There was the black veil swathed round Mr. Hooper's forehead and concealing every feature above his placid mouth, on which, at times, they could perceive the glimmering of a melancholy smile.
— from Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The argument of this Lecture, although opposed to the doctrine that a man acts or exerts force at his peril, is by no means opposed to the doctrine that he does certain particular acts at his peril.
— from The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes

And here is another extract from a Hannibal paper, of date twenty days ago: Miss Becca Blankenship died at the home of William Dickason, 408 Rock Street, at 2.30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, aged 72 years.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

And whenever man rejoices it is always in the same way: he rejoices as an artist, his power is his joy, he enjoys falsehood as his power.... II.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

The worst that a prince may expect from a hostile people is to be abandoned by them; but from hostile nobles he has not only to fear abandonment, but also that they will rise against him; for they, being in these affairs more far-seeing and astute, always come forward in time to save themselves, and to obtain favours from him whom they expect to prevail.
— from The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli

In the joy of these moments, Emily forgot all her past sufferings, and Valancourt seemed to have forgotten, that any person but Emily existed; while Henri was a silent and astonished spectator of the scene.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

“'Sancta Maria!'” ejaculated Father Ambrose, “how prompt to ire are these unhallowed laymen!—But
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

and so on, with every fresh accoutrement he produced, to which there seemed really no end; so the Mole drew his arm through Toad's, led him out into the open air, shoved him into a wicker chair, and made him tell him all his adventures from beginning to end, which Toad was only too willing to do.
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

] By shifting his camp and taking circuitous routes, he prevents the enemy from anticipating his purpose.
— from The Art of War by active 6th century B.C. Sunzi

Was it emotion, or excessive fatigue after her protracted efforts?
— from The Tremendous Event by Maurice Leblanc

May. {422} [ Extracts from a Hasty Pudding Poem. ]
— from James Russell Lowell, A Biography; vol 2/2 by Horace Elisha Scudder

He had been so confident of destroying Dalzell's entire force and his plans had been so well laid, that to have them miscarry through treachery, aroused his utmost fury.
— from At War with Pontiac; Or, The Totem of the Bear: A Tale of Redcoat and Redskin by Kirk Munroe

There is a man above at a high loophole, the topmost cave of a warehouse which you can see has been exposed to commerce and the elements for ages; he pulls in a bale pendulous from the cable of a derrick.
— from London River by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

If a private gentleman's income be sunk irretrievably for ever from a hundred pounds to fifty, and that he hath no other method to supply the deficiency, I desire to know, my Lord, whether such a person hath any other course to take than to sink half his expenses in every article of economy, to save himself from ruin and the gaol.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish by Jonathan Swift

She leaned over the young man, gazed earnestly, fixedly at his pale, cold face, which she almost touched, then imprinted a rapid kiss upon De Guiche’s left hand, who, trembling as if an electric shock had passed through him, awoke a second time, opened his large eyes, incapable of recognition, and again fell into a state of complete insensibility.
— from Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas

His readings of the early fathers and his pessimistic temperamental bent contributed to this truly morose judgment of his mother's sex.
— from Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker

I could enter from a hidden place in the barn, and could get into the barn through the tunnel from the hotel, which connected with the whole tunnel system.
— from Track's End Being the Narrative of Judson Pitcher's Strange Winter Spent There as Told by Himself and Edited by Hayden Carruth Including an Accurate Account of His Numerous Adventures, and the Facts Concerning His Several Surprising Escapes from Death Now First Printed in Full by Hayden Carruth

Not that the Missouri Act may not have been repugnant to the Constitution, for no court had ever passed upon it; but it was enacted for a holy purpose, was venerable in age, was consecrated in the hearts of the people by the unsurpassed eloquence of the patriots of a previous generation, and having the authority of law, of reason, and of covenant, it had till then preserved the Union, as its authors designed it should; and, being in truth a sacred thing, it was not a proper subject for the "ruthless" interference of mere politicians, like those who now devoted it to destruction.
— from The Papers and Writings of Abraham Lincoln, Complete by Abraham Lincoln