Now, this conclusion (which is that of the story as we have it upon record) is, no doubt, excessively proper and pleasant—but alas!
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

This is not death: each prince will break The spell that holds him, and awake; Nor long shall numbing magic bind The mighty arm, the lofty mind.”
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

[18] The geographical position of the sources of White River is accurately given in the text, but the statement is surprising, that "the average direction of its course is nearly due east parallel to the Arkansas."
— from James's Account of S. H. Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, part 4 by Thomas Say

As opportunities arise, the Chief of Mission in Iraq should have the authority to fund quick-disbursing projects to promote national reconciliation, as well as to rescind funding from programs and projects in which the government of Iraq is not demonstrating effective partnership.
— from The Iraq Study Group Report by Iraq Study Group (U.S.)

If he 'falls into languishment,' as does the Fisher King in Perlesvaus, the land and its inhabitants will suffer correspondingly; not only will the country suffer from drought, "Nus prčs n'i raverdia," but the men will die in numbers: "Dames en perdront lor maris" we may say; the cattle will cease to bear increase: "Ne se n'i ot beste faon," and the people take drastic steps to bring about a rejuvenation; the old King dies, to be replaced by a young and vigorous successor, even as Brons was replaced by Perceval.
— from From Ritual to Romance by Jessie L. (Jessie Laidlay) Weston

It bruk the plate, o’ course, but then I didn’t keer fer that, Fer I never did eat plates, you know, ’N the pie was big and fat.
— from A Troublesome Flock: A Mother Goose Play for Children by Elizabeth F. (Elizabeth Frances) Guptill

Locke’s Essay on the Human Understanding is, however, a work from which I never derived either pleasure or profit; and Hobbes, dry and powerful as he is, I did not read till long afterwards.
— from Hazlitt on English Literature: An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature by William Hazlitt

It is not developing enough power to keep us driving against the storm.
— from The Boy Aviators' Treasure Quest; Or, The Golden Galleon by John Henry Goldfrap

What he tells us of Severian, and which he swears he heard from those who were eye-witnesses of it, is no doubt extremely probable; that he did not choose to drink poison, or to hang himself, but was resolved to find out some new and tragical way of dying; that accordingly, having some large cups of very fine glass, as soon as he had taken the resolution to finish himself, he broke one of them in pieces, and with a fragment of it cut his throat; he would not make use of sword or spear, that his death might be more noble and heroic.
— from Trips to the Moon by of Samosata Lucian

There is no deity, except perhaps Dionysus, of whom the position and estimation in Homer are so vividly contrasted with those, to which he or she attained in later paganism, as Venus.
— from Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 2 of 3 Olympus; or, the Religion of the Homeric Age by W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone

am I not doing everything possible for you.
— from The Drunkard by Guy Thorne