Childhood begins life with these notions, and knighthood also; but, as life grows larger and its relations many-sided, the early faith seeks sanction from higher authority and more rational sources for its own justification, satisfaction and development.
— from Bushido, the Soul of Japan by Inazo Nitobe

In one place it enclosed and burned down a grove of cocoa-nut trees, and the holes in the lava where the trunks stood are still visible; their sides retain the impression of the bark; the trees fell upon the burning river, and becoming partly submerged, left in it the perfect counterpart of every knot and branch and leaf, and even nut, for curiosity seekers of a long distant day to gaze upon and wonder at.
— from Roughing It by Mark Twain

They repaired to the other tenement; tried the rusty keys as before; at length found the right one; and opened the worm-eaten door.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

The Gothic kings and bishops at length discovered, that injuries will produce hatred, and that hatred will find the opportunity of revenge.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

Swift kindnesses are best: a long delay /
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The Kislar Aga brings a letter from the Sultan.
— from Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

Hataa (hatai) ug karmilítus ang bátà, Act like you’re going to give the child some candy.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

For these eleven kings shall die all in a day, by the great might and prowess of arms of two valiant knights (as it telleth after); their names be Balin le Savage, and Balan, his brother, that be marvellous good knights as be any living.
— from Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1 by Malory, Thomas, Sir

But nitroglycerin is uncertain stuff to keep and being a liquid is awkward to handle.
— from Creative Chemistry: Descriptive of Recent Achievements in the Chemical Industries by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson

Ah, could you crush that ever craving lust For bliss, which kills all bliss, and lose your life, Your barren unit life, to find again A thousand times in those for whom you die— So were you men and women, and should hold Your rightful rank in God’s great universe, Wherein, in heaven or earth, by will or nature, Naught lives for self.
— from Scientific Essays and Lectures by Charles Kingsley

The general’s body servant knocked, announcing breakfast, and left the general’s boots and tunic, both carefully brushed.
— from Special Messenger by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

He sought to cut down, as with a sword of simplicity, the new and nameless enormity of finance; and he must have known, as by a lightning flash, that the people were behind him, because all the politicians were against him.
— from What I Saw in America by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton

A few minutes of anxious expectation passed, and then the king, attended by a large group [Pg 252] of courtiers, came sweeping grandly forward, while at the same moment a gleaming display of fireworks, at the end of the avenue, blazed off in fiery greeting.
— from Historic Tales: The Romance of Reality. Vol. 06 (of 15), French by Charles Morris

And when shall the auspicious day, beautiful Immalee, still beautiful Isidora, in spite of your Christian name, (to which I have a most anti-catholic objection)—when shall that bright day dawn on your long slumbering eye-lashes, and waken them with kisses, and beams, and light, and love, and all the paraphernalia with which folly arrays misery previous to their union—that glittering and empoisoned drapery that well resembles what of old Dejanira sent to her husband—when shall the day of bliss be?”
— from Melmoth the Wanderer, Vol. 3 (of 4) by Charles Robert Maturin