Forgive me, Valentine; if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence, I tender 't here; I do as truly suffer As e'er I did commit.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Valentine: if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient Ransome for offence, I tender't heere: I doe as truely suffer, As ere I did commit Val.
— from The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare

Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow V. 4. 75 Be a sufficient ransom for offence, 153 I tender ’t here; I do as truly suffer As e’er I did commit.
— from Two Gentlemen of Verona The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by William Shakespeare

On being carried out of the house, however, and laid near his antagonist in the plantation, he immediately darted at the snake, and soon destroyed it.
— from A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals by Percy J. Billinghurst

He is declaiming against the senatorial aristocrats lurking in the proposed Constitution.
— from The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

[177] He wishes to express the very simple thought that music cannot communicate definite images and judgments, but merely feelings of a general character; and for this purpose devises the following rigmarole (p. 88): ‘It is never able ... of itself alone to bring the human individual, determined as to sensation and morals, to an exactly perceptible, distinctive representation; it is in its infinite involution always and only feeling; it appears as an accompaniment of the moral deed, not as the deed itself ; it can place feelings and dispositions side by side, not develop in necessary sequence one disposition from another; it is lacking in moral will ’
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

Bernick: I have no doubt he is down at the shore again.
— from Pillars of Society by Henrik Ibsen

This was the supreme effort of human intellect directed against the steel armor of Justice.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

In the mode of forcing fruits and management of the kitchen garden department, the English gardener will find but little abroad superior to what he is daily accustomed to see at home.
— from Journal of a Horticultural Tour through Germany, Belgium, and part of France, in the Autumn of 1835 To which is added, a Catalogue of the different Species of Cacteæ in the Gardens at Woburn Abbey. by James Forbes