The same day an odd fishing practice further increased the Nautilus's stores, so full of game were these seas.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

I should like to go farther, and give reasons to show that it is advisable to choose those who are to hold so necessary an office in the state, but this is not the fit place for it; some day I will expound the matter to some one able to see to and rectify it; all I say now is, that the additional fact of his being a sorcerer has removed the sorrow it gave me to see these white hairs and this venerable countenance in so painful a position on account of his being a pimp; though I know well there are no sorceries in the world that can move or compel the will as some simple folk fancy, for our will is free, nor is there herb or charm that can force it.
— from The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As my eye glanced round this place, I thought I saw sitting, by an open port, with one of the Micawber children near her, a figure like Emily’s; it first attracted my attention, by another figure parting from it with a kiss; and as it glided calmly away through the disorder, reminding me of—Agnes!
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

This distinction was first made by Tarde in a paper entitled "Le Public et la foule," published first in La Revue de Paris in 1898, and included with several others on the same general theme under the title L'Opinion et la foule which appeared in 1901.
— from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. (Ernest Watson) Burgess

“And as th’ last deep accents Of reconcilement and of blessing sounded; Lo! Ing’borg sudden enters, rich adorn’d With bridal ornaments, and all enrob’d In gorgeous ermine, and by bright-ey’d maidens Slow-follow’d, as on heav’n’s broad canopy, Attending star-trains guard the regent-moon!— But the young bride’s fair eyes, Those two blue skies, Fill quick with tears, And to her brother’s heart she trembling sinketh;— He, with his sister’s fears Deep-mov’d, her hand all tenderly in Frithiof’s linketh, His burden soft transferring to that hero’s breast, Its long-tried faith fit place for Ing’borg’s rest.” Tegnér, Frithiof Saga (G. Stephens’s tr.).
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

For private families, in what sort they should furnish themselves, let them consult with P. Crescentius, de Agric.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But as the perturbations of the mind make life miserable, and tranquillity renders it happy; and as these perturbations are of two sorts, grief and fear, proceeding from imagined evils, and as immoderate joy and lust arise from a mistake about what is good, and as all these feelings are in opposition to reason and counsel; when you see a man at ease, quite free and disengaged from such troublesome commotions, which are so much at variance with one another, can you hesitate to pronounce such a one a happy man?
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

For power finds its place in lack of power; Advance is cession, and the driven ship May run aground because the helmsman's thought Lacked force to balance opposites.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Our leader has his hand upon the latch of ‘Almack’s,’ and calls to us from the bottom of the steps; for the assembly-room of the Five Point fashionables is approached by a descent.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

It has helped the farmers, put fortunes in the pockets of the shipowners, and swollen the profits of any manufacturers who have been able to turn out stuff wanted for war or for the indirect needs of war.
— from International Finance by Hartley Withers

On October 31, 1921, the Sussex Daily News published the following paragraph from its London correspondent.
— from Birth Control: A Statement of Christian Doctrine against the Neo-Malthusians by Halliday Sutherland

My answer is this: I certainly was the first person (first, I believe, by some years) to point out the plagiarisms of Coleridge, and above all others that circumstantial plagiarism, of which it is impossible to suppose him unconscious, from Schelling.
— from The Collected Writing of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. II by Thomas De Quincey

I wilted like a flower plucked from its stem.
— from Bobbie, General Manager: A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty

All alike besought Agni by fervent prayers for increase of flocks and families, for happy lives and serene old age, for wisdom and pardon of sin.
— from Fishes, Flowers, & Fire as Elements and Deities in the Phallic Faiths & Worship of the Ancient Religions of Greece, Babylon, Rome, India, &c. by Anonymous

[Pg 189] SECTION XXIII PREPARATION FOR SINGING No one can sing properly without first preparing for it, mentally and physically, with all the organs concerned in the production of the voice.
— from How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] by Lilli Lehmann