A gigantic irruption, like that of Krakatoa a few years ago, with the accompanying earthquakes, tidal waves, and clouds of volcanic dust, changes the face of the surrounding landscape beyond recognition, bringing down the high lands, elevating the low, making fair 123 lakes where deserts had been, and deserts where green prairies had smiled before.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

O would the gods, in love to Greece, decree But ten such sages as they grant in thee; Such wisdom soon should Priam's force destroy, And soon should fall the haughty towers of Troy!
— from The Iliad by Homer

Surely once more grows light, When, sorrowful, his child Gives him embrace and kiss: Surely once more the flame of light Wells out, and glowing into life The dead eye speaks: "My child!
— from Ecce Homo Complete Works, Volume Seventeen by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

[ 364 ] Brunhild Brunhild resembles Minerva in her martial tastes, physical appearance, and wisdom; but her anger and resentment when Sigurd forgets her for Gudrun is like the wrath of Œnone, whom Paris deserts to woo Helen.
— from Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas by H. A. (Hélène Adeline) Guerber

"My God I love Thee; not because I hope for Heaven thereby, Nor yet because, who love Thee not, must, die eternally.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

And now, when I saw those little girls, I learn the third and last truth, and I smiled the third time.”
— from What Men Live By, and Other Tales by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When all the guests were gone, I led the five sisters to the mother’s room.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

The protestants, in general, immediately left the town, and joined captain Gianavel with great satisfaction, and the few, who through weakness or fear, had abjured their faith, recanted their abjuration, and were received into the bosom of the church.
— from Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by John Foxe

Both horizontal rings are equal, whilst in the preceding Paratympanum the basal gate is larger than the mitral.
— from Report on the Radiolaria Collected by H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-1876, Second Part: Subclass Osculosa; Index Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger During the Years 1873-76, Vol. XVIII by Ernst Haeckel

During my stay at Genoa I learnt that at Reggio there lived a lady formerly in the service [254] of the d’Este family, and who had heard the mysterious journey spoken of.
— from The Memoirs of Maria Stella (Lady Newborough) by Ungern-Sternberg, Maria Stella Petronilla, Baroness

Since Colin's weel, and weel content, I hae nae mair to crave; And gin I live to keep him sae, I'm blest aboov the lave.
— from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

Like the President, the Governor influences legislation through his relations with the leaders of his party in the legislature, as well as through his power of the patronage.
— from Problems in American Democracy by Thames Williamson

“But the burning of the Globe or Playhouse on the Bankside on S. Peter’s Day cannot escape you which fell out by a peal of chambers that I know not upon what occasion, were to be used in the play, the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that covered the house, burned it to the ground in less than two hours with a dwelling house adjoining, and it was a great marvel and fair grace of God that the people had little harm having but two narrow doors to get out at.”
— from Shakespeare and the Stage With a Complete List of Theatrical Terms Used by Shakespeare in His Plays and Poems, Arranged in Alphabetical Order, & Explanatory Notes by Maurice Jonas

King Henry the fift not vnmindfull of the ciuiller Arts amongst his Martiall exployts, founded an Vniversitie at Caen in Normandie, & appointed Michael Tregury of Cornwall, for his rare gifts in learning, to bee Gouernour thereof.
— from The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew

From this gentleman I learned that the celebrated and often cited Psalter, written in the Irish language, which is mentioned in every Traveller’s Guide as the standing wonder of Cashel, is a mere fable; at least, that no such thing was ever known to exist here.
— from Tour in England, Ireland, and France, in the years 1826, 1827, 1828 and 1829. with remarks on the manners and customs of the inhabitants, and anecdotes of distiguished public characters. In a series of letters by a German Prince. by Pückler-Muskau, Hermann, Fürst von

The three ventral are attached to the terminations of the sensory nerves, and the limbs of the imago are formed as simple outgrowths of them, which as they grow in length take a spiral form.
— from The Works of Francis Maitland Balfour, Volume 2 (of 4) A Treatise on Comparative Embryology: Invertebrata by Francis M. (Francis Maitland) Balfour