murmur'd I hear, Labial gossip of night, sibilant chorals, Footsteps gently ascending, mystical breezes wafted soft and low, Ripples of unseen rivers, tides of a current flowing, forever flowing, (Or is it the plashing of tears?
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

An hour’s chat at the door with a pretty girl one never saw before, is easily obtained, and is very pleasant.
— from The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain

From the former is descended the group of Northern scripts which gradually prevailed in all the Aryan dialects of India.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

[“He delivered over the country to the Gola, or natural son, of Pithow Ray” (Briggs’ trans. i. 128).]
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

Though not altogether so blooming as when she first tripped into our story,—for, in the few intervening weeks, her experiences had made her graver, more womanly, and deeper-eyed, in token of a heart that had begun to suspect its depths,—still there was the quiet glow of natural sunshine over her.
— from The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Let it be never so good, or never so bad,” cried Madame Duval, “you won’t see nothing of it, I promise you; so pray don’t let me hear no more of such vulgar pieces of fun; for, I assure you, I don’t like it.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

You often understand the true connection of important events in your life not while they are going on, nor soon after they are past, but only a considerable time afterwards.
— 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.

Much finer ones exist, showing the colors of the first order with one dark band; and fibers so fine as to correspond to the white or even the gray of Newton's scale are easily produced.
— from Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various

The governor general added a word to the intimation of the lieutenant governor of Nova Scotia, and it was settled that legislation would be introduced into the New Brunswick legislature in accordance with the terms agreed upon.
— from The History of the Post Office in British North America by William Smith

No. 7 is the house of Adam Krafft, the greatest of Nuremberg sculptors (1430-1507).
— from The Story of Nuremberg by Cecil Headlam

"Well den, Luce, my conchenshus 'pinion ob de whole matter am dat we won't go on no scursions." PAT AND THE FOX.
— from The Universal Reciter 81 Choice Pieces of Rare Poetical Gems by Various

Ten foreign stamps, gold ore, nickel salts, and a Florida sea-bean, for an Indian stone tomahawk.
— from Harper's Young People, May 17, 1881 An Illustrated Weekly by Various