I thought how the same feeling had come back when I saw a face looking at me, and a hand waving to me from a stage-coach window; and how it had come back again and had flashed about me like lightning, when I had passed in a carriage—not alone—through a sudden glare of light in a dark street.
— from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

Whatever government is not a government of law is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The different value of Pontus, of Galatia, of Lydia, is accurately distinguished.
— 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

There was not the least glimmering of light in any direction; and the longer he thought, the more he was perplexed.
— from Rank and Talent; A Novel, Vol. 1 (of 3) by William Pitt Scargill

In 1588 the Duc de Montmorency, Governor of Languedoc, issued a decree convoking the Council-General to consider the subject, and this assembly, after a stormy session, decided that 'the noblemen and gentlemen of the province should hold the first consulate alternately with the advocates.'
— from France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889 by William Henry Hurlbert

I know which way a mind wended, what horizon it faced, by the setting of these tracks, and whether it moved slowly or rapidly, by their greater or less intervals and distinctness; for the swiftest step leaves yet a lasting trace.
— from Excursions by Henry David Thoreau

Pepper, salt, and butter liberally; pour over them a little of your soup-stock, strained through a cloth; brown in a good oven; lay in a deep dish, and pour over them the gravy thickened with browned flour, and cooked one minute.
— from The Dinner Year-Book by Marion Harland

At length, turning round to look for it, intending to go back to the camp, what was his dismay on being unable to discover the slightest glimmering of light in any direction!
— from The Frontier Fort Or, Stirring Times in the North West Territory of British America by William Henry Giles Kingston

Indeed, for the nicest observations, it is usual not to attempt to bring the clock to a state of absolute correctness, but, after bringing it as near to such a state as can conveniently be done, to ascertain how much it gains or loses in a day; that is, to ascertain the rate of its going, and to make allowance accordingly.
— from Letters on Astronomy in which the Elements of the Science are Familiarly Explained in Connection with Biographical Sketches of the Most Eminent Astronomers by Denison Olmsted

I believe in a God, and that it was ordered by Him that we, the red people, should get our living in a different way, namely: from the wild game of the woods, and the fishes of the waters.
— from An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 1750-1830 by John Niles Hubbard

p. 26 LIFE’S TRACK This game of life is a dangerous play, Each human soul must watch alway, From the first to the very last.
— from Poems of Sentiment by Ella Wheeler Wilcox