When Zarathustra spake these sayings, he stood nigh to the entrance of his cave; with the last words, however, he slipped away from his guests, and fled for a little while into the open air.
— from Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

“The Compleat Housewife”: “It being grown as fashionable for a book now to appear in public without a preface, as for a lady to appear at a ball without a hoop-petticoat, I shall conform to the custom for fashion-sake and not through any necessity.
— from Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius

This river rises in Germany in the heights of Mount Abnoba 2786 , opposite to Rauricum 2787 , a town of Gaul, and flows for a course of many miles beyond the Alps and through nations innumerable, under the name of the Danube.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Mounting on the breach, with his musket in one hand and his hat in the other, he said, bowing courteously and addressing the soldiers and the pioneers, who, astonished at this apparition, stopped fifty paces from the bastion: “Gentlemen, a few friends and myself are about to breakfast in this bastion.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

It loves Shade and Solitude, and naturally haunts Groves and Fountains, Fields and Meadows:
— from The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Steele, Richard, Sir

I wouldn’t give a fig for all your politics, generally, but I think this is something downright cruel and unchristian.
— from Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

[page 159] 5 My minde, neither with prides itch, nor yet hath been Poyson'd with love to see, or to bee seene, I had no suit there, nor new suite to shew, Yet went to Court; But as Glaze which did goe To'a Masse in jest, catch'd, was faine to disburse 10 The hundred markes, which is the Statutes curse; Before he scapt, So'it pleas'd my destinie (Guilty of my sin of going,) to thinke me As prone to all ill, and of good as forget- full, as proud, as lustfull, and as much in debt, 15 As vaine, as witlesse, and as false as they Which dwell at Court, for once going that way.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

On reaching the thicket wherein the deer are concealed, stakes are driven into the ground a few feet apart in a straight line, the coils are then opened out, and the rope attached to the stakes, two or three feet above the ground, with the nooses hanging down, and two of the party conceal themselves near the stakes armed with knives for the purpose of despatching the deer when entangled in the nooses.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

By living a year or two in town, she is as fond of gauze and French frippery as the best of them.
— from She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy by Oliver Goldsmith

Yes, the old man was taking his leave, when he wandered alone through garden and field, forest and meadow--leave of the friends and acquaintances of his youth: here a tree, under whose branches he had dreamed of the woman he loved; yonder a rock, against whose hard breast he had once pressed his tortured young heart; the meadow where he had broken the wild steed with which he had hoped to win the beautiful Ulrica von Dahlitz; the forest whose echoes he had so often waked by the report of his good rifle.
— from What the Swallow Sang: A Novel by Friedrich Spielhagen

He is above all an inspirer, an initiator; and if he wants one mark of the leader of a school, the foundation of certain scientific doctrines, there is in his speech what is better than all systems, the communicative power which urges a generation of disciples along the path of independent research, with Reason for guide, and Faith for aim.”
— from Historical Lectures and Essays by Charles Kingsley

From the garden of the Timaeus, as from the other dialogues of Plato, we may still gather a few flowers and present them at parting to the reader.
— from Timaeus by Plato

“To Turk and Spaniard the refugee might be only Teo the Greek, a fugitive from all high courts.
— from The Flute of the Gods by Marah Ellis Ryan

But it was never easy to get away from Furst, and since Maurice had declared his intention of continuing to take lessons from him, as good as impossible.
— from Maurice Guest by Henry Handel Richardson

[Pg lxiii] was found; but, unfortunately, the artillerymen were still behind, the schooner not having been able to get up in time: and the troops were exposed to so heavy and galling a fire, from a numerous but almost invisible foe, as to render it impossible to halt for the artillery to come up.
— from Some Account of the Public Life of the Late Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. Particularly of His Services in the Canadas, Including a Reply to the Strictures on His Military Character, Contained in an Article in the Quarterly Review by E. B. Brenton

This does not consist in a single act, a single out-gushing of generous activity, but in a series of generous actions, flowing from an established principle; a principle pervading the whole soul, never wavering, never succumbing to the biddings of selfishness.
— from The Faithful Steward Or, Systematic Beneficence an Essential of Christian Character by Sereno D. (Sereno Dickenson) Clark

“Tis no secret o' gravity, Ned Garvice, that you give orders to your boys to carry you down in the cool o' the evening when you feel your hour's at hand, and lay ye out trim and tidy for the flood-tide, so that ye get a free funeral, and Parson Rodney's 'Earth t' earth' thrown into the bargain,” said Wise.
— from The Love That Prevailed by Frank Frankfort Moore

I ain't seed it 'fore, but when Marster Williams says, 'Git up on de block,' I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves. Texas Narratives, Part 2 by United States. Work Projects Administration