The season was mild enough to encourage the project of extending the wedding journey as far as Rome, and Mr. Casaubon was anxious for this because he wished to inspect some manuscripts in the Vatican.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

In a good Poem, whether it be Epique, or Dramatique; as also in Sonnets, Epigrams, and other Pieces, both Judgement and Fancy are required: But the Fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the Extravagancy; but ought not to displease by Indiscretion.
— from Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

Salus populi suprema lex, is certainly so just and fundamental a rule, that he, who sincerely follows it, cannot dangerously err.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

Now go back to the jeep and fetch a rope.
— from The Lani People by Jesse F. (Jesse Franklin) Bone

“Your complexion is just as fair as Ruby’s,” said Diana earnestly, “and your hair is ever so much darker than it used to be before you cut it.”
— from Anne of Green Gables by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

I find she is very cunning, and when she least shews it hath her wit at work; but it is an ill one, though I think not so bad but with good usage I might well bear with it, and the truth is I do find that my being over-solicitous and jealous and froward and ready to reproach her do make her worse.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

The hunters now hunt for this deer just as for a real deer, either following the trail or watching the woods ahead; the {292} best hunters combine the two.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America

Here I find works entirely excluded as a ground of justification, and faith alone recognized.
— from The All-Sufficiency of Christ. Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, vol. I by Charles Henry Mackintosh

Denying himself to callers, he shut himself in his office, to determine what was just and fair and right.
— from Queed: A Novel by Henry Sydnor Harrison

This style of proceeding seems common among white men, as was shown during the Zulu war; where, in spite of all that has been written about the Zulus and Boers, the English commanders acted just as foolishly and recklessly as did the captain of the little ship, and the disasters which occurred might have been avoided by any one acquainted with the Zulu style of warfare.
— from The White Chief of the Caffres by Alfred W. (Alfred Wilks) Drayson

But King John, a fierce and reckless prince with none of a general's ability, preferred to take the English by force of arms, and, when they refused to surrender to him, prepared to storm their position.
— from A History of England Eleventh Edition by Charles Oman

You must have read something that suggested it," Mrs. Thayne began, just as Fran and Roger came into the room, bursting with suppressed excitement.
— from The Spanish Chest by Edna A. Brown

HAAS, LUCIAN L. Jigs and fixtures: a reference book including wartime data supplement.
— from U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1971 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office

And the trains rush past—some slow, some fast; and now and then comes one that is just a flash and roar, and I cling to the railing for a moment till it passes, and quiver with excitement, feeling as if I must be swept away.
— from Ideala by Sarah Grand

The words were no sooner spoken, than the colour returned to her cheeks, her eyes opened, and she arose as if just awakened from a refreshing sleep.
— from Little Wideawake: A story book for little children by Barker, Sale, Mrs.

Mr. Rassam arranged for me the journey as far as Ravandus, and furnished me with a letter of recommendation to one of the natives there.
— from A Woman's Journey Round the World From Vienna to Brazil, Chili, Tahiti, China, Hindostan, Persia and Asia Minor by Ida Pfeiffer