I threw myself on my knees, and stooping down, said— “I must kiss the dear reliever of my pains.”
— from The Romance of Lust: A classic Victorian erotic novel by Anonymous

Being formed on different principles these two orders of conception—the logical and the physical—do not coincide, and the attempt to fuse them into one system of demonstrable reality or moral physics is doomed to failure by the very nature of the terms compared.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

This was probably the occasion of a doleful rejoinder of Mr. Peter McDougal's, which became locally a kind of proverbial expression: "No more breakfast in this world for Pete McDoug."
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

The voice from without answered back, “Your leaving me and taking another man has always been a matter of deepest resentment on my part; I have something special to say to you,” and he pounded the door open and came thundering in.
— from Korean Folk Tales: Imps, Ghosts and Faries by Yuk Yi

Up, and a cold morning, by water through bridge without a cloak, and there to Mr. Wren at his chamber at White Hall, the first time of his coming thither this year, the Duchess coming thither tonight, and there he and I did read over my paper that I have with so much labour drawn up about the several answers of the officers of this Office to the Duke of York’s reflections, and did debate a little what advice to give the Duke of York when he comes to town upon it.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

On an incline over which a road wound he saw wild and desperate rushes of men perpetually backward and forward in riotous surges.
— from The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War by Stephen Crane

On either side a double range of massive porcelain pillars supported the roof, which covered this grand sanctuary of art like an immense vitrified jewel.
— from The Goddess of Atvatabar Being the history of the discovery of the interior world and conquest of Atvatabar by William Richard Bradshaw

However, he had no intention of clerking back of a counter, of getting down rolls of muslin, papers of buttons, for women, if it could be avoided.
— from The Happy End by Joseph Hergesheimer

In the new Session—a direct reversal of Mr. Pou’s announcement of two months earlier that the House would not pass the Amendmen
— from The Story of the Woman's Party by Inez Haynes Gillmore

With most of these, it will ever constitute the chief pride and happiness of the author's life, that he is also permitted to boast a considerable degree of intimate friendship; and, in the delightful retreat of Merton Place, surrounded by all who were most dear to the heart of the hero, in consanguinity as well as amity, have many of those valuable anecdotes been obtained, with which the work is so abundantly enriched.
— from The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 by James Harrison

"Will there never be peace, never a tranquil moment to soothe my spirit and erase the bloody stains of destruction recorded on my past?"
— from The Reluctant Weapon by Howard L. Myers

Me mek um tight fer keep da rain out; me pit top on strong fer keep da win' out.'
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris

Gott.), Elementa Juris Civilis Secundum Ordinem Institutionum; Laboulaye, Essai sur les Lois Criminelles des Remains; Long's Articles on Roman Law in Dr. Smith's Dictionary; Maine's Ancient Law; Gaius, Institutionum Commentarii Quatuor; Marezole (Theodore, Professor at Leipsic), Lebruch der Institutionem des Romischen Rechts; Maynz (Charles, Professor of Law at Brussels), Elements du Droit Romain; Ortolan (M., Professor at Paris), Explication Historique des Institutes de l'Empereur Justinien; Phillimore, Introduction to the Study and History of Roman Law; Pothier, Pandectae Justinianae in Novum Ordinem Digestae; Savigny, Geschichte des Rom.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

Besides,—who knew but that when my supply of tobacco and dates ran out, my popularity might not wane?
— from Lodges in the Wilderness by W. C. (William Charles) Scully