Angels, Uriel, Anachiel, and the other Five; Pentagon of Rejuvenescence; Power that destroyed Original Sin; Earth, Heaven, and thou Outer Limbo, which men name Hell!
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Knox wanted no pulling down of stone edifices; he wanted leprosy and darkness to be thrown out of the lives of men.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

Mars’s increasing age and the impossibility of obtaining a double success through her, literary as well as financial, and about the necessity of securing the services of Madame Dorval or some equally handsome and celebrated actress, makes me determined to sever our connection as speedily as possible, no matter where I may have to go, or under what pecuniary conditions.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

This division of the continent consists of a tableland, or series of tablelands, of considerable elevation and great diversity of surface, exhibiting hollows filled with great lakes, and terraces over which the rivers break in falls and rapids, as they find their way to the low-lying coast tracts.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

Thus determined, ere he was yet twelve days old, she enclosed him in a canvas knapsack, which being adjusted to her neck, fell down upon her back, and balanced the cargo that rested on her bosom.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

I utterly reject and disapprove of Sir Ernest Heavywether’s insinuations against my brother.
— from The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

From Germany the desire of spiritual emancipation had spread abroad, and before p. 16
— from Palissy the Huguenot Potter: A True Tale by C. L. (Cecilia Lucy) Brightwell

Lord Byron used to declare that a dose of salts exhilarated him more than wine.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

It is a work to which men must devote a good part of their lives and must have constant practice in order to maintain speed, and the duty of standing eight hours a day in front of a case and boxing letters by the thousand, year in and year out, must sometimes be closely akin to drudgery.
— from The Postal System of the United States and the New York General Post Office by Thomas C. Jefferies

The hymns of the Reformation were like a trumpet call, proclaiming to all the world that the day of spiritual emancipation had come.
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

If any one holds the mistaken idea—and it is one that is very generally held—that the perfect sex union can be attained by no finer phase of [Pg 193] emotion than that expressed in procreation; and that in order to develop the highest quality of sex-love, he must eschew all other phases of manifestation, and concentrate the forces of his being in the direction of sexual expression, he will meet with dire defeat.
— from Sex--The Unknown Quantity: The Spiritual Function of Sex by Alexander J. (Alexander James) McIvor-Tyndall

I feel ez oncommon ez ef he war a deer, or suthin', ez hev got no salvation in him.
— from The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains by Mary Noailles Murfree