With a great effort he tried to return to life and to see things from their point of view.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

I started out with a prejudice to the contrary, and have been surprised to learn how little grabbing England has actually done here.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

to the present time, dating from the end of the eighteenth century, gold embroidery has been almost exclusively confined to those who made it a profession; amateurs have seldom attempted what, it was commonly supposed, required an apprenticeship of nine years to attain any proficiency in.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

His small, lively gray eyes had a fearless look, and often glowed with feeling.
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

First, It might always be known with great exactness, how far the price of such a commodity could be enhanced by such a tax; but how far the general enhancement of the price of labour might affect that of every different commodity about which labour was employed, could never be known with any tolerable exactness.
— from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

I gathered enough, however, to know that it was astonished at my wishing to remain alive under such circumstances.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

She regarded him gravely, his intent green eyes, his mouth, that to her thirteen-year-old, arrow-collar taste was the quintessence of romance.
— from This Side of Paradise by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

Having read it twice by a great effort, he turns it down so that it shall not be seen and lies moaning.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture.
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

J. C. L. Gieseler, Ecclesiastical History (Eng. tr. 1853), esp.
— from Mediæval Heresy & the Inquisition by Arthur Stanley Turberville

At the same time it is undeniable that to secure grayling, especially heavy ones, by this manner of angling requires great alertness, and, as it were, sympathy of touch in hooking them.
— from Chats on Angling by H. V. Hart-Davis

Chop-chop means "very fast;" maskee , "don't mind;" Topside Galah , " Excelsior, hurrah!
— from Across America; Or, The Great West and the Pacific Coast by James Fowler Rusling

Practical Bearings of General European History.
— from The Life of a Conspirator Being a Biography of Sir Everard Digby by One of His Descendants by Thomas Longueville

With Terry gone, Eileen had put off her sulkiness.
— from Love of Brothers by Katharine Tynan

On the way home, Mr. Gallilee encountered his wife’s maid.
— from Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

Svmmè præpotens Deus, immensæ huius totius nostri mundi molis fabricator et Rector, qui solus perscrutaris intimos cordis nostri sensus, et ad fundum vsque nostrarum cogitationem explorando penetras, ac in eis, quid verè, et ex ammo cogitemus, et quæ sint actionum nostrarum rationes, ac fundamenta, cognoscis: Tu, qui ea, quæ in te est, ab omni æternitate præscientia, vides, quòd nec aliqua viciscendi malitiosa cupiditas, nec iniuriarum referendarum desiderium, nec sanguinis effundendi sitis, nec alicuius lucri, quæstusue auiditas ad istam classem præparandam, et emittendam nos commouerit: sed potiùs, quòd prouida quædam cura, solérsque vigilantia huc nos impulerit: ne vel inimicorum nostrorum neglectus, vel status nostri firmitaris nimium secura cogitatio, aut illis gloriam et honorem, aut nobis damnum et periculum pariat:
— from The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain by Richard Hakluyt

" I returned to Philadelphia on the afternoon of the 17th, but before leaving my hotel in New York, informed one of the proprietors that I intended being in that city on the week of the anniversaries of the Religious and Benevolent Institutions; that as I took a lively interest in the anti-slavery question, it was probable some of my friends among the people of color would call upon me, and that if he, or any of his southern customers objected to this, I would go elsewhere; he answered that he had no objection, and even intimated his belief that public opinion was undergoing a favorable change in reference to this prejudice.
— from A Visit to the United States in 1841 by Joseph Sturge