Moreover, if we follow for a few miles any line of rocky cliff, which is undergoing degradation, we find that it is only here
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

I told him that Count Orloff was waiting for me at Leghorn, and that I was obliged to travel day and night.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

All this was Greek or gibberish to the peasants, but not so to the students, who very soon perceived the crack in Don Quixote's pate; for all that, however, they regarded him with admiration and respect, and one of them said to him, "If you, sir knight, have no fixed road, as it is the way with those who seek adventures not to have any, let your worship come with us; you will see one of the finest and richest weddings that up to this day have ever been celebrated in La Mancha, or for many a league round."
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

for myself, and L7 10s.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The night was one of extreme beauty; the sun had long set, but there was still a rosy gleam in the sky over the ruins of the railway station; below me was the city already twinkling with lights, while beyond it stretched the plains for many a league until they blended with the sky.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

It gave him an odd sensation to reflect that, but for the Countess's arrival, he might have been, if not still a free man, at least a man less irrevocably pledged.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

In polished verses, albeit hath issued forth So much from me already; lo, there is The law and aspect of the sky to be By reason grasped; there are the tempest times And the bright lightnings to be hymned now— Even what they do and from what cause soe'er They're borne along—that thou mayst tremble not, Marking off regions of prophetic skies For auguries, O foolishly distraught Even as to whence the flying flame hath come, Or to which half of heaven it turns, or how Through walled places it hath wound its way, Or, after proving its dominion there, How it hath speeded forth from thence amain— Whereof nowise the causes do men know,
— from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

“I have resigned my position and have come here to try my fortune as a free man and lead a settled life.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Allow me to believe that apart from our connection you have for me, at least in part, the same friendly feeling I have always had for you ... and sincere esteem,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, pressing his hand.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

But his affection for me at length overcame his dislike of learning, and he has permitted me to undertake a voyage of discovery to the land of knowledge."
— from Frankenstein; Or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

She ran through many troubles, when first married, and long after, for there were scandalous tongues in the neighbourhood that did not stick to say my father was willing to wear the horns, provided they were tipped with gold.
— from Pablo de Segovia, the Spanish Sharper by Francisco de Quevedo

It had increased Hennesey's respect for Murphy and lessened his respect for himself; for without Murphy's moral support he could not have done his part.
— from The Grain Ship by Morgan Robertson

In the very nick of time, for me at least, we caught sight of the lamplight streaming from the windows of the Squire’s house.
— from Everyday Adventures by Samuel Scoville

The same qualities appear also in the Val-de-Grâce , by F. Mansart and Lemercier, a domical church of excellent proportions begun under Louis XIII.
— from A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised by A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster) Hamlin

You see how, when I come to talk of myself, I soon run dry, for I would fain make that a subject which can be no subject for me, at least not till I have the grace to rule myself.
— from Familiar Letters The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, Volume 06 (of 20) by Henry David Thoreau

To devote my life to you, to make you partaker of my ambition, my career, to raise you to the highest eminence in the matronage of England, to transfer pride from myself to you, to love and to honour and to prize you,—all this will be my boast; and all this will win love for me at last.
— from Alice, or the Mysteries — Book 01 by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

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— from Ulysses by James Joyce