The same day she had learned, at different times, the words: hOUSE, WEED, DUST, SWING, MOLASSES, FAST, SLOW, MAPLE-SUGAR and COUNTER, and she had not forgotten one of these last.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

We must learn anew in order that at last, perhaps very late in the day, we may be able to do something more: feel anew.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The samurai carried arms, fought at their lords’ command, were students and literati, and among them developed that proud, loyal, and elevated code of morality known as “Búshido,” which has done so much for the Japanese people.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

I could not stay behind you: my desire, More sharp than filed steel, did spur me forth; And not all love to see you- though
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

We must learn anew in order that at last, perhaps very late in the day, we may be able to do something more: feel anew.”
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The extreme softness of the ground, from the excessive rains of the few preceding days, no doubt saved me from a severe injury and protracted lameness.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

, The dog sniffed my feet as if I were his master.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

If death, said my father, reasoning with himself, is nothing but the separation of the soul from the body;—and if it is true that people can walk about and do their business without brains,—then certes the soul does not inhabit there.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

But then a noise did scare me from the tomb, And she, too desperate, would not go with me,
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

After a fruitless struggle to get aboard a North-Western train at Chalk Farm—the engines of the trains that had loaded in the goods yard there ploughed through shrieking people, and a dozen stalwart men fought to keep the crowd from crushing the driver against his furnace—my brother emerged upon the Chalk Farm road, dodged across through a hurrying swarm of vehicles, and had the luck to be foremost in the sack of a cycle shop.
— from The War of the Worlds by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

In the simplicity of my soul, I fancied that the dame, so much flattered as she needs must have been, by the confidence I began to repose in her, would now mend her ways, and abstain from her larcenies.
— from Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

Brussels was liked by Charlotte, and she calls it a beautiful city; and she liked the country about it, though it differed so much from her own hilly Haworth.
— from The Brontë Family, with special reference to Patrick Branwell Brontë. Vol. 2 of 2 by Francis A. Leyland

Now, on the verge of sleep, seeing that picture pass before me—the ineffable sadness of the lonely hunter in the wilderness, the vision, the unutterable joy, and the fearful end, I thought (for thought now came to me) of my own case—my loneliness, for I, too, was lonely, not because I was there by myself on that promontory, but because a whole ocean and the impassable ocean of death separated me from my own people.
— from The Land's End: A Naturalist's Impressions In West Cornwall, Illustrated by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

It is milk: such, with strawberries, which ripen on the Apennines many months in continuance, and some other berries of sharp and grateful flavour, has been my only diet since my first residence
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

"The Duke showed me from the door himself," he said.
— from The Betrayal by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Lines passing through places having the same mean summer or winter temperature are neither parallel to the isothermal, the geothermal lines, nor to one another, and they differ still more from the parallels of latitude.
— from On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences by Mary Somerville

When we gits real sick, dey sends medicine frum de big house.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"I am so proud," she was saying, "that at last, after you have done so much for me, I can do a little thing for you.
— from Tommy and Grizel by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie