To what dark cave of frozen night Shall poor Sylvander hie; Depriv'd of thee, his life and light, The sun of all his joy? We part—but by these precious drops, That fill thy lovely eyes, No other light shall guide my steps, Till thy bright beams arise!
— from Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns

Sue did not for a moment, either now or later, suspect what troubles had resulted to him from letting her go; it never once seemed to cross her mind, and she had received no news whatever from Shaston.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Part of fairydom refers to (1) spirits that never were embodied: other fairies are (2) spirits of environment, nature or local spirits, and household or domestic spirits; (3) spirits of the organic world, spirits of plants, and spirits of animals; (4) spirits of men, or ghosts; and (5) witches and wizards, or men possessed with other spirits.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

Púsele no sé qué pero, I don’t know quite know dijímonos no sé qué what it was I said sobre ello, y el hecho fue some words or other, but they led que él mofándome altanero to him mocking me haughtily me dijo: "Y si esto no os llena, saying: ‘If this is not adequate proof, pues que os casáis con doña Ana, since you and Doña Ana are to be wed, os apuesto a que mañana I’ll wager that by tomorrow instead os la quito yo".
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

But his ambition may in some measure be excused by the revolutions of Asia, 52 which had erased every notion of legitimate succession; by the recent example of the Atabeks themselves; by his reverence to the son of his benefactor; his humane and generous behavior to the collateral branches; by their incapacity and his merit; by the approbation of the caliph, the sole source of all legitimate power; and, above all, by the wishes and interest of the people, whose happiness is the first object of government.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Either Newton or Laplace, seeking a principle and discovering none physical , would have rested contentedly in the conclusion that there was absolutely none; but it is almost impossible to fancy, of Leibnitz, that, having exhausted in his search the physical dominions, he would not have stepped at once, boldly and hopefully, amid his old familiar haunts in the kingdom of Metaphysics.
— from Eureka: A Prose Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

Marry Well or Verily, as thus, Bén mi paréua strán o , Indeed it seemed strange to me, E', Egli, or Ei, are expressed with the English Particle, It, namely in the beginning of a sentence, and speaking of any thing and no person, as for example, E' mi páre una grán cósa, It seemeth a great thing vnto mee, Egli n o l saprà mái pers ó na, No body shall euer know it,
— from Queen Anna's New World of Words; or, Dictionarie of the Italian and English Tongues by John Florio

Lastly, to show that the much-abused friars made good use of the libraries they possessed, there is a List of Scholars given in Steven’s Monasticon , 11 from which it appears that eighty names of learned scholars and writers may be found among the Dominicans, as many as one hundred and twenty-two among the Franciscans, and one hundred and thirty-seven among the Carmelites.
— from Mediæval London, Volume 1: Historical & Social by Walter Besant

Every one who has travelled up the Rhone valley in Switzerland has noted the enormous number of lateral streams, of all sizes, which tumble down the mountain sides into the Rhone.
— from Modern Geography by Marion I. (Marion Isabel) Newbigin

For once the extreme naivete of Leblanc seems to have been mitigated by duplicity.
— from The World Set Free by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

Jack raised her tenderly in his arms, and, pouring forth every name of love, strove to soothe and pacify her.
— from The Squatter's Dream: A Story of Australian Life by Rolf Boldrewood

61 Governor Bradford, who was of the party, says that they made a barricade, as they were accustomed to do every night, of logs, stakes and thick pine boughs, the height of a man, leaving it open to the leeward, partly to shelter it from the cold and winds, making their fire in the middle and lying round about it, and partly to defend them from any assaults of the savages, if they should attack them.
— from Miles Standish, the Puritan Captain by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

At a still earlier time, in 1847, in my “Essay on Bengali,” I said: “As the infinitives of the Indo-Germanic languages must be regarded as the absolute cases of a verbal noun, it is probable that in Bengali the infinitive in ite was also originally a locative, which expressed not only local situation, but also movement towards some object, as an end, whether real or imaginary.
— from Chips from a German Workshop, Volume 4 Essays Chiefly on the Science of Language by F. Max (Friedrich Max) Müller