Literature at that time, all defaced by our great and recent misfortunes, seemed to have no other interest than the consolation of our unhappy pride: it used to rhyme " gloire " with " victoire ," " guerriers " with " lauriers ," [3] etc.
— from On Love by Stendhal

It is called Gimli, and shall stand when both heaven and earth have passed away, and good and righteous men shall dwell therein for everlasting ages."
— from The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson by Snorri Sturluson

She lived then, for twenty years, on work which some fellow-countrymen of the late Poulain gave to her, and the meagre profits of which afforded her the opportunity of starting in a professional career her son, the future physician, whom she dreamed of seeing gain a rich marriage settlement.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

This behaviour on the part of Mardocheus filled me with gratitude, and reconciled me, so to speak, with the whole Jewish nation.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The want of an interesting work on Greek and Roman mythology, suitable for the requirements of both boys and girls, has long been recognized by the principals of our advanced schools.
— from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E. M. Berens

She looked so quiet and good, and reminded me so strongly of my airy fresh school days at Canterbury, and the sodden, smoky, stupid wretch I had been the other night, that, nobody being by, I yielded to my self-reproach and shame, and—in short, made a fool of myself.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

When he finds himself confronted by a sharp conflict of opinion, he seeks by careful mediation to construct a whole out of the two "half truths," though this, it is true, does not always give a result more satisfactory than the partial views which he wishes to reconcile.
— from History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg

I am too weak and feeble to resist: Assist me, sweet God, and receive my soul.
— from The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 2 (of 3) by Christopher Marlowe

Simon raised his hat respectfully to the gentlefolks, and related Miriam's story.
— from The Jews of Barnow: Stories by Karl Emil Franzos

It's quite a different game and requires more skill.
— from The Incomplete Amorist by E. (Edith) Nesbit

High above the Zoji, itself 11,500 feet in altitude, a mass of grey and red mountains, snow-slashed and snow- capped, rose in the dewy rose-flushed atmosphere in peaks, walls, pinnacles, and jagged ridges, above which towered yet loftier summits, bearing into the heavenly blue sky fields of unsullied snow alone.
— from Among the Tibetans by Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy) Bird

What made the Greek and Roman maidens so beautiful in face, figure and complexion?
— from Confidential Chats with Girls by William Lee Howard

My heart is turned to direst hate against her; All gentle thoughts, all sweet forgiving words, Are gone, and round me stand with grisly mien, The fiends of hell, and shake their snaky locks!
— from Mary Stuart: A Tragedy by Friedrich Schiller

The reader cannot have failed to observe that the characters of George Montague Greenwood and Richard Markham stand out from our picture of London Life in strong contrast with each other; and it is not the less remarkable that while the former was rising rapidly to wealth, rank, and eminence, the latter was undergoing persecutions and sinking into comparative poverty.
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 2/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds