FIRST EVENING "Last night"—I am quoting the Moon's own words—"last night I was gliding through the cloudless Indian sky.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

The grounds upon which Linnæus would fain have banished the whales from the waters, he states as follows: “On account of their warm bilocular heart, their lungs, their movable eyelids, their hollow ears, penem intrantem feminam mammis lactantem,” and finally, “ex lege naturæ jure meritoque.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Pour la petite histoire, dans le nord de l'Europe, les sites de ces émissions de trash TV changent complètement la donne en matière de web, en faisant exploser le nombre de connexions, sur les réseaux qui les accueillent (jusqu'à 700.000 pour le site big brother en Belgique…).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

The silver cord was not for ever loosed, nor the golden bowl irreparably broken.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

With these and such additions as I can give you from elsewhere, lose no time in making a demonstration, to be followed by an attack upon Mobile.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

The same stimulus will not produce the same recollection in another man who did not share your former experience, although the former experience left no OBSERVABLE traces in the structure of the brain.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

The King himself is coming on; if you stay, You are lost for ever; let not so much nobleness Wilfully perish.
— from Beaumont and Fletcher's Works, Vol. 06 of 10 by John Fletcher

When he saw Napoleon before his departure from Paris to the Belgian frontier, he found him suffering from depression and a pain in the chest; but he avers that, on the return from Waterloo, apart from one "frightful epileptic laugh," Napoleon speedily settled down to his ordinary behaviour: not a word is added as to his health.
— from The Life of Napoleon I (Complete) by J. Holland (John Holland) Rose

Fish have no ears, but they can feel every little noise in the water.”
— from The Lure of the Mississippi by D. (Dietrich) Lange

Oportet autem, rectas parallelas ad lineam plani, prolongari usque ad visualem TO , (quæ cadit extra paginam) ut adminiculo parallelarum, fiat elevatio longitudinis nostri ædificii, de quâ dicemus figurâ quadragesimaquartâ.
— from Rules and Examples of Perspective proper for Painters and Architects, etc. In English and Latin: Containing a most easie and expeditious method to delineate in perspective all designs relating to architecture by Andrea Pozzo

All have fled, evaporated, leaving no trace.
— from Letters to Madame Hanska, born Countess Rzewuska, afterwards Madame Honoré de Balzac, 1833-1846 by Honoré de Balzac

They weer coming down fast enew last night.
— from The Weathercock: Being the Adventures of a Boy with a Bias by George Manville Fenn

Each of us knew that, but for Alzura's quickness, I should have disappeared for ever, leaving no trace behind me.
— from At the Point of the Sword by Herbert Hayens

After discovering that my troops were massing in front of Harper's Ferry, Early lost not a moment in concentrating his in the vicinity of Martinsburg, in positions from which he could continue to obstruct the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, and yet be enabled to retire up the valley under conditions of safety when I should begin an offensive campaign.
— from Project Gutenberg Edition of The Memoirs of Four Civil War Generals by John Alexander Logan

It is astonishing to see how those that once seemed 'sons of the morning,' and were making preparations for eternal life, now at last, for the rottenness of their hearts, by the just judgment of God, to be permitted, being past feeling, to give 'themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness' (Eph 4:18,19).
— from Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by John Bunyan

Wendell Phillips A Staunch Friend] Every live newspaper office has as part of its necessary equipment What is familiarly known as "The Graveyard."
— from The Torch Bearer A Look Forward and Back at the Woman's Journal, the Organ of the Woman's Movement by Agnes E. Ryan