Now, in so far as Utilitarian morality coincides with that of Common Sense—as we have seen that it does in the main—this investigation has been partly performed in chap.
— from The Methods of Ethics by Henry Sidgwick

Who knows what beautiful and winged life, whose egg has been buried for ages under many concentric layers of woodenness in the dead dry life of society, deposited at first in the alburnum of the green and living tree, which has been gradually converted into the semblance of its well-seasoned tomb—heard perchance gnawing out now for years by the astonished family of man, as they sat round the festive board—may unexpectedly come forth from amidst society's most trivial and handselled furniture, to enjoy its perfect summer life at last!
— from Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience by Henry David Thoreau

As it was manifestly shown unto us in the Queen of Sheba, who came from the utmost borders of the East and Persian Sea, to see the order of Solomon’s house and to hear his wisdom; in Anacharsis, who came out of Scythia, even unto Athens, to see Solon; in Pythagoras, who travelled far to visit the memphitical vaticinators; in Plato, who went a great way off to see the magicians of Egypt, and Architus of Tarentum; in Apollonius Tyaneus, who went as far as unto Mount Caucasus, passed along the Scythians, the Massagetes, the Indians, and sailed over the great river Phison, even to the Brachmans to see Hiarchus; as likewise unto Babylon, Chaldea, Media, Assyria, Parthia, Syria, Phoenicia, Arabia, Palestina, and Alexandria, even unto Aethiopia, to see the Gymnosophists.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

And still he had his arms about my neck; and Mrs. Jervis was about my feet, and upon my coat.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

When my guardian left me, I turned my face away upon my couch and prayed to be forgiven if I, surrounded by such blessings, had magnified to myself the little tr
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

And long-continued ways, and winding floods, And unknown mountains, crown'd with unknown woods Pensive and slow, with sudden grief oppress'd, The king arose, and beat his careful breast, Cast a long look o'er all the coast and main, And sought, around, his native realm in vain; Then with erected eyes stood fix'd in woe, And as he spoke, the tears began to flow.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

I will not have it cast in my teeth, at some future day, that Madame Fosco acted under my coercion, and was, in plain fact, no witness at all.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

Timour might boast, that, at his accession to the throne, Asia was the prey of anarchy and rapine, whilst under his prosperous monarchy a child, fearless and unhurt, might carry a purse of gold from the East to the West.
— 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

The Wenlock series consists of a group of shales separating a lower, very inconstant, earthy limestone from an upper, more constant, thicker and purer limestone.
— from The Principles of Stratigraphical Geology by J. E. (John Edward) Marr

He has achieved a true work; he has found an unheard muffled cry, a kind of lamentation, coldly mystical.
— from The Book of Masks by Remy de Gourmont

draught, centreboard; she was but fairly fast, and underwent many changes.
— from Yachting, Vol. 2 by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of

You know how cruelly father always used me, calling me a noodle and a milksop, just because he couldn’t understand my fine nature.
— from The Story of an African Farm by Olive Schreiner

My first impression upon entering the room was that the strange surroundings struck with a homelike and familiar aspect upon my consciousness.
— from The Romance of a Plain Man by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow

Love such as hers—passionate, adoring, protective, longing to sacrifice itself, to give all that it had to him, yet secretly demanding all his love in return—for how could a proud woman love one who did not love her?—such love as this is always longing for a union more complete than it is likely to get in a world where all things move and change.
— from The Works of John Galsworthy An Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Galsworthy by John Galsworthy

Notwithstanding the large and favorable rainfall of these countries, each of the nations have selected the one crop which permits them to utilize not only practically the entire amount of rain which falls upon their fields, but in addition enormous volumes of the run-off from adjacent uncultivable mountain country.
— from Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King

Meanwhile the girls who were earnest in the work of putting Central High ahead in the inter-school athletic competition worked hard on the field and under Mrs. Case’s eye in the gymnasium.
— from The Girls of Central High on Track and Field Or, The Champions of the School League by Gertrude W. Morrison

In saddling his horse rather hastily he was as unmoved as though preparing for an uneventful morning canter.
— from At Fault by Kate Chopin

Sometimes a long, flat, and unsightly marsh came into view, and at the sound of the wheels thousands of wild-fowl rose, screaming, into the air.
— from Under the Star-Spangled Banner: A Tale of the Spanish-American War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton