The immovable rock, with its juts and warped surface, bends beneath my fingers into all manner of grooves and hollows.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

If then we call the sight of the starry heaven sublime , we must not place at the basis of our judgement concepts of worlds inhabited by rational beings, and regard the bright points, with which we see the space above us filled, as their suns moving in circles purposively fixed with reference to them; but we must regard it, just as we see it, as a distant, all-embracing vault.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

We sail in June and we shall send you the key, and leave all in order for you to take possession when you choose.
— from Anne of the Island by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Perhaps this is just as well: some authors might object to being remembered.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

He more than once laughs at the passing and half-fictitious melancholy of youth and love; in Don John in Much Ado he had sketched the sour and surly melancholy of discontent; in Jaques a whimsical self-pleasing melancholy; in Antonio in the Merchant of Venice a quiet but deep melancholy, for which neither the victim nor his friends can assign any cause.
— from Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth by A. C. (Andrew Cecil) Bradley

When he went to England he said he would be back in Venice in July, and we shall just catch him on the point of departure.”
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[1090] “Who will show us the Church,” he asks, “seeing that she is hidden in the spirit and is only believed in, just as we say: ‘I believe in one Holy Church.’”
— from Luther, vol. 6 of 6 by Hartmann Grisar

Lamb's visit to Stowey was made in July, as we shall see.
— from The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 by Charles Lamb

Oh, mayn’t I just as well say the depths of the sea?
— from Degeneration by Max Simon Nordau

In the memorandum of Messrs. Miller and Auchincloss no suggestion of a Court of International Justice appears, which seems to indicate that the provision in the revised draft did not originate with them or with Colonel House.
— from The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative by Robert Lansing

I can make it just about when spring breaks, and I'll start over again.”
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan

And every time the cow jumped over the moon, as cows will, I jumped as well, so as always to be on the other side of the moon to the cow.
— from Twos and Threes by G. B. (Gladys Bronwyn) Stern

There isn’t a house on any of those islands.” “Joseph Anthony was saying that he might maybe have a tent with him and be sleeping in it the same as the tinkers would.
— from Priscilla's Spies by George A. Birmingham