762 To-day the newspapers, no longer the echoes of public opinion but its supreme directors, throw open their columns to every form of disintegrating doctrine and close them to arguments that could effectually arrest the forces of destruction.
— from Secret Societies And Subversive Movements by Nesta Helen Webster

It's also a window for our different departments, at the Institute but also elsewhere in France and abroad.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

Fear of devils, death, that they shall be so sick, of some such or such disease, ready to tremble at every object, they shall die themselves forthwith, or that some of their dear friends or near allies are certainly dead; imminent danger, loss, disgrace still torment others, &c.; that they are all glass, and therefore will suffer no man to come near them: that they are all cork, as light as feathers; others as heavy as lead; some are afraid their heads will fall off their shoulders, that they have frogs in their bellies, &c. [2482]
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

I would exactly set down the several changes in customs, language, fashions of dress, diet, and diversions.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

Then the famous old dancer did a subtle thing called “The nurse putting the child to sleep.”
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

But while leaving unsaid much that should properly even prepare the way for the treatment of this many-sided question of political liberty, equality, or republicanism—leaving the whole history and consideration of the feudal plan and its products, embodying humanity, its politics and civilization, through the retrospect of past time, (which plan and products, indeed, make up all of the past, and a large part of the present)—leaving unanswer'd, at least by any specific and local answer, many a well-wrought argument and instance, and many a conscientious declamatory cry and warning—as, very lately, from an eminent and venerable person abroad{24}—things, problems, full of doubt, dread, suspense, (not new to me, but old occupiers of many an anxious hour in city's din, or night's silence,) we still may give a page or so, whose drift is opportune.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

The idea of private property universal but private, the idea of families free but still families, of domesticity democratic but still domestic, of one man one house—this remains the real vision and magnet of mankind.
— from What's Wrong with the World by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

The new era began; the king was tried, doomed, and beheaded; the Republic of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, or Death, declared for victory or death against the world in arms; the black flag waved night and day from the great towers of Notre Dame; three hundred thousand men, summoned to rise against the tyrants of the earth, rose from all the varying soils of France, as if the dragon's teeth had been sown broadcast, and had yielded fruit equally on hill and plain, on rock, in gravel, and alluvial mud, under the bright sky of the South and under the clouds of the North, in fell and forest, in the vineyards and the olive-grounds and among the cropped grass and the stubble of the corn, along the fruitful banks of the broad rivers, and in the sand of the sea-shore.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

On my experience, Adam , freely taste, And fear of Death deliver to the Windes.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

I Blue July, bright July, Month of storms and gorgeous blue; Violet lightnings o’er thy sky, Heavy falls of drenching dew;
— from Poems — Volume 1 by George Meredith

When Evadne left Colonel Colquhoun he threw himself into a chair, and sat, chin on chest, hands in pockets, legs stretched out before him, giving way to a fit of deep disgust.
— from The Heavenly Twins by Sarah Grand

Led to the shameful spectacle, aghast, That other, from afar, viewed all that passed, LII "And fell into such fit of deep despair, He there resolved to die; and, to that end, Planted the pommel of his falchion bare I' the ground, its point against his breast to bend.
— from Orlando Furioso by Lodovico Ariosto

I think the Duke of Burgundy will fast, Before he’ll buy again at such a rate: ’Twas full of darnel: do you like the taste?” Date.
— from Folk-lore of Shakespeare by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Ken couldn't remember just when the fear had started—maybe on the way outward, now that he thought of it: the feeling of deep depression.
— from Fly By Night by Arthur Dekker Savage

They are pure animists, and believe that the forests and hills are full of demons disposed to do them harm.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 2 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

Now, what concerns you in this confession, firstly, is this: As senior member and three-fourths owner in the firm of Denton, Day & Co., I am about to assume the responsibility of its business, and to introduce new methods in its various systems which I have every reason to believe will not meet with your approval.
— from For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store by Lurana Sheldon