The red of his roses has remained unchanged by years, while the roses of other painters have become violet or faded altogether.
— from The Old Masters and Their Pictures, For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art by Sarah Tytler

For the divine goodness added to these regions the pleasure that the message of your sublime humility reached us before your baptism.
— from The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

If you will make him go backward, throw back your own Body, your Hand will go with it, and you will make the Horse obey by a single Turn of the Waist.—Would you have him go forward, for this purpose put your Body back, but in a less degree; don't press the Horse's Fore-parts with your Weight, because by leaning a little back you will be able to approach your Legs to his Sides with greater Ease.—If your Horse rises up, bend your Body forward; if he kicks, leaps, or strikes out behind, throw your Body back; if he gallops when he should not, oppose all his Motions, and for this purpose push your Waist forward towards the Pummel of the Saddle, making a Bend or Hollow at the same time in your Loins:
— from A New System of Horsemanship by Claude Bourgelat

My past pain has risen up before your mind, and the misery from which you rescued me has been my protection.
— from The Works of Balzac: A linked index to all Project Gutenberg editions by Honoré de Balzac

“The old ruffian does all he can to cheer the declining years of your father, whom you have rendered unhappy by your conduct.” “My misery would not be complete without your contumely,” sobbed Rudolf.
— from Major Frank by A. L. G. (Anna Louisa Geertruida) Bosboom-Toussaint

I will bring him on here, or I will stay with him there until help reaches us; but you must obey what I say and wait for us.
— from Janet of the Dunes by Harriet T. (Harriet Theresa) Comstock

If you take a frog and cut it into three pieces—say, the head for one piece, the fore legs and shoulder for another, and the hind legs for a third—and then irritate any one of these pieces, you will find it move much as it would have moved under like irritation if the animal had remained undivided, but you will no longer find any concert between the movements of the three pieces; that is to say, if you irritate the head, the other two pieces will remain quiet, and if you irritate the hind legs, you will excite no action in the fore legs or head.
— from Life and Habit by Samuel Butler

How else could it happen that our flesh and blood, which we are employing in the service of our master, have remained unnoticed by you, but you form the desire of offering your own, while our bodies are entire and available?'
— from The Gâtakamâlâ; Or, Garland of Birth-Stories by Aryasura