i soffi e l' ira; Ma con fiato piu placido e più molle Per le compagne libere poi spira.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

But the speed comes to its end, the engagement loses its meaning and the hungry heart clamours for food, till at last she comes to the lowly reaper reaping his harvest in the sun.
— from Nationalism by Rabindranath Tagore

In view of the manifold variety of requisites for making each sex fulfil its earthly mission, the standard to be adopted in measuring its relative position must be of a composite character; or, to borrow from economic language, it must be a multiple standard.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

Consequently as the unity of law in a combination, which we cognise as contingent in itself, although in conformity with a 24 necessary design (a need) of Understanding, is represented as the purposiveness of Objects (here of nature); so must the Judgement, which in respect of things under possible (not yet discovered) empirical laws is merely reflection, think of nature in respect of the latter according to a principle of purposiveness for our cognitive faculty, which then is expressed in the above maxims of the Judgement.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

and she laying herself prone on the platform and showing only her head at the opening, said, weeping, 'Assuredly, Rinieri, if I gave thee an ill night, thou hast well avenged thyself of me, for that, albeit it is July, I have thought to freeze this night, naked as I am, more by token that I have so sore bewept both the trick I put upon thee and mine own folly in believing thee that it is a wonder I have any eyes left in my head.
— from The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio by Giovanni Boccaccio

For-why to every lovere I me excuse, That of no sentement I this endyte, But out of Latin in my tonge it wryte.
— from Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer

So far as these divisions persist and others are added to them, each leaves its mark upon the educational system, until the scheme of education, taken as a whole, is a deposit of various purposes and procedures.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

Finally, ye know sufficiently well that it cannot be of any consequence if YE just carry your point; ye know that hitherto no philosopher has carried his point, and that there might be a more laudable truthfulness in every little interrogative mark which you place after your special words and favourite doctrines (and occasionally after yourselves) than in all the solemn pantomime and trumping games before accusers and law-courts!
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“Emeralds, green as an English lawn in May after a shower, Kitty.
— from The Drums of Jeopardy by Harold MacGrath

Others with subtle hands may pluck the strings, Making even Love in music audible, And earth one glory.
— from Young Adventure: A Book of Poems by Stephen Vincent Benét

Our initial epitaph is taken from Longnor churchyard, Staffordshire, and it tells the story of an extended and eventful life:— In memory of William Billinge , who was Born in a Corn Field at Fawfield head, in this Parish, in the year 1679.
— from Curious Epitaphs, Collected from the Graveyards of Great Britain and Ireland. by William Andrews

"It seems to me," he once remarked, "that our only chance of escape lies in making a dash to the south.
— from Captured at Tripoli: A Tale of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Many whom impunity was making indifferent are roused by these executions to consider what is the nature of the heresy which attracts them, and to take care not to end their earthly lives in misery and lose their future happiness.
— from Outspoken Essays by William Ralph Inge

O fainting heart, anew,” “Mute are the pleading lips of Him,” “Thine agony, O Lord, is o’er,” “A voice, a heavenly voice I hear,” “Heavenly Light, benignly beaming,” “Father of lights, eternal Lord,” “In my quiet contemplation,” “Jerusalem, lift up thy voice,” “Jesus, Lord and precious Saviour,” “O blessed is the man who stays,” “O let the children come to Me,” “Strike up, O harp and psaltery,” “Watch, my soul and pray,” and “Again Thy glorious sun doth rise.”
— from The Story of Our Hymns by Ernest Edwin Ryden

When the canals which connected it with the open sea happened to become obstructed, the sheet of water subsided from evaporation, leaving in many places merely an expanse of shifting mud, often concealed under the sand which the wind brought up from the desert.
— from History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 4 (of 12) by G. (Gaston) Maspero

Believe me, Miss Champion, more than once, when physical attraction has been strong, and I have been tempted in the worship of the outward loveliness to disregard or forget the essentials,—the things which are unseen but eternal,—then, all unconscious of exercising any such influence, old Margery's clear eyes look into mine, old Margery's mittened hand seems to rest upon my coat sleeve, and the voice which has guided me from infancy, says, in gentle astonishment: `Is this your choice, Master Garthie, to fill my dear lady's place?'
— from The Rosary by Florence L. (Florence Louisa) Barclay