He had heard that a river leading to the North-West entered the Bay of Toronto, somewhere near its head; and he mistook the lesser for the greater stream: thus on a small scale performing the exploit accomplished by several of the explorers of the North American coast, who, under the firm persuasion that a water highway to Japan and China existed somewhere across this continent, lighted upon Baffin's Bay, Davis Strait, the Hudson River, and the St. Lawrence itself, in the course of their investigations.
— from Toronto of Old Collections and recollections illustrative of the early settlement and social life of the capital of Ontario by Henry Scadding

It is necessary that all who feel an interest in the future destinies of democratic society should unite, and that all should make joint and continual efforts to diffuse the love of the infinite, a sense of greatness, and a love of pleasures not of earth.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

To tell you all the questionings and conjectures—the fears, and hopes, and wild emotions that jostled and chased each other through my mind as I descended the hill, would almost fill a volume in itself.
— from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë

Then to the palaces of heaven she sails, Incumbent on the wings of wafting gales; The seat of gods; the regions mild of peace, Full joy, and calm eternity of ease.
— from The Odyssey by Homer

This did trouble me mightily, so though ‘elle’ would not seem to have me trouble myself about it, yet did agree to the stopping the coach at the streete’s end, and ‘je allois con elle’ home, and there presently hear by him that he had newly sent ‘su mayde’ to my house to see for her mistresse.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

In the year 1528, Cardinal Campeius was brought to the king’s presence, being then at Bridewell, whither he had called all his nobility, judges, and councillors, etc.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But if this be so, is it not clear that the facts M , taken per se , are inadequate to justify a conclusion either way in advance of my action?
— from The Will to Believe, and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy by William James

With a jealous and cautious eye, he took stock of everything successful, and examined with special care all that upon which this influence might be brought to bear.
— from Thoughts out of Season, Part I David Strauss, the Confessor and the Writer - Richard Wagner in Bayreuth. by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In the year 793 Alcuin gave good advice to the brethren at Jarrow: ‘Absconditas comessationes et furtivas ebrietates quasi foveam inferni vitate.’
— from Nineteen Centuries of Drink in England: A History by Richard Valpy French

“This here is going to be a traveling lodge of the Cadets of Temperance, especially so far as natives is concerned,” said Swiftwater Jim, “and consequently everybody will work on this voyage.”
— from The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Ralph Victor

The sense that he was a gentleman, a being she understood but imperfectly, gave Miss Jean a certain embarrassment in his presence.
— from It was a Lover and His Lass by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

His special thanks are due to James A. Campbell, Esq., LL.D., of Stracathro, for kindly revising the sheets of this volume, and for suggesting many corrections and improvements.
— from Theism; being the Baird Lecture of 1876 by Robert Flint

Ideas he had in plenty, but they seemed to jostle and confuse each other in their endeavours to settle down into a connected train of thought.
— from Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigands of Greece by Bracebridge Hemyng

When the latter came up, rather hot and dusty, the baskets were [65] taken to Johannesburg and carefully examined: the ore was found to contain a considerable quantity of gold.
— from Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker by Radziwill, Catherine, Princess

With this departure, in which Mrs. Kildair joined, a certain element of restraint disappeared.
— from The Sixty-First Second by Owen Johnson