Five days later I got out and was carried down to the hospital, and found the Expert doing pretty fairly.
— from What Is Man? and Other Essays by Mark Twain

It is a disorder which has arisen from the cure of greater disorders; it has arisen from the extreme difficulty of reconciling liberty under a monarchical government, with external strength and with internal tranquillity.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

Entering all reading-rooms and cafes, he asked for the “Echo de la Bievre,” and when informed, alas, very frequently, that the paper was unknown in this or that establishment, “It is incredible!”
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

marks a turning-point in modern history, and from this epoch dates the diffusion of a spirit of culture over Europe.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

Mr. Davitt, I dare say, when he sentimentalises in the House of Commons about his affection for the English democracy, is nearly, though not quite, as sincere as when he used to express passionate hatred of England.
— from A Leap in the Dark A Criticism of the Principles of Home Rule as Illustrated by the Bill of 1893 by Albert Venn Dicey

They are confidential exchanges of intelligence and ideas, in which the hopes and fears, the expectations, disappointments, and impressions of our ancestors are given in the very words in which they were described.
— from British Quarterly Review, American Edition, Vol. LIII January and April, 1871 by Various

In such a collection the eye is pained by the entire want of sympathy arising from jumbling together the most dissimilar kinds; from the want of robust health, and from the entire disappearance of that vivid freshness and sprightliness of growth, compact while it is rapid, which gives a charm to well managed plants.
— from Pleasant Talk About Fruits, Flowers and Farming by Henry Ward Beecher

We killed a snake at this place, not exceeding two feet in length; out of the middle of its belly grew an arm, similar to a human arm, from the elbow downwards; the whole of which was formed with the most exquisite delicacy.
— from The captivity, sufferings, and escape of James Scurry Who was detained a prisoner during ten years, in the dominions of Hyder Ali and Tippoo Saib by James Scurry

The clash of arms had roused her, and finding that every door yielded to her touch, she ran out, in eager curiosity to see whence came the sound.
— from The Tangled Skein by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness

B. C. 1525, Amosis led a revolt which expelled the Hyksos, and founded the Eighteenth Dynasty at Memphis.
— from A Manual of Ancient History by M. E. (Mary Elsie) Thalheimer

The men of Judah had anointed him, and finally the elders did so, in token of the popular confirmation of God's choice.
— from Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII by Alexander Maclaren

In India, as Jerdan informs us, they not only come boldly into the towns, but will settle down, without the slightest shyness, upon the tops of the houses, and from this elevation descend to plunder the gardens and fields in the neighbourhood.
— from Cassell's Book of Birds, Volume 1 (of 4) by Alfred Edmund Brehm