These two apartments were very pitiable, poor in appearance, and in two quarters which were far remote from each other, the one in the Rue de l’Ouest, the other in the Rue de l’Homme Armé.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Now grief and all other perturbations 144 are doubtless baneful in their progress, and have, therefore, no small share of evil at the beginning; for they go on of themselves when once they depart from reason, for every weakness is self-indulgent, and indiscreetly launches out, and does not know where to stop.
— from Cicero's Tusculan Disputations Also, Treatises On The Nature Of The Gods, And On The Commonwealth by Marcus Tullius Cicero

Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic[obs3], euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big- sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent[obs3]; sesquipedal[obs3], sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

severity &c. 739; ferocity, rage, fury; exacerbation, exasperation, malignity; fit, paroxysm; orgasm, climax, aphrodisia[obs3]; force, brute force; outrage; coup de main; strain, shock, shog[obs3]; spasm, convulsion, throe; hysterics, passion &c. (state of excitability) 825.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

But the class of stories in which a mortal marries a water-maiden is large, and while the local details smack of the soil, the general idea is so like in lands far remote from each other as to indicate a common origin in pre-historic times.
— from British Goblins: Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Wirt Sikes

For it is perfectly permissible to employ, in the presence of reason, the language of a firmly rooted faith, even after we have been obliged to renounce all pretensions to knowledge.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

Everyone knows the history of the famous return from Elba, a return which was unprecedented in the past, and will probably remain without a counterpart in the future.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

Ordinary f. Original f. Transcendent f. Loyal f. Rising f. Episcopal f. Papal f. Doctoral f.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel by François Rabelais

This book, begun, as it appears, before the family returned from Europe, and finished nobody knows when, is an attempt to describe scenes from modern French society, but it is less interesting as an experiment of the fancy, than as a revelation of the mind of a young Hindu woman of genius.
— from Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan by Toru Dutt

In righteousness and for righteousness, for eternal truth He works, and for that His people must endure.
— from The Expositor's Bible: Judges and Ruth by Robert A. (Robert Alexander) Watson

To my thinking, the chief interest of all Forbes-Robertson's other parts is that they have "fed" his Hamlet; and, indeed, many of his best parts may be said to be studies for various sides of Hamlet, his fine Romeo , for example, which, unfortunately, he no longer plays.
— from Vanishing Roads and Other Essays by Richard Le Gallienne

Turkey was terribly shorn, and since then her power has been further reduced, for East Roumelia has broken loose from her control and united itself again to Bulgaria.
— from Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century by Charles Morris

Then fierce, red flames enwrapped the whole structure, while far and wide the raging fire swept over the fields of the Solitary Farm.
— from The Solitary Farm by Fergus Hume

In her state of mind she felt rebuked for everything that went wrong around her.
— from Narcissus by Evelyn Scott

if this be life, to know The agonizing weight of hopeless woe: Thus far, remote from every friendly eye, To drop the tear, and heave the ceaseless sigh; Each dreadful pang remorse inflicts to prove, To weep and pray, yet still to weep and love: Scorn'd by the virgins of this holy dome, A living victim in the cloyster'd tomb, To pray, though hopeless, justice should forgive, Scorn'd by myself—if this be life—I live!
— from Poems: Containing The Restropect, Odes, Elegies, Sonnets, &c. by Robert Southey

Do not make sport of the innocent, the pure, which is so far removed from every earthly impression!”
— from O. T., A Danish Romance by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen