We glow, we are consumed with eagerness to commence the work, with the anticipation of whose glorious result our whole souls are on fire.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Hence we find, among the General Regulations, one which sets forth this principle in the following words: "The Grand Master should not receive any private intimations of business, concerning Masons and Masonry, but from his Deputy first, except in such cases as his worship can easily judge of; and if the application to the Grand Master be irregular, his worship can order the Grand Wardens, or any other so applying, to wait upon the Deputy, who is immediately to prepare the business, and to lay it orderly before his worship."
— from The Principles of Masonic Law A Treatise on the Constitutional Laws, Usages and Landmarks of Freemasonry by Albert Gallatin Mackey

3 Now that the White Bishop has been driven back, Black wants to get rid of White's strongly posted Knight at Q 5, which blocks the attack of the Bishop at B 2.
— from Chess Fundamentals by José Raúl Capablanca

You can see by that whether I guess right or wrong,” said Stepan Arkadyevitch, gazing at Levin with a subtle smile.
— from Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

It is located on the site of the Baths of Diocletian, the great ruins of which surround it in the most uncanny way.
— from Italy, the Magic Land by Lilian Whiting

A great round one was sent me 264 by Roostem through my interpreter, one very hot day, with the following message: ‘He hoped I should like a fruit which suited the season; there was no better antidote for the heat; but he wished me also to know that at Buda and Belgrade they had great store of such fruit, and indeed some larger specimens of it,’ by which he meant cannon balls.
— from The Life and Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq, Volumes 1 and 2 by Ogier Ghislain de Busbecq

The woman dropped into thought an instant, with her eyes on the ground; a shade of sadness came to her face, and she murmured regretfully: "Indeed, how he must have changed: one so passionate, so suspicious, so"—— She started and looked up, keenly regarding Agnes Barker, as if angry that these broken thoughts were overheard—angry in vain, for the gentle reminiscences of which she was ashamed had trembled away from her lips in a deep sigh; and Agnes only saw a look of tender trouble, where suspicion and anger had been a moment before.
— from Mabel's Mistake by Ann S. (Ann Sophia) Stephens

It was a good resolve, one which she would have carried out; but just then she recoiled, and her heart began to beat painfully, while the blood forsook her cheeks.
— from A Double Knot by George Manville Fenn

But come; we must go and report your arrival to that same graceless ruler, or we shall all be punished."
— from John Dough and the Cherub by L. Frank (Lyman Frank) Baum

The one girl stood erectly in the skiff, her hand resting on the rudder; she looked in curious expectance at the persistent pursuer, while the other girl rowed on with stolid indifference.
— from Withered Leaves: A Novel. Vol. I. (of III) by Rudolf von Gottschall

Mathematics, the great rock on which so many aspiring men were wrecked, was apparently a pastime with him.
— from History of Randolph-Macon College, Virginia The Oldest Incorporated Methodist College in America by Richard Irby

The general read on without speaking, till he came to the mention of Helen’s original promise of living with the Collingwoods.
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 10 Helen by Maria Edgeworth

The third, Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (No. 106), was composed, Spitta conjectures, 370 for the funeral of Philipp Grossgebauer, Rector of Weimar School, in 1711.
— from Johann Sebastian Bach: His Life, Art, and Work by Johann Nikolaus Forkel