This very meeting with Semper, strange as it may appear, was the first really encouraging sign that I can remember.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

We must first remould everything so that they won’t be superfluous and then bring them into the world.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

2 85 90 XI As one whose brain habitual frensy fires Owes to the fit in which his soul hath tossed Profounder quiet, when the fit retires, Even so the dire phantasma which had crossed His sense, in sudden vacancy quite lost, Left his mind still as a deep evening stream.
— from The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) by William Wordsworth

His passion for reading, especially such the poetry as fell into his hands, showed itself while he was yet a child.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various

43 , to which are added further rings every season, till the mass of wood becomes a strong solid shaft.
— from Ancient Plants Being a Simple Account of the past Vegetation of the Earth and of the Recent Important Discoveries Made in This Realm of Nature by Marie Carmichael Stopes

At this period captain Forrest reckoned eight sail to leeward, near another port called Petit Goave.
— from The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. Continued from the Reign of William and Mary to the Death of George II. by T. (Tobias) Smollett

He was a dark man, with a short black beard, and full restless eye; some ten years older apparently than the other, who was a dare-devil boy of twenty.
— from The History of David Grieve by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Brigitta could venture to say much, for she had grown old in the house; had carried Elise as a child in her arms; and from affection to her, had followed her when she left her father's house: besides this, she was a most excellent guardian for the children; but as now these complaints of hers were too frequently repeated, Elise said to her seriously: "Dear Brigitta, let him eat and drink as much as he likes, without any observation: I would willingly allow him a pound of sugar and coffee a day, if he only became, as I hope he may, a good friend and preceptor for the children."
— from The Home; Or, Life in Sweden by Fredrika Bremer

Then add a small piece of butter and three or four raw eggs, stirring them quickly with the tomatoes.
— from Simple Italian Cookery by Mabel Earl McGinnis

HOW AN HUNTER SHOULD GO IN QUEST BETWEEN THE PLAINS AND THE WOOD Also a man may go in quest in the fields in corn, in vines, in gardens, and in other places, where the harts go to their pasture in the fields out of the wood, and he must go forth right early so that he may look at the ground and judge well, and if he sees anything that pleases him he can break boughs and lay his mark and cast round as before is said.
— from The Master of Game: The Oldest English Book on Hunting by of Norwich Edward