It was only because people knew them to be so very safe, that in some cases (as she lamented to say in Mr. Nosnibor’s) they felt that their support was unnecessary.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

Soothing she answered him: 'Assuage, Mine honored friend, the fears of age; All melodies to thee are known That harp has rung or pipe has blown, In Lowland vale or Highland glen, From Tweed to Spey—what marvel, then, At times unbidden notes should rise, Confusedly bound in memory's ties,
— from The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott

The happy date In three weeks would arrive for them; The secrets of the marriage state And love's delicious diadem With rapturous longing he awaits, Nor in his dreams anticipates Hymen's embarrassments, distress, And freezing fits of weariness.
— from Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Here the close striking of the cannon balls and the bursting of shells is so frequent that the seriousness of life makes itself visible through the youthful picture of imagination.
— from On War — Volume 1 by Carl von Clausewitz

But the worst was not come yet; the storm continued with such fury that the seamen themselves acknowledged they had never seen a worse.
— from The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

The note was deep and low, as from the thickest string of a double bass; it seemed as though the darkness itself had hoarsely uttered it.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

In the second interregnum a dispute arose, because two patrician consuls were elected: and the tribunes protesting, Fabius the interrex said, that "it was a law in the twelve tables, that whatever the people ordered last should be law and in force; that the suffrages of the people were their orders."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

After some consideration, it was decided that we should go for a fortnight to the sea-side.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

" Silver-footed Thetis did as the god had told her, and forthwith down she darted from the topmost summits of Olympus.
— from The Iliad by Homer

In sacerdotal societies every element is on a more dangerous scale, not merely cures and remedies, but also pride, revenge, cunning, exaltation, love, ambition, virtue, morbidity:—further, it can fairly be stated that it is on the soil of this essentially dangerous form of human society, the sacerdotal form, that man really becomes for the first time an interesting animal , that it is in this form that the soul of man has in a higher sense attained depths and become evil —and those are the two fundamental forms of the superiority which up [Pg 29] to the present man has exhibited over every other animal.
— from The Genealogy of Morals The Complete Works, Volume Thirteen, edited by Dr. Oscar Levy. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I do say, and I'll tell it to Sir Robert's face, that there's something wrong somewhere.
— from Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One by William Carleton

"Once she realizes the fact that the ship is lost, she'll be all right."
— from Dialstone Lane, Complete by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

I found them to stain just like the intracellular parts of the flagella or like the central continuations of the axial fibers of the cells of the simple eyes.
— from Physiology and histology of the Cubomedusæ including Dr. F.S. Conant's notes on the physiology by E. W. (Edward William) Berger

“Serves him right for trying to set himself up as king.
— from The Boy Scout Explorers at Treasure Mountain by Don Palmer

After a while it was found that the swarm had finally settled there, and were proceeding to build combs and lay in a store of honey.
— from Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies

By the pure spring, whose haunted waters flow Through thy sequester’d dell unto the sea, At sunny noon, I will appear to thee: Not troubling the still fount with drops of woe, As when I last took leave of it and thee, But gazing up at thee with tranquil brow, And eyes full of life’s early happiness, Of strength, of hope, of joy, and tenderness.
— from Poems by Fanny Kemble

But as it was impossible for them to see the horse, so was it as impossible for them to see us at that distance, who sat down on the ground to look at them the more securely.
— from The History and Remarkable Life of the Truly Honourable Colonel Jacque, Commonly Called Colonel Jack by Daniel Defoe

He easily foresaw that the specious promise of regeneration held out by impostors or fools to delude the ignorant, the credulous and the weak, would end in that universal corruption and general overthrow which we since have witnessed, and the effects of which our grandchildren will mourn.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon by Various