A cloud-white crown of pearl she dight, All raimented in snowy white That loosely flew (her zone in sight, Clasped with one blinding diamond bright), Her wide eyes fixed on Camelot, Though the squally eastwind keenly Blew, with folded arms serenely By the water stood the queenly Lady of Shalott.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

This is why, as is well known, one is so careful to get a man first to hope for happiness before announcing it, then to suggest the prospect of it, then little by little make it known, until gradually all is known to him; every portion of the revelation loses the strength of its effect because it is anticipated by a demand, and room is still left for more.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

His ancestors, therefore, though dead, are respected, in some measure, on account of their riches, and consequently without any kind of expectation.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

Varvara Petrovna began again, of course, to be treated with extreme deference and respect in society, but she took little advantage of it and went out rarely.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Word derivations are rich in suggestiveness.
— from The Art of Public Speaking by J. Berg (Joseph Berg) Esenwein

man, in all departments; or, rather, capable of being so, soon as they realize it, and can bring themselves to give up toys and fictions, and launch forth, as men do, amid real, independent, stormy life.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

As my researches are deep, and remote, I shall sometimes take the liberty of repeating what has preceded; that the truths which I maintain may more readily be perceived.
— from A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. by Jacob Bryant

Martin opened it with a premonition of disaster, and read it standing at the open door when he had received it from the postman.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

As the clay is compressed the water is squeezed out of it, and this the mould must take up, or the clay would never dry and retain its shape.
— from The Story of Porcelain by Sara Ware Bassett

During a residence in Scotland and England in 1862 and 1863, he wrote in English “A Norseman’s View of Britain and the British,” published 1863.
— from Tent life with English Gipsies in Norway by Hubert (Solicitor) Smith

The Amazon laughed disdainfully, and rejoined: "I slashed Olaf's face with the point of my sword, that was my answer to him."
— from The Iron Arrow Head or The Buckler Maiden: A Tale of the Northman Invasion by Eugène Sue

The big boys, were in their boyish way, gentlemen, and deferred to Bee more or less—which set a good example to the younger ones; but she was enveloped in a torrent of talk, fun, games and jest, which raged round her from before she got up in the morning till at least the twilight, when the nursery children got tired, and the big boys having exhausted every method of amusement during the day, began to feel the burden of nothing to do, and retired into short-lived attempts at reading, or games of beggar-my-neighbour, or any other simple mode of possible recreation—descending to the level of imaginary football with an old hat through the corridor before it was time to go to bed.
— from The Sorceress (complete) by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

The occurrence of feast days at regular intervals so that a special gratification of the appetite is looked forward to has been declared by most physicians who have considered the subject to be an excellent thing for health.
— from Religion And Health by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

As he seized her hand and wrung it, Cleer crying the while with delight and relief, it struck him all at once, for the very first time, he had done no good by coming, save to give her companionship.
— from Michael's Crag by Grant Allen

As her life became more absorbed in devotion and religious interests, she was conscious of the danger of neglecting earthly duties and sympathies.
— from The Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Augustus J. C. (Augustus John Cuthbert) Hare

“1. Tufa : A substance freely used by the Romans wherever obtainable, and always considered to mark their work as certainly as if dated and recorded in some historical document.
— from Lighthouses and Lightships A Descriptive and Historical Account of Their Mode of Construction and Organization by W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport) Adams