All in all, however, no beauty, no South, nothing of the delicate southern clearness of the sky, nothing of grace, no dance, hardly a will to logic; a certain clumsiness even, which is also emphasized, as though the artist wished to say to us: "It is part of my intention"; a cumbersome drapery, something arbitrarily barbaric and ceremonious, a flirring of learned and venerable conceits and witticisms; something German in the best and worst sense of the word, something in the German style, manifold, formless, and inexhaustible; a certain German potency and super-plenitude of soul, which is not afraid to hide itself under the RAFFINEMENTS of decadence—which, perhaps, feels itself most at ease there; a real, genuine token of the German soul, which is at the same time young and aged, too ripe and yet still too rich in futurity.
— from Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

—The American generals now determined upon a strategic campaign.
— from A History of the Philippines by David P. Barrows

It became the see of a bishop in 678 when the great northern diocese was subdivided by Theodore ( v. IV, 12 ).
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

It was his custom to fish with a golden net, drawn by silken cords of purple and scarlet.
— from The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Complete by Suetonius

‘When I was your age, young Tom,’ said Bounderby, ‘I was punctual, or I got no dinner!’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

The presence of the gypsies, and the use of the word ‘band,’ which was used by the poor girl, no doubt to explain the appearance which she had caught a hurried glimpse of by the light of her match, were sufficient to put me upon an entirely wrong scent.
— from Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Illustrated by Arthur Conan Doyle

Junius saw the Carthaginian fleet from a considerable distance, and observing their great numbers did not dare to engage them, and yet found it impossible to avoid them by flight because they were now too close.
— from The Histories of Polybius, Vol. 1 (of 2) by Polybius

I am not afraid of ghosts, nor do I believe in the supernatural.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

We see by a man's face that he is sincere, though we can give no definite reason for our faith.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

Engaged to a very nice girl, named Delia.
— from The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

There is an inexplicable element in these predictions, but they have been found elsewhere, outside Israel, in times of great national danger or expectation.
— from The Evolution of Old Testament Religion by W. E. (William Edwin) Orchard

Nevertheless, young girls of every class are granted now disastrous latitudes of thought and action.
— from Feminism and Sex-Extinction by Arabella Kenealy

‘Good night, dear papa.
— from Eve: A Novel by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

But she gave no description of Maybelle, and mentioned her name as little as possible.
— from Ruth Erskine's Son by Pansy

I could get no definite confirmation of the story, though it was repeated again and again.
— from Ox-Team Days on the Oregon Trail by Howard R. (Howard Roscoe) Driggs

No se había bañado desde hacía mucho tiempo, y tenía gran necesidad de ello, porque el Corán manda a los creyentes de Mahoma bañarse frecuentemente en agua limpia.
— from A First Spanish Reader by Erwin W. (Erwin William) Roessler

The performance was regulated to the least gesture; no detail was unstudied; and every moment was beautiful; not a few were sublime.
— from Paris Nights, and Other Impressions of Places and People by Arnold Bennett

"Good night, Delilah," he whispered.
— from Manslaughter by Alice Duer Miller

It was a short paragraph; it gave no details; it was the merest summary; and Durrance read it through between the puffs of his cigar.
— from The Four Feathers by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason