It may indeed be said that no man of any depth of soul has made his prolonged existence the touchstone of his enthusiasms.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

It was well for our adventurer that his good fortune so seasonably interposed; for that same day, in the afternoon, he was favoured with a billet from the jeweller's wife, couched in the same tender style she had formerly used, and importing an earnest desire of seeing him next day at the wonted rendezvous.
— from The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom — Complete by T. (Tobias) Smollett

The highest form of individual freedom, of sovereignty, would, according to this, in all probability be found not five feet away from its opposite—that is to say, where the danger of slavery hangs over life, like a hundred swords of Damocles.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

How he solicits heaven, Himself best knows; but strangely-visited people, All swol'n and ulcerous, pitiful to the eye, The mere despair of surgery, he cures,
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Texas, for instance, has declared that "it does not recognize the right of a Mason to demit or separate himself from the lodge in which he was made, or may afterwards be admitted, except for the purpose of joining another lodge, or when he may be about to remove without the jurisdiction of the lodge of which he may be a member."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

Such a one alone seems to me to be a just, a courageous, and a prudent man; and when any one has arrived at these dispositions, or shall hereafter arrive at them, he is the man that ought to be by all honored with the testimony of a virtuous or courageous man: for as to those that go out to war with hopes of success, and that they shall return safe, supposing they should have performed some glorious action, I think those do not do well who call these valiant men, as so many historians and other writers who treat of them are wont to do, although I confess those do justly deserve some commendation also; but those only may be styled courageous and bold in great undertakings, and despisers of adversities, who imitate Saul: for as for those that do not know what the event of war will be as to themselves, and though they do not faint in it, but deliver themselves up to uncertain futurity, and are tossed this way and that way, this is not so very eminent an instance of a generous mind, although they happen to perform many great exploits; but when men's minds expect no good event, but they know beforehand they must die, and that they must undergo that death in the battle also, after this neither to be affrighted, nor to be astonished at the terrible fate that is coming, but to go directly upon it, when they know it beforehand, this it is that I esteem the character of a man truly courageous.
— from Antiquities of the Jews by Flavius Josephus

He either had obey'd my fond desire, Or seen his mother pierced with grief expire.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

" Scott's mouth was rapidly drying out so he ordered a Pepsi.
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

He drives only six horses.
— from Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The amount of evil which the desecration of Sunday has sown can hardly be conceived.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 10, October, 1869 to March, 1870 by Various

of 149 , earl of, see David of Scotland & Hastings & 297 n. {370} Hutchinson, Col., 59 , 264 , 265 Huxley, T. H., 251 I ngulph, abbot of Crowland, 13 ,
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

Fog in the morning breaking into a wonderful pearl day of summer haze.
— from The Forgotten Threshold: A Journal of Arthur Middleton by Edward J. (Edward Joseph) O'Brien

In the departments of science, history, biography, and philology, it is especially fine.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

" Also, "the disinfection of such hides in this country or storage of the same in general order warehouses will not be permitted, for the reason that the passage of diseased hides through the country or their storage with other goods will tend to the dissemination of cattle disease in the United States."
— from The Practical Book of Oriental Rugs by G. Griffin (George Griffin) Lewis

With her, there was at least no doubt as to the thing to be done,—no hesitation as to the desirability of securing Harry Clavering for the Burton faction.
— from The Claverings by Anthony Trollope