[76] And in the love and the fate of Ophelia herself there was introduced an element, not of deep tragedy but of pathetic beauty, which makes the analysis of her character seem almost a desecration.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

Thermometer at 3 oClock Stood at 96° above 0, emence numbs. of Deer on the banks, Skipping in every derection, the party Killed nine Bucks on the river & Bank to day, The Countrey on the S. S. between the Shoal River & Missouris is indifferent Subject to overflow, that below and on the L. S. is high & appers well timbered, Camped on the L. S. opsd.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

In her lonesome cottage, by the seashore, thoughts visited her such as dared to enter no other dwelling in New England; shadowy guests, that would have been as perilous as demons to their entertainer, could they have been seen so much as knocking at her door.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Au reste, le Conseil, en estimant que l'on pourroit s'en servir, croit cependant, que si les enfans dont il s'agit, venoient au monde, contre l'esperance de ceux qui se seroient servis du meme moyen, il seroit necessaire de les baptiser sous condition; & en cela le Conseil se conforme a tous les rituels, qui en autorisant le bapteme d'un enfant qui fait paroitre quelque partie de son corps, enjoignent neantmoins, & ordonnent de le baptiser sous condition, s'il vient heureusement au monde.
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

The tide of luxury has swept all the inhabitants from the open country—The poorest squire, as well as the richest peer, must have his house in town, and make a figure with an extraordinary number of domestics.
— from The Expedition of Humphry Clinker by T. (Tobias) Smollett

In her lonesome cottage, by the sea-shore, thoughts visited her, such as dared to enter no other dwelling in New England; shadowy guests, that would have been as perilous as demons to their entertainer, could they have been seen so much as knocking at her door.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

I thought M. le Duc d'Orleans would not resist the evidence I should bring forward, in order to show the extraordinary nature of Dubois' verbal instructions: I deceived myself.
— from Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency — Volume 14 by Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy, duc de

Nay, when that sort of usurpation hath been the very engine of dividing, corrupting, and undoing the christian churches above a thousand years, we are not easily persuaded now, that it is yet either necessary or desirable.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 3: Christian Ecclesiastics by Richard Baxter

The “ tyrant ” whose death is here referred to must necessarily be either Nero or Domitian , as these were, up to the end of the first century, the only imperial persecutors of the Christians.
— from Notes on the New Testament, Explanatory and Practical: Revelation by Albert Barnes

In order to foresee consequences there is required not only empirical observation 364 of past experience, not only deduction from already formulated concepts—as when we say that injustice will cause hard feelings and revolt—but that rarer quality which in the presence of a situation discerns a meaning not obvious, suggests an idea, "injustice," to interpret the situation.
— from Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by George H. Mead

[9] For example, noisy or disorderly conduct in quarters, failure to salute officers, slovenly dressed at formations, rifle equipments not properly cleaned at inspection or other formations, overstaying pass, short absences without leave and absences from formations (especially for first offense).
— from Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

Every name of distinction among the citizens of Florence was connected with its monuments.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 3 (of 7) The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

Two dozen men, or thereabout, in the Mulgrave colours, armed with muskets and cutlasses, stood near the porch; an equal number of Dutchmen, pistols in belt and gun in hand, sat on empty barrels, pails turned bottom upward, hen-coops, anything.
— from The MS. in a Red Box by John A. (John Arthur) Hamilton

This mysterious power (which is even now often described popularly as animal magnetism) must be the same that is looked upon by primitive people as the source of taboo, the same that emanates from kings and chieftains and makes it dangerous to approach them ( mana ).
— from Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego by Sigmund Freud

The same failure, perhaps usually worse, is displayed every time an English novelist or dramatist essays to put an American into a novel or a play, and to make him speak American.
— from The American Language A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken