"Yes, I'm growing old; my youth is nearly over, and at thirty I shall be a faded, dreary woman, like so many I see and pity.
— from Work: A Story of Experience by Louisa May Alcott

He said that the majority of those who went to school at Athens became first wise, and then philosophers, after that orators, and as time went on became ordinary kind of people, the more they had to do with learning, so much the more laying aside their pride and high estimate of themselves.
— from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch

He seems to me to have betrayed unconsciously, and so early, that timid despair which leads so many in our unhappy society, who dread cynicism and its corrupting influences, and mistakenly attribute all the mischief to European enlightenment, to return to their ‘native soil,’ as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Slighter degrees, which, like so many other things, are usually designated as "insufficiency of the interni," are more frequently met with and are combined with asthenopia.
— from Clinical Investigations on Squint by C. Schweigger

"My children fed and clothed me too, When I was sick and faint; They came to me, and did with love Supply my every want "But ye refused me, and did mock
— from The Parables of the Saviour The Good Child's Library, Tenth Book by Anonymous

The distance was lessened sixty miles by taking the eilwagen from Wusterhausen to Berlin, and nine days in all were spent upon the road.
— from A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie

The deserted wife, like so many of the Ahu Ahu women, had an ancestor who kept her in touch with current events.
— from Faery Lands of the South Seas by James Norman Hall

154 “When we stop, for rest we shall have to do without light,” suggested Melton.
— from The River of Darkness; Or, Under Africa by William Murray Graydon

Desire with loathing strangely mixed On wild or hateful objects fixed.
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge