Is yonder wave the sun's eternal bed?— Soon shall the orient with new lustre burn, And Spring shall soon her vital influence shed, Again attune the grove, again adorn the mead!
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

Every body seems so cross and unhappy.
— from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself by Harriet A. (Harriet Ann) Jacobs

And as the whole amount of modification will have been effected by slight successive steps, we need not wonder at discovering in such parts or organs, a certain degree of fundamental resemblance, retained by the strong principle of inheritance.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

Telling him of her love, Vera was enchantingly beautiful; she spoke eloquently and passionately, but he felt neither pleasure nor gladness, as he would have liked to; he felt nothing but compassion for Vera, pity and regret that a good girl should be distressed on his account.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

It is very extensive, but shallow, so that the difficulty of constructing the Claudian emissary, can scarcely be compared to that encountered in a similar work for lowering the level of the waters in the Alban lake, completed A.U.C. 359.]
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

A religionist may be an enthusiast, and imagine he sees what has no reality: he may know his narrative to be false, and yet persevere in it, with the best intentions in the world, for the sake of promoting so holy a cause: or even where this delusion has not place, vanity, excited by so strong a temptation, operates on him more powerfully than on the rest of mankind in any other circumstances; and self-interest with equal force.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

Now, if in Great Britain, where the House of Commons is elected for seven years; where so great a proportion of the members are elected by so small a proportion of the people; where the electors are so corrupted by the representatives, and the representatives so corrupted by the Crown, the representative body can possess a power to make appropriations to the army for an indefinite term, without desiring, or without daring, to extend the term beyond a single year, ought not suspicion herself to blush, in pretending that the representatives of the United States, elected FREELY by the WHOLE BODY of the people, every SECOND YEAR, cannot be safely intrusted with the discretion over such appropriations, expressly limited to the short period of TWO YEARS?
— from The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton

It is known that the bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry, are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good, and that no one ought to be allowed, through piecework or otherwise, to earn by superior skill or industry more than others can without it.
— from On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

In religion / What damnéd error but some sober brow /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

Her voice was as gentle as ever, but she spoke so decidedly that the young man was obliged to tell her everything.
— from Beautiful Joe: An Autobiography by Marshall Saunders

But immediately she caught the drift of a [Pg 13] dialogue between two women at a neighbouring table, where the play had stopped, that had beaten faintly upon her ears before she sank out of sight; and in a moment she was conscious of nothing else.
— from The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842 by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

Also to set ones teeth an edge by some soure tast.
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Tears gushed from her eyes; but she shook them out of her eyelashes, so that they fell scattering about her like pearls.
— from Henry VIII and His Court: A Historical Novel by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Even by such slight means as her saying, 'Riversley, Harry,' and my kiss of her fingers when a question of money was in debate, did we burst aside the vestiges of mutual strangeness, and recognize one another, but with an added warmth of love.
— from The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 8 by George Meredith

The Future 341 ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE Carvings in Ivory and in Stone of Cavern Walls made by the Hunters of the Middle Stone Age 3 Early Babylonian Signs, Showing Their Pictorial Origin 27 Villa of an Egyptian Noble 34 The Pyramids of Gizeh 36 Assyrians Flaying Prisoners Alive 44 Two Cretan Vases 52 Insurgent Captives Brought Before Darius 58
— from Invention: The Master-key to Progress by Bradley A. (Bradley Allen) Fiske

The minarets, slender, round towers, are not attached to the main edifices, but stand separate and distinct in the courts surrounding the mosques, with some space intervening between mosque and minaret.
— from A Trip to the Orient: The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Robert Urie Jacob

Her weakness became excessive; but she suffered no pain, and possessed her memory, understanding, and ideas till within the last eight days of her existence, when a lethargic insensibility took which terminated in death, without effort or struggle, on the 24th of September.
— from The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 by Horace Walpole