An estate, however, at the distance of one lot eastward from Yonge Street, in Whitchurch, is yet in the actual occupation of a direct descendant of o
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

Is he not always infinitely removed from the end, and is not the duration of our life equally removed from eternity, even if it lasts ten years longer?
— from Pascal's Pensées by Blaise Pascal

Together did we learn everything; together did we learn to ascend beyond ourselves to ourselves, and to smile uncloudedly:— —Uncloudedly to smile down out of luminous eyes and out of miles of distance, when under us constraint and purpose and guilt steam like rain.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In many of the dairying districts owners of large estates have voluntarily sub-let a great part of their land, and set up butter factories, to which their tenants bring their milk.
— from On the Wallaby Through Victoria by Elinor Mordaunt

In the evening I endeavoured to improve the death of our late esteemed brother Penney, who died of yellow fever, aged thirty-five years.
— from The Baptist Magazine, Vol. 27, 1835 by Various

You can't live on air, you know, my dear, or on love either, especially as this last is nonexistent.
— from In Queer Street by Fergus Hume

And the reflection of his throne, glowing through and through, lay bright on all the suns.— –Suddenly, nearer at hand, molten cloudlets of light, nearer mists, which had flown upward out of dew, take their stations, during their silvering, low down before the suns, and the silvery gleam of heaven comes on apace with scattered dark fleeces.—Victor cannot comprehend the supernatural kindling, and starts up, enchanted, to his feet.... and lo, our good neighbor and kinsman, the moon, the sixth grand division of our little earth, had silently, and without the morning's cry of joy, entered beside the triumphal gate of the sun into the night of her mother earth with her half-day .
— from Hesperus; or, Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days: A Biography. Vol. II. by Jean Paul

At a recent meeting of the S.P.R. it was proposed by Sir A. Conan Doyle , of Oliver Lodge, Ether, Surrey, "that the Board of Education be asked, in the interests of scientific truth, to suspend the teaching of Hamlet until the scenes in which the Ghost appears shall have been emended in the light of modern research by a committee of psychical experts appointed for the purpose.
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-01-21 by Various

I think it was the sudden shock of this great discovery, and naught else, that arrested our feet in time and saved us from madly rushing on the doom of our lost enemy.
— from Sir Ludar A Story of the Days of the Great Queen Bess by Talbot Baines Reed