Even as it was, my hair stood on end, while I gazed afar down within the yawning abysses, letting imagination descend, as it were, and stalk about in the strange vaulted halls, and ruddy gulfs, and red ghastly chasms of the hideous and unfathomable fire.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

I know what Ill do Ill go about rather gay not too much singing a bit now and then mi fa pieta Masetto then Ill start dressing myself to go out presto non son piu forte Ill put on my best shift and drawers let him have a good eyeful out of that to make his micky stand for him Ill let him know if thats what he wanted that his wife is fucked
— from Ulysses by James Joyce

“I suppose you’ve gone and refused Gilbert Blythe.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

These mansions stand in the center of large grounds, and rise, garlanded with roses, out of the midst of swelling masses of shining green foliage and many-colored blossoms.
— from Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain

By hunger, that each other Creature tames, Thou art not to be harm'd, therefore not mov'd; Thy temperance invincible besides, For no allurement yields to appetite, And all thy heart is set on high designs, 410 High actions: but wherewith to be atchiev'd? Great acts require great means of enterprise, Thou art unknown, unfriended, low of birth, A Carpenter thy Father known, thy self Bred up in poverty and streights at home; Lost in a Desert here and hunger-bit: Which way or from what hope dost thou aspire To greatness?
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

In the meantime Aunt Gillenormand, a rather good-hearted person at bottom in difficulties, had finally hunted up Marius’ abode.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[Sidenote:1123a] and of private ones such as come but once for all, marriage to wit, and things of that kind; and any occasion which engages the interest of the community in general, or of those who are in power; and what concerns receiving and despatching strangers; and gifts, and repaying gifts: because the Magnificent man is not apt to spend upon himself but on the public good, and gifts are pretty much in the same case as dedicatory offerings.
— from The Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle

The grandmother thought she ought to have prepared foreign food, but the clever girl of sixteen had spoken for home food, and so we thanked them for giving that to us, as we seldom get a real genuine Japanese meal.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

So Guildenstern and Rosencrantz go to’t.
— from Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

By two nouns combined, one with an unchanging case ending, the other with full inflections: as, aquae-ductus , aqueduct ; senātūs-cōnsultum , decree of the senate ; pater-familiās , father of a family ; vērī-similis , like the truth ; in these words, aquae , senātūs , familiās , and vērī are genitives, and remain genitives, while the other part of the compound is declinable.
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

While the active head of his great and rapidly growing institution, he was also the generally accepted leader of his race.
— from Booker T. Washington, Builder of a Civilization by Lyman Beecher Stowe

Reformation is entirely negative against abuses, and only removes what obstructs the path; but a revolution, {66} by means of which all that was formerly good (and really good) is no longer to continue, is to me the most intolerable of all things, and is, in fact, only a fashion.
— from Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

This agrees with the representation given by the apostle; who describes the enemies of God as refusing graves to his slaughtered witnesses, and causing their dead bodies to lie exposed to public view, that they may rejoice over them, and congratulate one another on their deliverance from the company of those who had disturbed them in their sinful indulgences; and such as continuing to be the state of "the people, and kindreds, and tongues, and nations," till the witnesses are raised from the dead and ascend to heaven in the presence of their enemies; when Christianity will revive, and Christ's reign on earth begin.
— from Sermons on Various Important Subjects Written Partly on Sundry of the More Difficult Passages in the Sacred Volume by Andrew Lee

My Lords, I hope this was a good and reasonable ground for me to anticipate the defence which Mr. Hastings would make in this House,—namely, on the known, recognized, infamous character of Nundcomar, with regard to certain proceedings there charged at large, with regard to one forgery for which he suffered and two other forgeries with which Mr. Hastings charged him.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

No sadder event has occurred in the history of English royalty than this premature and much-mourned death of the good and really great Prince Consort.
— from The Life of King Edward VII with a sketch of the career of King George V by J. Castell (John Castell) Hopkins

See Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography , art.
— from The Ignatian Epistles Entirely Spurious: A Reply to the Right Rev. Dr. Lightfoot by W. D. (William Dool) Killen

I am very sure that such honourable gentlemen as my lord the earl and yourself, would not undertake any thing but upon good and reasonable grounds; but, hoping that you will pardon my boldness in saying so much, yet I cannot imagine that I have any other than a straightforward duty to perform--namely, when my master sends me for any sum of money, or other valuable thing, to hasten to give it up into his hands as soon as I have received it; which I would certainly do, in case he should send me up to London, although I do not think it probable he will.
— from Delaware; or, The Ruined Family. Vol. 1 by G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford) James

Of all who give and receive gifts, such as they are wisest.
— from Junior High School Literature, Book 1 by William H. (William Harris) Elson