Ambition is therefore always extremely great as long as a democratic revolution lasts, and it will remain so for some time after the revolution is consummated.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

Some Spanish church music which she found there called forth all her powers: all was happiness, delight, rapture, Lady Maud in a frenzy of friendship, Mr Mountchesney convinced that the country in August might be delightful, and Lady Joan almost gay because Alfred was pleased.
— from Sybil, Or, The Two Nations by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

The bluffs of the river rise to the hight of from 2 to 300 feet and in most places nearly perpendicular; they are formed of remarkable white sandstone which is sufficiently soft to give way readily to the impression of water; two or thre thin horizontal stratas of white free-stone, on which the rains or water make no impression, lie imbeded in these clifts of soft stone near the upper part of them; the earth on the top of these Clifts is a dark rich loam, which forming a graduly ascending plain extends back from 1/2 a mile to a mile where the hills commence and rise abruptly to a hight of about 300 feet more.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

5. Xen. de Rep. Laced.
— from On the Sublime by active 1st century Longinus

Her presence was as lofty as her state; Her beauty of that overpowering kind, Whose force description only would abate: I 'd rather leave it much to your own mind, Than lessen it by what I could relate Of forms and features; it would strike you blind
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

patiently, with indulgence, Ac. 26.3. Μακρός , ά, όν, ( μῆκος ) long; of space, far, distant, remote, Lu.
— from A Greek-English Lexicon to the New Testament by William Greenfield

The sunlight breaking suddenly on his sight turned the sky and clouds into a fantastic world of sombre masses with lakelike spaces of dark rosy light.
— from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce

Best Edition, small post 8vo, cloth extra, gilt edges, 3 s. 6 d. (Rose Library, 2 s. ) —— Work and Beginning Again.
— from Albania: A Narrative of Recent Travel by E. F. (Edward Frederick) Knight

[Pg 337] Vniuersitati x li. Hec gratia est concessa condicionata; condicio est quod incipiat infra annum; alia condicio quod det Regentibus liberatam consuetam.
— from The Grey Friars in Oxford by A. G. (Andrew George) Little

I was much struck at Baltimore, to find in what harmony people of different religions lived together, and I have since had no reason to alter my opinion.
— from Hulme's Journal, 1818-19; Flower's Letters from Lexington and the Illinois, 1819; Flower's Letters from the Illinois, 1820-21; and Woods's Two Years' Residence, 1820-21 by John Woods

A degenerate race like the present, experiences no such sensation.
— from The Physiology of Taste; Or, Transcendental Gastronomy by Brillat-Savarin