Darling Room I O darling room, my heart's delight, Dear room, the apple of my sight, With thy two couches soft and white, There is no room so exquisite, No little room so warm and bright, Wherein to read, wherein to write.
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Now, the globes of the stars far surpass the magnitude of our earth, which at that distance appeared so exceedingly small that I could not but be sensibly affected on seeing our whole empire no larger than if we touched the earth, as it were, at a single point.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

It is easy to enter, but sometimes they who enter never leave it.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

With execrations not loud but deep I left him to live or die as he could, well satisfied that I had done my duty in attempting to save him—but forgetting how I had erred in bringing him into such a condition, and how insultingly my after-services had been offered—and sullenly prepared to meet the consequences if he should choose to say I had attempted to murder him—which I thought not unlikely, as it seemed probable he was actuated by such spiteful motives in so perseveringly refusing my assistance.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

That he was naturally of a very wan and pallid aspect, however, his hollow cheeks, sharp features, and sunken eyes, no less than a certain look of patient endurance, sufficiently testified.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

well, henceforth I'll eat no living thing, But feed on herbs, and water from the spring; Or starve and die—a cruel, cruel fate— Sooner than be a thing of universal hate."
— from The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré by Jean de La Fontaine

Nam esse pro cive, qui civis non sit, rectum est non licere; quam legem tulerunt sapientissimi consules Crassus et Scaevola; usu vero urbis prohibere peregrinos sane inhumanum est.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

This speech—the style of which Newman attributed to Mr. Lillyvick’s recent association with theatrical characters—not being quite explanatory, Newman looked as if he were about to ask another question, when Mr. Lillyvick prevented him by shaking his hand mournfully, and then waving his own.
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

It expresses natural life.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

As athletics of all kinds hold it necessary, not only to prepare the body by exercise and discipline, but sometimes to give it proper relaxation, which they esteem no less requisite, so do I think it highly necessary also for men of letters, after their severer studies, to relax a little, that they may return to them with the greater pleasure and alacrity; and for this purpose there is no better repose than that which arises from the reading of such books as not only by their humour and pleasantry may entertain them, but convey at the same time some useful instruction, both which, I flatter myself, the reader will meet with in the following history; for he will not only be pleased with the novelty of the plan, and the variety of lies, which I have told with an air of truth, but with the tacit allusions so frequently made, not, I trust, without some degree of humour, to our ancient poets, historians, and philosophers, who have told us some most miraculous and incredible stories, and which I should have pointed out to you, but that I thought they would be sufficiently visible on the perusal.
— from Trips to the Moon by of Samosata Lucian

I am not instructing the nurse to attempt to conduct a case of even natural labor without having a physician if he can be obtained, but she should consider the services of a trained practitioner imperatively necessary in these unusual cases.
— from Mother, Nurse and Infant A Manual Especially Adapted for the Guidance of Mothers and Monthly Nurses, Comprising Full Instruction in Regard To Pregnancy, Preparation for Child-birth, and the Care of Mother and Child, and Designed to Impart so Much Knowledge of Anatomy, Physiology, Midwifery, and the Proper Use of Medicines as Will Serve Intelligently to Direct the Wife, Mother and Nurse in All Emergencies. by S. P. Sackett

This locality appears to be the extreme northern limit of the Spanish moss for only a few bedraggled clumps were noted in the woods near Eastville on the Chesapeake Bay side of the peninsula.
— from Life Histories of North American Wood Warblers, Part One and Part Two by Arthur Cleveland Bent

He learns within a few hours or minutes of every new lot of plants sprouting from the seed or set out from the hotbed.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various

[in] Summer: as I came hither, there was no pair of stairs, no entry, no lobby, but was pestred with them: methinks there might be some course taken to destroy them.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 10 of 10 by John Fletcher

He drew a swift breath, caught by his own vehemence, his eyes never leaving the unchildish ones opposite.
— from The Game and the Candle by Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie) Ingram

Disregard of a decision entailed not loss of liberty but loss of caste.
— from Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus

When we have seen a sight it ceases to impress us, use is second nature, what is always before our eyes no longer appeals to the imagination, and it is only through the imagination that we can feel the sorrows of others; this is why priests and doctors who are always beholding death and suffering become so hardened.
— from Emile by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

In the schedule of his confiscated property it was mentioned that besides houses, lands, and other immovable property to an amazing extent, not less [454] than one hundred and five millions of dollars in bullion and gems were found in his treasury.
— from The Middle Kingdom, Volume 1 (of 2) A Survey of the Geography, Government, Literature, Social Life, Arts, and History of the Chinese Empire and its Inhabitants by S. Wells (Samuel Wells) Williams