Here and there choruses of little girls threw to the winds, amid the passers-by, who formed into circles and applauded, the then celebrated Bourbon air, which was destined to strike the Hundred Days with lightning, and which had for its refrain:— “Rendez-nous notre père de Gand, Rendez-nous notre père.” “Give us back our father from Ghent, Give us back our father.” Groups of dwellers in the suburbs, in Sunday array, sometimes even decorated with the fleur-de-lys, like the bourgeois, scattered over the large square and the Marigny square, were playing at rings and revolving on the wooden horses; others were engaged in drinking; some journeyman printers had on paper caps; their laughter was audible.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

The clouds become thin; an arch is formed for ever rising upwards, till, the universal cope being unveiled, the sun pours forth its rays, re-animated and fed by the breeze.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

To what extent do dialectics and the faith in reason rest upon moral prejudices?
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Further, its representative relation to the world must be very deep, absolutely true, and strikingly accurate, because it is instantly understood by every one, and has the appearance of a certain infallibility, because its form may be reduced to perfectly definite rules expressed in numbers, from which it cannot free itself without entirely ceasing to be music.
— from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

The parts also, with the exception of song and spectacle, are the same; for it requires Reversals of the Situation, Recognitions, and Scenes of Suffering.
— from The Poetics of Aristotle by Aristotle

For information regarding railroad fares, service, etc., apply to railroad ticket agents or address A. J. Dickinson, passenger-traffic manager, Great Northern Railway, St. Paul, Minn. A regular bus schedule is maintained by the Glacier Park Transport Co. to accommodate persons arriving by rail.
— from Glacier National Park [Montana] by United States. Department of the Interior

If such a dismal fiction is really regarded by serious inquirers as having any counterpart in savage society, and not simply as a useful abstraction, Dr. Malinowski’s account of the Kula in this book should [ xi ] help to lay the phantom by the heels; for he proves that the trade in useful objects, which forms part of the Kula system, is in the minds of the natives entirely subordinate in importance to the exchange of other objects, which serve no utilitarian purpose whatever.
— from Argonauts of the Western Pacific An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski

I inquired, greatly surprised, for I remembered remarking, during the interview
— from Among the Pines; or, South in Secession Time by James R. (James Roberts) Gilmore

glowered Farnum, in righteous rage.
— from The Submarine Boys' Lightning Cruise The Young Kings of the Deep by Victor G. Durham

"I said I could find it," replied Rollo, "and so I can; but I am willing to pay one of these children for showing me, but not all.
— from Rollo in Rome by Jacob Abbott

"Freddie is really rather a dear at times.
— from Bull-dog Drummond: The Adventures of a Demobilised Officer Who Found Peace Dull by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile

There is often a gruesome side to the old English church—a bit of human skin flayed from a living church robber is shown at Gloucester, frightful effigies representing decayed corpses at Canterbury and Sherborne, and at Romsey a broad plait of human hair, found in recent restoration work.
— from In Unfamiliar England A Record of a Seven Thousand Mile Tour by Motor of the Unfrequented Nooks and Corners, and the Shrines of Especial Interest, in England; With Incursions into Scotland and Ireland. by Thos. D. (Thomas Dowler) Murphy

Martha’s chickens were always tender and fat, and their eggs were the largest and freshest in Red River.
— from The Red Man's Revenge: A Tale of The Red River Flood by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne

Behold the rocky wall That down its sloping sides Pours the swift rain-drops, blending, as they fall, In rushing river-tides!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

After you were gone that night of the fire, I ran right to Mr. Dewey and told him all about it.
— from Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891 by Various