How is it with my darling when From the deep tangles of the glen Float carols of each bird elate With rapture singing to his mate?
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

After this conversation, the mind of St. Aubert appeared to be much more at ease; but, exhausted by the effort of speaking, he sunk into a kind of doze, and Emily continued to watch and weep beside him, till a gentle tap at the chamber-door roused her.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Moreover, the manner in which the coast-line in Bering's original map is extended beyond East Cape, has only served to strengthen the opinion.
— from Vitus Bering: the Discoverer of Bering Strait by Peter Lauridsen

He was indeed wounded in the face with a javelin: two of his teeth were shattered with a stone; yet, in the midst of tumult and dismay, he reproached the infidels with the murder of a prophet; and blessed the friendly hand that stanched his blood, and conveyed him to a place of safety Seventy martyrs died for the sins of the people; they fell, said the apostle, in pairs, each brother embracing his lifeless companion; their bodies were mangled by the inhuman females of Mecca; and the wife of Abu Sophian tasted the entrails of Hamza, the uncle of Mahomet.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

There are many laws of nature, which we can only know by means of experience; but conformity to law in the connexion of appearances, i.e., in nature in general, we cannot discover by any experience, because experience itself requires laws which are a priori at the basis of its possibility.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

Though embittered by every species of misery, my existence was still dear to me, and I dreaded to lose it.
— from The Monk: A Romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis

My Heart's In The Highlands The Whistle—A Ballad To Mary In Heaven Epistle To Dr. Blacklock The Five Carlins Election Ballad For Westerha' Prologue Spoken At The Theatre Of Dumfries 1790 Sketch—New Year's Day [1790] Scots' Prologue For Mr. Sutherland Lines To A Gentleman, Elegy On Willie Nicol's Mare The Gowden Locks Of Anna Postscript Song—I Murder Hate Gudewife, Count The Lawin Election Ballad Elegy On Captain Matthew Henderson The Epitaph Verses On Captain Grose Tam O' Shanter On The Birth Of A Posthumous Child Elegy On The Late Miss Burnet Of Monboddo 1791 Lament Of Mary, Queen Of Scots, On The Approach Of Spring There'll Never Be Peace Till Jamie Comes Hame Song—Out Over The Forth The Banks O' Doon—First Version The Banks O' Doon—Second Version The Banks O' Doon—Third Version Lament For James, Earl Of Glencairn Lines Sent To Sir John Whiteford, Bart Craigieburn Wood Epigram On Miss Davies The Charms Of Lovely Davies What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi' An Auld Man The Posie On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His Chain Poem On Pastoral Poetry Verses On The Destruction Of The Woods
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Mille, mille annis, et manget et bibat, Et seignet et tuat! APOTHICARIUS.
— from The Imaginary Invalid by Molière

The Eleventh Equity The Twelfth, Equall Use Of Things Common The Thirteenth, Of Lot The Fourteenth, Of Primogeniture, And First Seising The Fifteenth, Of Mediators The Sixteenth, Of Submission To Arbitrement The Seventeenth, No Man Is His Own Judge The Eighteenth, No Man To Be Judge, That Has In Him Cause Of Partiality The Nineteenth, Of Witnesse A Rule, By Which The Laws Of Nature May Easily Be Examined The Lawes Of Nature Oblige In Conscience Alwayes, The Laws Of Nature Are Eternal; And
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Beyond these are only impressions, sensations, feelings, impulses, emotions, or whatever else one may term what is outside the spirit, not assimilated by man, postulated for the convenience of exposition, but effectively inexistent, if existence be also a spiritual fact.
— from Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Benedetto Croce

The only alternative left, then, is that either both exist or the consciousness exists alone.
— from Philosophical Studies by G. E. (George Edward) Moore

@Chile:Transnational Issues Disputes-international: short section of the southeastern boundary with Argentina is indefinite; Bolivia has wanted a sovereign corridor to the South Pacific Ocean since the Atacama area was lost to Chile in 1884; dispute with Bolivia over Rio Lauca water rights; territorial claim in Antarctica (Chilean Antarctic Territory) partially overlaps Argentine and British claims Illicit drugs: a minor transshipment country for cocaine destined for the US and Europe; booming economy has made it more attractive to traffickers seeking to launder drug profits ______________________________________________________________________
— from The 1998 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

They come here from all parts of the country, and indeed from all parts of the world, in the hope of reaping a rich harvest, and the majority end by eking out a miserable existence in a manner which even the police who watch them so closely are sometimes unable to understand.
— from Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City by James Dabney McCabe

What a tremendous advantage they had had in shooting from among the bushes on the bank, where they could not be seen, over us who had to show up over a parapet every time we looked for an enemy, and show up, moreover, just in the very place where every Boer expected us to, and was watching.
— from The Defence of Duffer's Drift by Ernest Dunlop Swinton

(1) (1) For a more detailed account of this Temple-festival, see Adam's Peak to Elephanta by E. Carpenter, ch.
— from Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning by Edward Carpenter

From that time Ancona remained in subjection to the Church until the wars of the French Directory, when the Roman States were occupied by Napoleon; and subsequently, incorporated by him with the rest of Central and Northern Italy into the Regno d'Italia , under the viceroyalty of Eugène Beauharnais, enjoyed a brief season of unaccustomed prosperity.
— from The Englishwoman in Italy Impressions of life in the Roman states and Sardinia, during a ten years' residence by Gretton, G., Mrs.

According to Malory, a certain Sir Patrise lies buried in Westminster, and this knight came to his untoward end by eating an apple, whereupon “suddenly he brast (burst)”:
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Brer Rabbit 'low dat he ain't feelin' dat a-way hisse'f, 'kaze he des bin en had er bait er w'ite muscadimes, en den he tuck'n smack he mouf en lick he chops right front er Brer Fox.
— from Nights With Uncle Remus by Joel Chandler Harris