So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er,—/ The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The defectiveness of this view will be corrected in the next book by means of a truth which is not so immediately certain as that from which we start here; a truth at which we can arrive only by deeper research and more severe abstraction, by the separation of what is different and the union of what is identical.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The duchess remained a moment stupefied; then, suddenly bursting into laughter: “Ah! upon my word,” said she, “it is very droll, and that mad Marie Michon fared better than she expected.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Dr. Reeves and Mr. Skene, following the Annals of Tighernach, decide in favour of 563.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

This quarrel about nothing irritated him, and roused me up; the difference of our natures produced these different results, and my stratagem succeeded because it was impromptu, and could not have been foreseen.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

Quincia my dear is dead, but not alone, For I am dead, and with her I am gone: Sweet smiles, mirth, graces, all with her do rest, And my soul too, for 'tis not in my breast.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

From the opening chapter down to the very close, even while the interlude takes us for a little while to the Paris café where Danton, Robespierre, and Marat sit in angry counsel, even while we are on the sea with the royalist Marquis and Halmalo, the reader is subtly haunted by the great Vendean woods, their profundity, their mystery, their tragic and sinister beauties.
— from Studies in Literature by John Morley

But the fir trees are generally mutilated--their lower branches lopped off; and the tree resents this treatment and often dies, remaining a melancholy stump among the beeches.
— from Old Calabria by Norman Douglas

The late Dr. Robert A. Manwaring, son of the above Christopher Manwaring, was, by both his parents, honored by Rogers descent, his mother being daughter of Dr. Simon Wolcott, of Windsor, who married Lucy Rogers a descendant of James 2 and settled in this place.
— from The Rogerenes: some hitherto unpublished annals belonging to the colonial history of Connecticut by John R. (John Rogers) Bolles

“The package of books was duly received, and must say that we are highly pleased with the same.
— from The Alden Catalogue of Choice Books, May 30, 1889 by John B. (John Berry) Alden

The fluffy, fair hair, soaked and darkened, resembled a mean skein of cotton threads festooned round his bare skull.
— from Typhoon by Joseph Conrad

Mill himself made no direct reply; and Macaulay showed his gratitude for Mill's generosity in regard to the Indian appointment by declining to republish the articles.
— from The English Utilitarians, Volume 2 (of 3) James Mill by Leslie Stephen

Through the defile ran a mountain stream, splashing over and round boulders in its swift fall.
— from Mavericks by William MacLeod Raine