Passing on to the second court, a distant sound broke feebly on the silence, and gradually swelling louder, as they advanced, Emily distinguished voices of revelry and laughter, but they were to her far other than sounds of joy.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The way of Fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

This language will be easily understood, if we consider what we formerly said concerning that reason, which is able to oppose our passion; and which we have found to be nothing but a general calm determination of the passions, founded on some distant view or reflection.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume

, 467 Motive meaning of, 202 , 362 , 363 ; and Intention, 202 , 203 , 203 note 1; -s, different views of Right, 204-207 ; and Desire, Green’s view of, 363 note 1; and Disposition, Utilitarian estimate of, 493 , 494 Motives to action, 23 ; as subjects of moral judgment, 362-372 ; as affecting morality of actions, 60-61 , 224 ; regarded as better and worse rather than good and bad , 363-364 ; ‘seductive,’ 364 ; (“Springs of action”)
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

M. de Villefort only replied by offering his arm to his daughter.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

He was supposed to live in Courfeyrac’s room, which was decent, and where a certain number of law-books backed up and completed by several dilapidated volumes of romance, passed as the library required by the regulations.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

At this moment Derick was in the act of pitching his lamp-feeder at the advancing boats, and also his oil-can; perhaps with the double view of retarding his rivals’ way, and at the same time economically accelerating his own by the momentary impetus of the backward toss.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

O those headaches at dawn of day, when at five, or half-past-five in summer, and not much later in the dark seasons, we were compelled to rise, having been perhaps not above four hours in bed—(for we were no go-to-beds with the lamb, though we anticipated the lark ofttimes in her rising—we liked a parting cup at midnight, as all young men did before these effeminate times, and to have our friends about us—we were not constellated under Aquarius, that watery sign, and therefore incapable of Bacchus, cold, washy, bloodless—we were none of your Basilian water-sponges, nor had taken our degrees at Mount Ague—we were right toping Capulets, jolly companions, we and they)—but to have to get up, as we said before, curtailed of half our fair sleep, fasting, with only a dim vista of refreshing Bohea in the distance—to be necessitated to rouse ourselves at the detestable rap of an old hag of a domestic, who seemed to take a diabolical pleasure in her announcement that it was "time to rise;" and whose chappy knuckles we have often yearned to amputate, and string them up at our chamber door, to be a terror to all such unseasonable rest-breakers in future— "Facil" and sweet, as Virgil sings, had been the "descending" of the over-night, balmy the first sinking of the heavy head upon the pillow; but to get up, as he goes on to say, —revocare gradus, superasque evadere ad auras— and to get up moreover to make jokes with malice prepended—there was the "labour," there the "work."
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Charles Lamb

During the day there was a grand procession of thunder-clouds filing along over the northern Catskills, and letting down veils of rain and enveloping them.
— from Riverby by John Burroughs

From the lofty plateau of Raton's Peak the deep, dark valley of Rio Las Animas Perdidas is disclosed; the matchless Spanish Peaks, "Las Cumbres Españolas," lift their heads into the blue sky; Pike's Peak gleams like a monumental shaft in the clouds, and the Snowy Range, for more than two hundred miles, is within the luminous landscape.
— from The Land of Enchantment: From Pike's Peak to the Pacific by Lilian Whiting

He accomplished successfully one of the most difficult voyages on record, in an ocean area notoriously stormy and treacherous.
— from South! The Story of Shackleton's Last Expedition, 1914-1917; Includes both text and audio files by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

Charpentier, Die Suparṇasage , takes a somewhat different view of RV. IV. xxvi.-xxvii., which, however, does not convince me; I rather suspect that RV. IV. xxvi.
— from Hindu Gods And Heroes Studies in the History of the Religion of India by Lionel D. (Lionel David) Barnett

Descenderunt autem angeli, quia prior descenderat Christus, metuentes descendere priusquam Dominus virtutum omnium rerumque præciperet.
— from Primitive Christian Worship Or, The Evidence of Holy Scripture and the Church, Against the Invocation of Saints and Angels, and the Blessed Virgin Mary by James Endell Tyler

In Macbeth III 1 94 the valued file is the file that determines values or ranks.
— from Milton: Minor Poems by John Milton

The little winged conspirators, the automaton as well as the living birds, were of course instantly removed from the Temple; and Simon had the double vexation of receiving a reprimand from the authorities, and then the losing his little merry companions from the prison.
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

These moral and political catastrophes are wholly independent of Catholicity, are in direct violation of religion, and in disobedience to the commands and entreaties of the church.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 11, April, 1870 to September, 1870 by Various