A third book was somewhat more successful; it was called A new Method of Rosicrucian Physic; by John Heydon, the servant of God and the Secretary of Nature .
— from Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds by Charles Mackay

I see where Ernani walking the bridal garden, Amid the scent of night-roses, radiant, holding his bride by the hand, Hears the infernal call, the death-pledge of the horn.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

So does the ironmongery—candle-boxes, and gridirons, and that sort of necessaries—because those things tell, and mount up.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

In me is the spirit of the great Alexander, the spirit of Napoleon, of Caesar, of Shakespeare, and of the tiniest leech that swims.
— from The Sea-Gull by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

When the repast was finished, St. Foix, impatient for the moon, sauntered along the precipice, to a point, that fronted the east; but all was yet wrapt in gloom, and the silence of night was broken only by the murmuring of woods, that waved far below, or by distant thunder, and, now and then, by the faint voices of the party he had quitted.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

After the experience of 1848 and 1850, a not too despondent political observer might well have formed the conclusion that nothing less than the military overthrow of Austria could give to Germany any tolerable system of national government, or even secure to Prussia its legitimate field of action.
— from A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 by Charles Alan Fyffe

Good looking and likable, he made friends, took over the gambling concession and was soon taking over Goldfield and the state of Nevada.
— from Loafing Along Death Valley Trails: A Personal Narrative of People and Places by William Caruthers

"I ain't got any to speak of now, since my father got giddy an' went off to war."
— from Off Santiago with Sampson by James Otis

[469] of the divine incomprehensibility of the mystery of the Godhead, as the sayings of Napoleon.
— from The Boys' Book of Famous Rulers by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

He stared for a moment, did not respond to my smile, but continued in the same imperturbable monotone: "When God abstracted that seventh or ninth rib from Adam, and fashioned a woman of it, the result was, entre nous , nothing to boast of.
— from Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen

Savages utter the same thought over and over again, evidently groping after that semblance of Nirvana (or perhaps it may be better described as “hypnotic exaltation”) which the incessant repetition of that one thought, accompanied by its vibrating shadow, sound, would naturally occasion.
— from Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University by Edward MacDowell

He would have it as full, as lovely, as grand, as the sparing of nothing, not even his own son, can render it.
— from Donal Grant by George MacDonald

It seemed to Mr. Leighton that although he would much rather leave the affair alone, that Isobel was in his care, that she was a handsome, magnificent girl, and that she ought not to be offered calmly as a sort of second sacrifice to the caprices of Robin.
— from The Story Book Girls by Christina Gowans Whyte

They give what they call three days’ grace after the sixty or ninety days have expired; but they will make the borrower pay interest on the money during these three days, and if he does not return principal and interest at the appointed time, they will sell his goods; they will perhaps turn him out of his house, and take the last piece of furniture in his possession.
— from Sovereign Grace: Its Source, Its Nature and Its Effects by Dwight Lyman Moody