Now when Daedalus fled to Athens, Minos, contrary to the decree, pursued him in long war galleys, and being driven to Sicily by a storm, died there.
— from Plutarch's Lives, Volume 1 (of 4) by Plutarch

It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Though I hope that this number is an exaggeration, it shows that the evil is great; and that we must not lose any time in trying to open the eyes of the deluded people he is leading to perdition.
— from Fifty Years in the Church of Rome by Charles Paschal Telesphore Chiniquy

From this view it appears that our commercial differences with France and Great Britain have been placed in a train of amicable arrangement on conditions fair and honorable in both instances to each party; that our finances are in a very productive state, our revenue being at present fully competent to all the demands upon it; that our military force is well organized in all its branches and capable of rendering the most important service in case of emergency that its number will admit of; that due progress has been made, under existing appropriations, in the construction of fortifications and in the operations of the Ordnance Department; that due progress has in like manner been made in the construction of ships of war; that our Navy is in the best condition, felt and respected in every sea in which it is employed for the protection of our commerce; that our manufactures have augmented in amount and improved in quality; that great progress has been made in the settlement of accounts and in the recovery of the balances due by individuals, and that the utmost economy is secured and observed in every Department of the Administration.
— from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents

When Agnes was three years old, she said one day: "Papa, how I love you!"
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, January 1878, No. 3 by Various

But a gloomier hour at length arrived; even Divine patience has its limits; and the last dread crime of Zion could only be expiated in her ruin.
— from The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Books of the Bible, Volume 15 (of 32) The Preacher's Complete Homiletic Commentary on the Book of the Prophet Isaiah, Volume I by Alfred Tucker

It is shameful, some think, to disturb the blissful ignorance of the man with the hoe, for when the gleam of intelligence shines in his eye and he is aroused to the knowledge of his degrading position, he is likely to rebel in the most healthy but brutal manner, so much
— from An Anarchist Woman by Hutchins Hapgood

Luther has disappeared; perhaps he is lost for ever.
— from History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume 3 by J. H. (Jean Henri) Merle d'Aubigné

"Dear Papa, how I love you!
— from Bolax, Imp or Angel—Which? by Josephine Culpeper