But he passed from life, and I never saw him again..
— from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World by Mark Twain

She knows all the folly and all the wickedness of my former life, and is not afraid to trust me—and my rank and title are no allurements to her; for them she utterly disregards.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Primitive music is indeed a wail and a parturition; magical and suggestive as it may be, for long ages it never bethinks itself to be beautiful.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

There is something light, fresh, laughing about it, not possessed by the heavy massive castles of the last century.”
— from English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield

He had noticed passing through this street lately that there was a hotel somewhere towards the end, built of wood, but fairly large, and its name he remembered was something like Adrianople.
— from Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

What chiefly diverts the men of democracies from lofty ambition is not the scantiness of their fortunes, but the vehemence of the exertions they daily make to improve them.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

After office I to the ‘Change a little, and then home and to dinner, and then by coach with my wife to the Duke of York’s house, and there saw “The Wits,” a play I formerly loved, and is now corrected and enlarged: but, though I like the acting, yet I like not much in the play now.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Now, however, am I out of service, without master, and yet not free; likewise am I no longer merry even for an hour, except it be in recollections.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

While these measures were in preparation, an opportunity was likely to be afforded to the Netherlanders of striking a blow or two for liberty and independence; now that all the force that possibly could be spared was to be withdrawn by their oppressors and to be used for the subjugation of their neighbours.
— from History of the United Netherlands, 1590-99 — Complete by John Lothrop Motley

The swan are of two kinds, the large and the small: the large swan is the same common to the Atlantic states: the small differs only from the large in size and in note: it is about one fourth less, and its note is entirely different.
— from History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. II To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6. by William Clark

Be this as it may, the lace known as Point d'Argentella is exceptionally fine even amongst other fine laces, and is noted most specially for the fine "jours" which form an essential part of the pattern, every effort apparently being made to give extra scope for their employment.
— from Chats on Old Lace and Needlework by Emily Leigh Lowes

The prosecution is conducted by a Procurator-Fiscal who is appointed by the Lord Advocate, and who holds his appointment for life and is not in any way under the authority of the police.
— from The Criminal & the Community by James Devon

Nat did not reply; but all that evening his face looked as I never saw it before.
— from Saxe Holm's Stories First Series by Helen Hunt Jackson

Latterly I have accustomed myself to the notion of giving it to the world at first in a foreign language, and I now take up your own former idea of having it translated into English, so as to make its production in London possible.
— from Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 by Franz Liszt

Kindness begot kindness, and the puppy who longed for love appreciated it none the less when he was grown, and could protect the woman who loved him.
— from A Country Idyl, and Other Stories by Sarah Knowles Bolton

They wanted a "fire and brimstone" preacher, one whose fiery eloquence could stir the very depths of their souls, and set their simple imaginations all ablaze; one who could shout and sing with true Western abandon; who could preach in his shirt-sleeves, sleep with them on the bare ground, brave all the dangers of a frontier life, and, if necessary, thrash any one who dared to insult him.
— from Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made by James Dabney McCabe