The old woman listened, and forgot to be fretful, unconsciously subject to the soothing influence of Dinah's face and voice.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

[35] nor the lust of Venus be repelled by none but Saturn; but I am not of opinion this is done this way, and my reason is, because these vapours though in quality melancholy, yet by their flying upward, seem to be something aerial; therefore I rather think it is done by antipathy; Saturn being exalted in Libra, in the house of Venus.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

My family received me with as much joy as I felt upon seeing them once more.
— from The Arabian Nights Entertainments by Andrew Lang

And also he sware to be good friend unto Sir Tristram if ever he came into Cornwall.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

The falling deluge whelms the hero round: His loaded shield bends to the rushing tide; His feet, upborne, scarce the strong flood divide, Sliddering, and staggering.
— from The Iliad by Homer

A certain power of abstraction , of deliberate turning away from the habitual responses to a situation, was required before men could be emancipated to follow up suggestions that in the end are fruitful.
— from How We Think by John Dewey

Preface Pardon, gentles all, The flat unraised spirit that hath dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

This effort,—and the feeling of the unattainability of the Idea by means of the Imagination,—is itself a presentation of the subjective purposiveness of our mind in the employment of the Imagination for its supersensible destination; and forces us, subjectively, to think nature itself in its totality as a presentation of something supersensible, without being able objectively to arrive at this presentation.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

It is strange enough too, to see an honourable gentleman leaning back in his tilted chair with his legs on the desk before him, shaping a convenient ‘plug’ with his penknife, and when it is quite ready for use, shooting the old one from his mouth, as from a pop-gun, and clapping the new one in its place.
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The four uncles said to her, “Will you let us ask you two questions, first the first question and second the second question?” 21 Then the uncles asked her the first question first 23 “I will let you ask me fifty questions this morning, fifty questions to-morrow morning, and fifty questions any morning.
— from Rootabaga Stories by Carl Sandburg

The marshals and generals in full uniform surrounded the group; in the midst stood the emperor, whose face was sadder to-day than usual; at his side was Staps, with his gentle countenance and radiant look turned toward heaven, his right hand resting in that of the physician, who marked every pulsation with profound attention.
— from Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

Still ye make of love the utmost end and scope of all your art; And, more blind than he you write of, note not what a modest part Loving now may claim in living, when we have scant time to spare, Who are plundering the sea-depths, taking tribute of the air,— Whilst the sun makes pictures for us; since to-day, for good or ill, Earth and sky and sea are harnessed, and the lightnings work our will.
— from The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell

“If all goes well look for us some time before sunset.
— from The Outdoor Chums on the Lake; Or, Lively Adventures on Wildcat Island by Quincy Allen

June 26—First U. S. troops arrive in France.
— from The Style Book of The Detroit News by Detroit news

Robin, have you forgot that necklace you and Pevensey took from Umfraville some three years ago—before you went into Russia?" Calverley laughed.
— from The Certain Hour (Dizain des Poëtes) by James Branch Cabell

The sunless sky turned yellow, the sea to brass; and before the six English ships could find shelter, a hurricane broke that flailed the fleet under sails torn to tatters clear across the Gulf of Mexico to Vera Cruz, the stronghold of Spanish power.
— from Vikings of the Pacific The Adventures of the Explorers who Came from the West, Eastward by Agnes C. Laut

Luckily, as it at first seemed, for the captives, their march was not a long one; for upon surmounting the crest of the pass they found themselves only a short two miles from a native village, the inhabitants of which no sooner perceived the approach of the party than they turned out and greeted it with songs and dances of rejoicing, the fervour of which became almost frantic when, a little later, the presence of the two white men became known.
— from In Search of El Dorado by Harry Collingwood