The new Bridge of Spain caught his attention, while the houses on the right bank of the river among the clumps of bamboo and trees where the Escolta ends and the Isla de Romero begins, reminded him of the cool mornings when he used to pass there in a boat on his way to the baths of Uli-Uli. He met many carriages, drawn by beautiful pairs of dwarfish ponies, within which were government clerks who seemed yet half asleep as they made their way to their offices, or military officers, or Chinese in foolish and ridiculous attitudes, or Gave friars and canons.
— from The Social Cancer: A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere by José Rizal

As the calamities of the besieged were great, so likewise were the terrors and sufferings of their protestant friends and relations; all of whom (even women and children) were forcibly driven from the country thirty miles round, and inhumanly reduced to the sad necessity of continuing some days and nights without food or covering, before the walls of the town; and were thus exposed to the continual fire both of the Irish army from without, and the shot of their friends from within.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Some of the soldiers were frightened and ran away, others went on filling their bags.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

Two great systems offered, in two legitimate directions, what are doubtless the final and radical accounts of physical being.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Plato has devoted himself more than any one else to the subject of love, especially in the Symposium and the Phaedrus ; what he has said about it, however, comes within the sphere of myth, fable, and raillery, and only applies for the most part to the love of a Greek youth.
— from Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

From twelve to two o’clock Danglars had remained in his study, unsealing his dispatches, and becoming more and more sad every minute, heaping figure upon figure, and receiving, among other visits, one from Major Cavalcanti, who, as stiff and exact as ever, presented himself precisely at the hour named the night before, to terminate his business with the banker.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

There is a God in this world; and a God's-sanction, or else the violation of such, does look out from all ruling and obedience, from all moral acts of men.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

To say the truth, I intend rather to seek my patrimony with battle-axe and sword, and that with the help of all my friends and relations, and of those who in this business will take my side.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

By the laws of the district, the “locators” or claimants of a ledge were obliged to do a fair and reasonable amount of work on their new property within ten days after the date of the location, or the property was forfeited, and anybody could go and seize it that chose.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

These are the requisites for all real and operative love.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren

The curtain then falls and rises again on the nursery of 37 Charles Street, Berkeley Square, London.
— from The Puppet Show of Memory by Maurice Baring

Wilson thought that he had foiled a real attack on Rodrigo, but was mistaken: Lapisse was only feinting.
— from A History of the Peninsular War, Vol. 2, Jan.-Sep. 1809 From the Battle of Corunna to the End of the Talavera Campaign by Charles Oman

But in consequence of the fell and remorseless acts of this one, which are the aversion of every one, all the worlds with gods and demons hold him in fear.
— from The Rāmāyana, Volume Two. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam by Valmiki

We are not to expect from the comic poet that he should always give us, along with the exhibition of a folly, a representation also of the opposite way of wisdom; in this way he would announce his object of instructing us with too much of method.
— from Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by August Wilhelm von Schlegel

I wished to surprise you into signing the contract, that I might have a fair and righteous advantage over them.
— from Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern

He had his usual detached air, which Rendel had always been accustomed to find a relief as opposed to his own strenuous attitude, of standing aloof as an amused spectator of human contingencies.
— from The Arbiter: A Novel by Bell, Florence Eveleen Eleanore Olliffe, Lady

But they could not give Mr. Condon any account of the ape's head they brought him, nor did they recognize its features as resembling any object or creature familiar to them even by tradition.
— from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands by Charles Nordhoff

And I realized that the enemy, coming by concerted agreement from front and rear at once, had nipped those of us who were upon the stage as between two closing walls, and I was exceedingly unhappy to be there.
— from The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb