earlier, he might have had the benefit of drawing a new settlement of the lordship and manor of Waverley-Honour, with all its dependencies.
— from Waverley; Or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since by Walter Scott

There is also a rhythm in his exalted moments, a delicate and noble swing of the clauses, not easy to transfer: as in the Eighth Dog-Post-Day, the paragraph commencing, "Wehe gröszere Wellen auf mich zu, Morgenluft!"
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

"Has some prodigious philosopher devised a new system of calculus satisfactory to all for determining the exact and comparative value of all sorts of service, whether by brawn or brain, by hand or voice, by ear or eye?
— from Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887 by Edward Bellamy

Odysseus was exceeding wroth at the fall of his comrade, and stepping forward he flung his spear, and smote Democoon, a natural son of Priam, in the temple.
— from Stories from the Iliad by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell

There is no day and no sunshine, only one long night.
— from The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 56, December 2, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Various