There she was welcomed, with the utmost delight, by her father, who had been trembling for the dangers of a solitary drive from Vicarage Lane—turning a corner which he could never bear to think of—and in strange hands—a mere common coachman—no James; and there it seemed as if her return only were wanted to make every thing go well: for Mr. John Knightley, ashamed of his ill-humour, was now all kindness and attention; and so particularly solicitous for the comfort of her father, as to seem—if not quite ready to join him in a basin of gruel—perfectly sensible of its being exceedingly wholesome; and the day was concluding in peace and comfort to all their little party, except herself.—But her mind had never been in such perturbation; and it needed a very strong effort to appear attentive and cheerful till the usual hour of separating allowed her the relief of quiet reflection.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

But that same Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies.
— from The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

I shall publish about March.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by James Boswell

Antiochum in Syriā, Ptolemaeum in Alexandrīā esse , L. 42, 26, 7. that Antiochus was in Syria, Ptolemy at Alexandria . in mōnte Albānō Lāvīniōque , L. 5, 52, 8, on the Alban mount and at Lavinium .
— from A Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges by George Martin Lane

The country bordering on the coast, called the Tell , is generally hilly, with fertile valleys; in some places a flat and fertile plain extends between the hills and the sea.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

I suppose Uncle Lovell will be back by tomorrow night, and with Granny improving so much it doesn't seem right to ask Newland to give up an important engagement for the firm—does it?" She paused, as if for an answer, and Mrs. Welland hastily declared: "Oh, of course not, darling.
— from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

To suppose that marriages are contracted between the Gods, and that, during so long a period, there should have been no issue 22 from them, that some of them should be old and always grey-headed and others young and like children, some of a dark, complexion, winged, lame, produced from eggs, living and dying on alternate days, is sufficiently puerile and foolish.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

And there is something pathetic and beautiful about it, too.
— from The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead Wilson by Mark Twain

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe, who set them on, And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other prey, but that he knows His end with mine involved, and knows that I Should prove a bitter morsel, and his bane, Whenever that shall be: so Fate pronounced.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

Unfriendly and barren lands, where the product does; not repay the labour, should remain desert and uncultivated, or peopled only by savages; lands where men's labour brings in no more than the exact minimum necessary to subsistence should be inhabited by barbarous peoples: in such places all polity is impossible.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A popular poem was composed, 212 said to be by one Macaber, which name seems to be a corruption of St. Macaire; the old Gaulish version, reformed, is still printed at Troyes, in France, with the ancient blocks of woodcuts, under the title of “La Grande Danse Macabre des Hommes et des Femmes.”
— from Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli

I speak plainly and without equivocation.
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley

Most prominent in such pictures are the ideal checks and balances of the federal system, which may be found described, even in the most recent books, in terms substantially the same as those used in 1814 by John Adams in his letter to John Taylor.
— from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics by Woodrow Wilson

The other dogs were the mongrels that are found in such plentifulness about every Southern house—increasing, as a rule, in numbers as the inhabitant of the house is lower down and poorer.
— from Andersonville: A Story of Rebel Military Prisons by John McElroy

Mahomedans, in opulent circumstances, and especially those of rank, generally have baths lined with marble, or with masonry, in some private apartments, to which their families can have immediate access.
— from The East India Vade-Mecum, Volume 1 (of 2) or, complete guide to gentlemen intended for the civil, military, or naval service of the East India Company. by Thomas Williamson

Quartz is sometimes present, and when this mineral becomes an essential it gives rise to a variety called quartz-andesite or dacite .
— from Volcanoes: Past and Present by Edward Hull

But oftentimes his ennui led him to Paris, to join in supper parties and debauchery.
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

“I shall preface any explanation of it with the announcement that the drug habit is not a mental state, but a physical condition.
— from The Delinquent (Vol. IV, No. 3, March 1914) by Various