The white star of the traveller's joy, the deep Empurpled rays that hide the smoky stone, The dahlia rooted in Egyptian sleep, The last frail rose alone. {39} Let music whisper from a casement set By them of old, Where the light smell of lavender may yet Rise from the soft loose mould.
— from Poems of To-Day: an Anthology by Various

There are no acts of pardon past In the cold grave to which we haste, But darkness, death, and long despair Reign in eternal silence there.
— from Hymns and Spiritual Songs by Isaac Watts

They have both too much sense to carry religion about with them like a pair of hawkers, crying out 'who'll buy, who'll buy;' neither do they wear long faces, nor make themselves disagreeable by dragging religion into every subject that becomes the topic of conversation.
— from The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

Substantial barriers to growth and development remain, including electricity shortages, the government's continued and inefficient dominance of key sectors, endemic corruption, and the country's high population growth rate (which has declined substantially in recent years).
— from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

I 'range wid a nigger to take me 'cross da riber in er skift to de plantation where dey all was and 'bout fust folkses dat I see is Ella an' her peoples en lots of de famblys from de ole home place back in Tennessee
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"Olivia, my darling," returned I, "every scheme that has been hitherto pursued to compel him to a declaration has been proposed and planned by yourself, nor can you in the least say that I have constrained you.
— from Dalziels' Illustrated Goldsmith by Oliver Goldsmith

At Smolensk it was only suspected that Minsk was in danger; the officers who were present at the loss of Polotsk gave the following details respecting it:— Ever since the battle of the 18th of August, which raised him to the dignity of marshal, Saint Cyr had remained on the Russian bank of the Düna, in possession of Polotsk, and of an entrenched camp in front of its walls.
— from History of the Expedition to Russia Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812 by Ségur, Philippe-Paul, comte de

"I wish, with all my heart, that you were going with us; but I'm afraid Mr. Culpepper is too deeply rooted in English soil to bear transplanting to a foreign clime."
— from In the Dead of Night: A Novel. Volume 3 (of 3) by T. W. (Thomas Wilkinson) Speight

The fact that one's DNA, one's sacrosanct blueprint, was disseminated randomly in ejaculations seemed to him inordinately peculiar; that it was emitted from an instrument of urination which when erect was a pistol of a sadist forcing his pleasure and will onto others a sickening but laughable peculiarity; still it made him so amorous that he could not restrain himself any longer and thus he masturbated and then took a shower.
— from An Apostate: Nawin of Thais by Steven David Justin Sills