He rarely caressed her, and she was beginning perceptibly to pine away; her little face was becoming drawn, her large eyes growing dim.
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

vii of Collecçao de noticias para a historia et geographia das nações ultramarinas , and its translation by Stanley, A description of the coasts of East Africa and Malabar (Hakluyt Society publications, London, 1866).
— from The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 33, 1519-1522 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the Catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century by Antonio Pigafetta

This is a very delicate and important step, which may lead to great successes, or to equally great disasters if not applied with sagacity, and is used only to extricate an army from an embarrassing position.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

Sentences containing the thought of another, introduced by a relative pronoun or by causal, temporal, or other conjunctive particles, take the subjunctive, though not appended to the accusative with the infinitive ( 1725 ): as, 422 numquis, quod bonus vir esset, grātiās dīs ēgit umquam?
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

That which Æschylus the thinker had to tell us here, but which as a poet he only allows us to surmise by his symbolic picture, the youthful Goethe succeeded [Pg 76] in disclosing to us in the daring words of his Prometheus:— "Hier sitz' ich, forme Menschen Nach meinem Bilde, Ein Geschlecht, das mir gleich sei, Zu leiden, zu weinen, Zu geniessen und zu freuen sich, Und dein nicht zu achten, Wie ich!"
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Lindsay Lippincott Knight Errant Davidson Lippincott Knighthood in Germ and Flower Cox Last of the Great Scouts Wetmore Lessons on Manners Julia M. Dewey Hinds, Noble & Co. Levels of Living Henry F. Cope Revell Life of Kit Carson Ellis Grosset & Dunlap Little Jarvis Seawell Loyalty McClure Revell Co. Making the Most of Ourselves Calvin Dill Wilson McClurg Co. Men of Iron Pyle Moral Muscle Frederick A. Atkins Revell Co.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

There reigned a king of name revered, To country and to town endeared, Great Daśaratha, good and sage, Well read in Scripture's holy page: [pg 013] Upon his kingdom's weal intent, Mighty and brave and provident; The pride of old Ikshváku's seed For lofty thought and righteous deed.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He couldn't bear to think of himself living on any other spot than this, where he knew the sound of every gate door, and felt that the shape and color of every roof and weather-stain and broken hillock was good, because his growing senses had been fed on them.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Schrecklich blicket ein Gott, da wo Sterbliche weinen —Dreadful looks a God, where mortals weep.
— 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.

Their land looked towards Italy and Sicily yet more directly than Macedonia looked towards Asia; and perhaps Alexander, certainly Pyrrhos, sought to found beyond the Hadriatic a Western Greek dominion to balance the Eastern Greek dominion which the Macedonians had founded beyond the Ægæan.
— from The Chief Periods of European History Six lectures read in the University of Oxford in Trinity term, 1885 by Edward A. (Edward Augustus) Freeman

Grouped around each banner will be found the Breton men and women from a particular section, each group differently clad from those of other sections, but all gay with brilliant colouring.
— from Rambles in Brittany by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

Would these clear eyes grow dim?
— from The Created Legend by Fyodor Sologub

There was a yell of exultation from the upward-climbing Eastern cave men as they saw the most dangerous of their immediate enemies go down, but, before the echoes had come back, the sound was lost in that which came from the height above them.
— from The Story of Ab: A Tale of the Time of the Cave Man by Stanley Waterloo

449–64 in Das Jahr 1913, Ein Gesamtbild der Kulturentwicklung , hg.
— from The Theory of Environment An Outline of the History of the Idea of Milieu, and Its Present Status, part 1 by Armin Hajman Koller

iv. 185-193): ‘ Le progrès total finalement accompli ne peut être sans doute que le résultat général de l’accumulation spontanée des divers progrès partiels successivement réalisés depuis l’origine de la civilisation, en vertu de la marche successivement lente et graduelle de la nature humaine; ’ so that Condorcet’s picture presents a standing miracle, ‘ où l’on s’est même interdit d’abord la ressource vulgaire de la Providence. ’
— from Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3), Essay 3: Condorcet by John Morley

17 Prof. Scott Elliot at the end of his book, Prehistoric Man (p. 381) writes thus: "It seems true that almost every race of man is not only capable of believing in a Supreme God but, so far as the evidence goes, did reverence one God who was often also thought of as the Creator of the Sky or of the World....
— from Notes on Islam by Hussain, Ahmed, Sir

Adeline adheres to traditional Negro beliefs, and concluded her recountal of folklore with the dark prediction: "Every gloomy day brings death.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

Had but the shadow of the Thunderer's bird, Flashing athwart my spirit, made of me A swift-betraying vision's Ganymede, Yet to have greatly dreamed precludes low ends Great days have ever such a morning-red, On such a base great futures are built up, And aspiration, though not put in act, Comes back to ask its plighted troth again, Still watches round its grave the unlaid ghost Of a dead virtue, and makes other hopes, Save that implacable one, seem thin and bleak As shadows of bare trees upon the snow, Bound freezing there by the unpitying moon.
— from Poems of James Russell Lowell With biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole by James Russell Lowell

A combination, and a form, indeed / Where every god did seem to set his seal / To give the world assurance of a man.
— 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.