Provoking daemons all restraint remove, And stir within me ev'ry source of love, I hear thee, view thee, gaze o'er all thy charms, And round thy phantoms glue my clasping arms.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

A man of strong imagination might almost go wild with the intensity of his own reflections; and do not let it surprise you, that even one like me, brought up among the technicalities of declarations and replications, rebutters and surrebutters, and in nowise given to the illusions of the senses, should find himself roused, and irresistibly hurried back to the time when the shapeless and confused mass around him formed one of the most magnificent cities in the world; when a large and busy population was hurrying through its streets, intent upon the same pleasures and the same business that engage men now; that he should, in imagination, see before him St. Paul preaching to the Ephesians, shaking their faith in the gods of their fathers, gods made with their own hands; and the noise and confusion, and the people rushing tumultuously up the very steps where he sat; that he should almost hear their cry ringing in his ears, "Great is Diana of the Ephesians;" and then that he should turn from this scene of former glory and eternal ruin to his own far-distant land; a land that the wisest of the Ephesians never dreamed of; where the wild man was striving with the wild beast when the whole world rang with the greatness of the Ephesian name; and which bids fair to be growing greater and greater when the last vestige of Ephesus shall be gone and its very site unknown.
— from Incidents of Travel in Greece, Turkey, Russia, and Poland, Vol. 1 (of 2) by John L. Stephens

Dismal and Rattleton retreated a step or two, as did Elsie Bellwood.
— from Frank Merriwell's Reward by Burt L. Standish

230 Provoking demons all restraint remove, And stir within me every source of love.
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope

The majority of the classes were not yet assembled, when one day, a rumour rose, and spreading, ran from mouth to mouth.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

Behind her, the dumb currents of wonder, disapproval, and resentment ran a stealthy course.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

I was down at Romahapa recently and saw some rabbits at the edge of the bush, and among a dozen of them there were some with white, buff, and black.
— from Wild Life in New Zealand. Part I. Mammalia. New Zealand Board of Science and Art. Manual No. 2. by G. M. (George Malcolm) Thomson

Miss Hubbard talked plenteously—about balls and theatres and Mansion House dinners, about Rotten Row, and St. James's; and although of all these Thomas knew very little, yet being quick and sympathetic, he was able to satisfy the lady sufficiently to keep her going.
— from Guild Court: A London Story by George MacDonald