I used to go out at dusk.
— from The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Prefixed to the work are two letters; the one to the Earl of Salisbury, the other to the University of Cambridge, which Gorges omits, and dedicates his translation to the high and illustrious princess the Lady Elizabeth of Great Britain, Duchess of Baviare, Countess Palatine of Rheine, and chief electress of the empire.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

Now you emerge for a few brief minutes on an open country, glittering with some bright lake or pool, broad as many an English river, but so small here that it scarcely has a name; now catch hasty glimpses of a distant town, with its clean white houses and their cool piazzas, its prim New England church and school-house; when whir-r-r-r!
— from American Notes by Charles Dickens

The old woman looked up just a little, then she said, "Now, my little daughter, it is time for thee to go out and do thy work."
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

[276] of a Crab, and a Perch, if there be any stone in an Ox Gall, stone in the bladder of a Man, the Jaw of a Pike or Jack, Pearls, the marrow of the Leg of a Sheep, Ox, Goat, Stag, Calf, common and virgin Honey, Musk, Mummy, a Swallow’s nest, Crabs Eyes, the Omentum or call of a Lamb, Ram, Wether, Calf, the whites, yolks, and shells of Hen’s Eggs, Emmet’s Eggs, bone of a Stag’s heart, an Ox leg, Ossepiœ, the inner skin of a Hen’s Gizzard, the wool of Hares, the feathers of Partridges, that which Bees make at the entrance of the hive, the pizzle of a Stag, of a Bull, Fox Lungs, fasting spittle, the blood of a Pigeon, of a Cat, of a he Goat, of a Hare, of a Partridge, of a Sow, of a Bull, of a Badger, of a Snail, Silk, Whey, the suet of a Bullock, of a Stag, of a he Goat, of a Sheep, of a Heifer, Spermaceti, a Bullock’s spleen, the skin a Snake hath cast off, the excrements of a Goose, of a Dog, of a Goat, of Pigeons, of a stone Horse, of a Hen, of Swallows, of a Hog, of a Heifer, the ancle of a Hare, of a Sow, Cobwebs, Water thells, as Blatta Bazantia, Buccinæ, Crabs, Cockles, Dentalis, Entalis, Mother of Pearl, Mytuli Purpuræ, Os sepiæ, Umbilious Marinus, the testicles of a Horse, a Cock, the hoof of an Elk, of an Ass, a Bullock, of a Horse, of a Lyon, the urine of a Boar, of a she Goat.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

Jewish law permitted the Jew to do business with a Gentile on a different basis than that on which he did business with a brother Jew.
— from The International Jew : The World's Foremost Problem by Anonymous

A HAPPY ENDING L YUBOV GRIGORYEVNA, a substantial, buxom lady of forty who undertook matchmaking and many other matters of which it is usual to speak only in whispers, had come to see Stytchkin, the head guard, on a day when he was off duty.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Then, the gloom around her awakening other fears, and a sense of what she considered to be her duty overcoming her reluctance, she descended to the vaults, following the echo of footsteps and the faint ray, that pierced the darkness, till the harsh grating of a distant door, that was opened to receive the corpse, again appalled her.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

This requisite of an enjoyable life is very imperfectly granted, or altogether denied, to a large part of mankind; and by its absence many a life is a failure, which is provided, in appearance, with every requisite of success.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill

“Often, after dinner on clear evenings, he would say to me: 'Let us go outside and dream, cousin.'
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

Love is often compared to a flower; but love cannot, like a flower, grow on a dunghill.
— from Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry T. Finck

He could not have got out, and did not, until I released him next morning--hours after the murder was perpetrated."
— from The Purple Fern by Fergus Hume

Cutting across the glacier Page 38 Leaving Neu Spondinig, we turned sharply to the right and into the gloom of a deep gorge, crossing the bridges of the impetuous Trafoier Bach and climbing for several kilometers to Trafoi, where a most marvelous view burst upon us.
— from Europe from a Motor Car by Russell Richardson

In no other group of animals do we meet with nearly so striking an exemplification of the truth that zoological or structural affinity is only related in a most loose and general way to psychological or mental similarity.
— from Animal Intelligence The International Scientific Series, Vol. XLIV. by George John Romanes

As these come into season, have them gathered on a dry day, and, after merely wiping them with a cloth, to free them from moisture, put them into the pickle.
— from The Book of Household Management by Mrs. (Isabella Mary) Beeton

Then came the thundering crash of another mountain of water upon her deck, accompanied by the sound of rending woodwork as the companion cover parted company and was swept away; a whole Niagara of water poured down through the opening upon my devoted head, and as I clung to the handrail with the grip of a drowning man the schooner struck a third time, with such terrific violence that I fully expected the hull to go to pieces about my ears.
— from Turned Adrift by Harry Collingwood

The letter duly arrives at the boma , and a native runner is told to go out and deliver the message.
— from In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country by John T. (John Tinney) McCutcheon

"Yes," grumbled one, "and die before we reap."
— from Toilers of Babylon: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

you may be a great or a doubtful financier, but keep rather mute on military matters.
— from Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by De Gurowski, Adam G., count