If you carry these feelings to the sister art of Painting, Michael Angelo's Sixtine Chapel, and the Scripture Gallery of Raphael can expect no favour from you.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

He is much more serious in distinguishing men from animals by their recognition of the universal which they have known in a former state, and in denying that this gift of reason can ever be obliterated or lost.
— from Phaedrus by Plato

What gift of richest clime E'er drew such eager eyes, or prompted such Deep wishes, as the zeal that snatcheth back 350 From Slander's poisonous tooth a foe's renown; Or crosseth Danger in his lion walk, A rival's life to rescue?
— from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside by Mark Akenside

By Emma Marshall, Author of "Fine Gold; or, Ravenswood Courtenay," etc.
— from How a Farthing Made a Fortune; or "Honesty is the best policy" by C. E. (Charlotte Elizabeth) Bowen

They had a lizard game of romps, chasing each other round our rock with incredible swiftness, whisking out of each other's way, and gently biting each other's tail when caught.
— from A Lady's Tour in Corsica, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Gertrude Forde

Now, having no time to lose, he would not go home this year; and he asked, in addition to the quarterly allowance, for two hundred and fifty francs, to get coached in law by a private tutor, which would be of great assistance to him; and he threw around the entire epistle a garland of regrets, condolences, expressions of endearment, and protestations of filial love.
— from Sentimental Education; Or, The History of a Young Man. Volume 1 by Gustave Flaubert

If only one small globe of rock comprised existing matter, Jery Delvin, where would it be?" "It—That's silly.
— from The Secret Martians by Jack Sharkey

It was at this time, strange to say, that a group of resolute Catholics entered the political arena and fought the battle of liberty in educational matters against the monopoly of the University.
— from The Religious Persecution in France 1900-1906 by J. Napier (Jane Napier) Brodhead

From that time, whenever the doctor came to visit my father, “‘I pluck’d his gown to share the good man’s smile’; a game of romps constantly ensued, and we were always cordial friends and merry playfellows.”
— from Oliver Goldsmith: A Biography by Washington Irving