I believe it was to a great extent my scruples about the introduction of this beat that prevented me from carrying out my plan just then.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

Τισισθένης Καλλικράτει τῷ παιδί. This Kallikrates (probably, in the Greek fashion, so named after his grandfather) evidently made some attempt to start on the quest, for his entry written in very faint and almost illegible uncial is, “I ceased from my going, the gods being against me.
— from She by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

Thus, with a one-rail fence the field is four miles square; a two-rail fence gives eight miles square; a three-rail fence, twelve miles square; and so on, until we find that a seven-rail fence multiplied by four gives a field of twenty-eight miles square.
— from Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney

Anyhow, compared with Germans even Methodists seem attractive to me.' "Our Junior R.C. goes on quite smoothly, in spite of the fact that Irene has come back to it—having fallen out with the Lowbridge society, I understand.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I named them, as they passed, and understood Their nature, with such knowledge God endued My sudden apprehension:
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

A man or woman who would gather strength from gymnastic exercise must set about it systematically and with a will.
— from Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden

Yet they continued to reign over the East, from the Danube to the Nile and Tigris; the Gothic and Vandal kingdoms of Italy and Africa were subverted by the arms of Justinian; and the history of the Greek emperors may still afford a long series of instructive lessons, and interesting revolutions.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Project Gutenberg Edition Martin Schub A Word from Project Gutenberg
— from Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts With 143 Illustrations by Harry B. (Harry Brandeis) Wehle

And at intervals over this brilliant stream, the bridges, with curves growing ever more slender and delicate, threw, as it were, grey bars, till there came at last a fiery jumble of houses, above which rose the towers of Notre-Dame, flaring red like torches.
— from A Love Episode by Émile Zola

Come along—we have wasted too much time already—" Like Anna Wolsky, Monsieur Wachner grudged every moment spent away from the tables.
— from The Chink in the Armour by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Stern faces grew even more set as they heard their leader thus declare himself.
— from The Pioneer Boys on the Great Lakes; or, On the Trail of the Iroquois by St. George Rathborne

He is very quiet now, and growing ever more sleepy, ay, as if some poison were numbing him all over.
— from Growth of the Soil by Knut Hamsun

As with a gaze growing ever more serene and steadfast she continued to read my thoughts, her face changed, and from the look of a shy and timid maiden it gradually took on that of a conscious goddess.
— from A Positive Romance 1898 by Edward Bellamy

The same may be said of clandestine marriages that are unequal both as to rank and fortune," for they are still more leveling in their effects; as when "a lord of good estate" marries "a taylor's or a shoemaker's daughter of good character, though not [453] worth a groat," or a "lady of quality, entitled to a good estate," marries such a man's son who is honorable but poor.
— from A History of Matrimonial Institutions, Vol. 1 of 3 by George Elliott Howard

The narratives of her god-mother of the miraculous doings of the fairies and genii impressed themselves profoundly on the imaginative spirit of Jeannette, who grew ever more serious and pensive as she approached her fourteenth year.
— from The Executioner's Knife; Or, Joan of Arc by Eugène Sue