There is an enormous open fireplace, and a floor good enough to dance on.
— from Etiquette by Emily Post

All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.
— from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

During this time I made my rounds in the woods for game every day when the rain permitted me, and made frequent discoveries in these walks of something or other to my advantage; particularly, I found a kind of wild pigeons, which build, not as wood-pigeons in a tree, but rather as house-pigeons, in the holes of the rocks; and taking some young ones, I endeavoured to breed them up tame, and did so; but when they grew older they flew away, which perhaps was at first for want of feeding them, for I had nothing to give them; however, I frequently found their nests, and got their young ones, which were very good meat.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

It may be a sign of strength ; spiritual vigour may have increased to such an extent that the goals toward which man has marched hitherto (the "convictions," articles of faith) are no longer suited to it (for a faith generally expresses the exigencies of the conditions of existence, a submission to the authority of an order of things which conduces to the prosperity, the growth and power of a living creature ...); on the other hand, a sign of insufficient strength, to fix a goal, a "wherefore," and a faith for itself.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Farewell gayety, ease, those happy turns of expressions, which formerly even made my faults escape correction.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

They beleeved the Apostles, and after them the Pastors and Doctors of the Church, that recommended to their faith the History of the Old and New Testament: so that the Faith of Christians ever since our Saviours time, hath had for foundation, first, the reputation of their Pastors, and afterward, the authority of those that made the Old and New Testament to be received for the Rule of Faith; which none could do but Christian Soveraignes; who are therefore the Supreme Pastors, and the onely Persons, whom Christians now hear speak from God; except such as God speaketh to, in these days supernaturally.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Unfortunately, like armorial bearings in Europe, but to a far greater extent, the Japanese mon has been greatly pirated and abused.
— from A Complete Guide to Heraldry by Arthur Charles Fox-Davies

(French gendarmes embrace on the other side clustering like starfish on the twin breasts of a beach.)
— from Sympathetic Magic by Paul Cameron Brown

It changes, to some extent the form, but to a far greater extent the working, and the spirit of all our institutions.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey

'But Cecil,' interrupted I, growing weary of this rude story, 'what has all this to do with Henry Graham's exile from Glen Eredine?'
— from Discipline by Mary Brunton

They enjoyed reading aloud, finding George Eliot's Middlemarch and Hawthorne's Scarlet Letter of particular interest as Susan was searching for the answers to many questions which had been brought into sharp focus by the Beecher-Tilton case, now filling the newspapers.
— from Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Alma Lutz

"It is good of the senor to honor us with his presence, this morning," he said in fairly good English—in his early years he had been a cattle rustler in
— from Bert Wilson at Panama by J. W. Duffield

J. T. Gibson; C. H. Harmon, Esq.; J. W. Cooper, Esq.; Dr. Fletcher; Giles Elem, Esq.; Jas. M. Moulton, Esq.; Benjamin Cook, Esq.; S. B. D'Lyon, M.D., and others, Committee, &c., &c. Reception Meeting at Palmas
— from Official Report of the Niger Valley Exploring Party by Martin Robison Delany

Neither before nor since was ever such slaughter known since the Saxons first gained England by their arms.”
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

His full, gray eye, in its somewhat sleepy expression, evinced that quiet melancholy peculiar to poetic genius, while a certain searching and wandering look with which he occasionally stared fixedly around him, suggested the idea that his sight was not perfect.
— from Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, March 1850 by Various