O das Leben ist ein langer, langer Seufzer 15 vor
— 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.

The elder ladies' wrinkles curl'd much crisper As they beheld; the younger cast some leers On one another, and each lovely lisper Smiled as she talk'd the matter o'er; but tears Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye Of all the standing army who stood by.
— from Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

Thus the latter was so far harmonised with experience, and ceased to stand abashed, before popular wisdom, which long before had spoken the words of truth in the Spanish proverb: Lo que entra con el capillo, sale con la mortaja (that which comes in [Pg 118] with the child's cap, goes out with the winding-sheet); or: Lo que en la leche se mama, en la mortaja se derrama (what is imbibed with the milk, is poured out again in the winding-sheet).
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

Eliphas Lévi, La Science des Esprits , pp.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

Never was air clearer or sea calmer, nor could there be air sweeter than that in the mystic mountain-stillness holding the perfume of millions of tiny blossoms of purple and white heather; and as the last honey-bees were leaving the beautiful blossoms their humming came to our ears like low, strange music from Fairyland.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Aquel hombre, grande por sus extraordinarias cualidades y digno de admiración, aquel hombre—ya todo el que esto lee lo sabe—era Antonio Maceo.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

She sat quite still, after the first momentary glance of grieved surprise, that made her eyes look like some child's who has met with an unexpected rebuff; they slowly dilated into mournful, reproachful sadness; and then they fell, and she bent over her work, and did not speak again.
— from North and South by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

Eliphas Lévi, La Science des Esprits , p. 40.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

From the deeds and days of Columbus down to the present, and including the present—and especially the late secession war—when I con them, I feel, every leaf, like stopping to see if I have not made a mistake, and fall'n on the splendid figments of some dream.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

And Emmy Lou, left sitting at her desk, saw through gathering tears the line of First-Readers wind around the room and file out the door, the sound of their departing footsteps along the bare corridors and down the echoing stairway coming back like a knell to her sinking heart.
— from Emmy Lou: Her Book and Heart by George Madden Martin

"I must e'en let Lady Scrope know when it is to be," said Dorcas, "if I can make shift to do so.
— from The Sign of the Red Cross: A Tale of Old London by Evelyn Everett-Green

That evening Lisbeth Longfrock sat with her tongue thrust into one corner of her mouth, and wrote her response.
— from Lisbeth Longfrock by Hans Aanrud

A rich English lady, long since dead, had a large mansion in the country with fine bedrooms; so she found a pleasure in keeping those rooms empty and sending guests to sleep at the top of the house in little bare and comfortless chambers [Pg 105] that the architect had intended for servants.
— from Human Intercourse by Philip Gilbert Hamerton

"O-o-h!" exclaimed Lottie, looking shudderingly down the steep bank, at the bottom of which brawled a swift stream among ice-capped rocks.
— from From Jest to Earnest by Edward Payson Roe