It is now bright; when it is red, it shall be buried.”
— from The Last of the Mohicans; A narrative of 1757 by James Fenimore Cooper

Imitation may come in but its role is subordinate.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

It really is so--of course it is!
— from A Doll's House : a play by Henrik Ibsen

"I beg your pardon," I said, "but am I right in supposing that you are going to Blackwater Park?" "Yes, ma'am.
— from The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

It blossoms early before the leaves come forth, and the fruit is ripe in September.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The need of hostility, cruelty, revenge, and violence is reverted, "it steps backwards"; in the thirst for knowledge there lurks both the lust of gain and of conquest; in the artist, the powers of dissimulation and falsehood find their scope; the instincts are thus transformed into demons with whom a fight takes place, etc.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

That is why I retire into solitude in order that I may not have to drink from the common cisterns.
— from The Dawn of Day by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

It is related in some of the old books that Philip has upstairs that one of the women of the Callender family, before the Revolution, felt it her duty to go through the streets of Newport, crying, 'Repent, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.'
— from The Faith Doctor: A Story of New York by Edward Eggleston

On the other hand, if the mass of the sodium sulphate in the solution be great, then the barium carbonate is reconverted into sulphate until a definite state of equilibrium is attained between the two opposite reactions, producing barium carbonate by the action of the sodium carbonate and barium sulphate by the action of the sodium sulphate.
— from The Principles of Chemistry, Volume I by Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev

Suddenly the escort (which had all at once increased from two to eight men, which Captain Elliot pointed out to me, and I replied, 'I suppose they are determined we shall not escape, which they need not be afraid of, as we are too keen to get over the border') wheeled sharp down to the river, stopped, and pointing to the banks, said, 'There is the drift; cross.'
— from South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 1 (of 8) From the Foundation of Cape Colony to the Boer Ultimatum of 9th Oct. 1899 by Louis Creswicke

They were hungry and in rags; I said, "Boys, you are in a bad fix."
— from Memoirs of a Veteran Who Served as a Private in the 60's in the War Between the States Personal Incidents, Experiences and Observations by I. (Isaac) Hermann

So the psalm springs up at once from these thoughts of the helplessness of mortal man, to hymn the blessedness of trust set upon the undying God, like a song-bird from its lair in a grave-yard, which pours its glad notes above the grassy mounds, as it rises in spirals towards the blue, and at each gives forth a more exultant burst of music.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Psalms, Vol. 3 Psalms XC.-CL. by Alexander Maclaren

The Prophet Isaiah represents inward Sanctification in the Similitude of being purged from that which is Fuel for Fire; and particularly describes the outward Fruits, brought forth by those who dwell in this inward Holiness; They walk righteously, and speak uprightly.
— from The Journal, with Other Writings of John Woolman by John Woolman

Was it that, instead of heaping the earth over the sepulchral chamber, they cleared it away and arranged it round it, so as to give it dignity?
— from Rude Stone Monuments in All Countries: Their Age and Uses by James Fergusson

When these two ships arrived at Tercera and did not find the fleet, they immediately returned in search of it.
— from A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 07 by Robert Kerr