When he came to London ( c. 1584), his soul was surging with the ideals of the Renaissance, which later found expression in Faustus, the scholar longing for unlimited knowledge and for power to grasp the universe.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

The reader will easily believe, that from what I had hear and seen, my keen appetite for perpetuity of life was much abated.
— from Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift

The two brothers were discontented with their position at the Court where Count Bruhl was supreme, and put themselves at the head of the plot for dethroning the king, and for placing on the throne, under Russian protection, their young nephew, who had originally gone to St. Petersburg as an attache at the embassy, and afterwards succeeded in winning the favour of Catherine, then Grand Duchess, but soon to become empress.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

we killed a few Pheasants, and I killd a prarie woolf which together with the ballance of our horse beef and some crawfish which we obtained in the creek enabled us to make one more hearty meal, not knowing where the next was to be found.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark

As the idea of the particular duration of anything is, an idea of that portion of infinite duration which passes during the existence of that thing; so the time when the thing existed is, the idea of that space of duration which passed between some known and fixed period of duration, and the being of that thing.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 MDCXC, Based on the 2nd Edition, Books 1 and 2 by John Locke

He inherited an ample fortune, and was thereby enabled to keep aloof from public life and to devote himself to literature and to writing works of an historical nature.
— from Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Edmund Luce

Those who have true knowledge and faith pass through the world of the gods and the sun to the world of Brahma, whence there is no return.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

Instead, after killing a few people, they went to the tribunal (town hall), seized the local teniente , or municipal representative of American [ 457 ] authority, tied the American flag they found at the tribunal about the head of the teniente , turban fashion, poured kerosene oil on it, and took the teniente down stairs and out into the public square, where they lighted and burned the flag on his head, the chief of the band, one Juliano Caducoy by name, remarking to the onlookers that the act was intended as a lesson to those serving that flag.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

Then does he advance his plate, seize his ivory knife and fork, put on a look of determined animation, and cry aloud for plenty of paste, plenty of fruit, and plenty of sugar!
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 by Various

I do not know a finer Piece of Satyr on this Part of Womankind, than those lines of Mr. Dryden , Our thoughtless Sex is caught by outward Form, And empty Noise, and loves it self in Man.
— from The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 With Translations and Index for the Series by Steele, Richard, Sir

This is known as Fairmount Park, which covers over three thousand acres of land.
— from Great Cities of the United States Historical, Descriptive, Commercial, Industrial by Stephen Elliott Kramer

After that conversation, it was remarkable what daily care and attention Dab Kinzer and Frank paid to their sparring lessons.
— from St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, September 1878, No. 11 by Various

“ Kydde , a fagotte;” Palsgrave.
— from The Book of Husbandry by Anthony Fitzherbert

In addition to members of the stage I knew a few people in the town, and we received and visited the family of Dorn, the musical director, with whom I became quite intimate.
— from My Life — Volume 1 by Richard Wagner

(King among fishermen, prince among gentlemen, you will read these lines, and you will be so good as to understand that I am talking of you.)
— from Ravenshoe by Henry Kingsley

On this, his determination returned strong upon him and going out of the inn, he gave his knife a fresh point by rubbing it against a stone, and then turned his face towards Paris.
— from Old and New Paris: Its History, Its People, and Its Places, v. 1 by H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland) Edwards

I might go to large and populous towns and villages in the kingdom, and fully prove my assertion in the reformed manners of the poor, many of whom, before these pious visitations, had been remarkable for the profaneness of their lives.
— from A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 2 Taken from a View of the Education and Discipline, Social Manners, Civil and Political Economy, Religious Principles and Character, of the Society of Friends by Thomas Clarkson

His peg-stick was insensible to this insult, but one leg kicked a feeble protest.
— from Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice