Converse and love mankind might strongly draw, When love was liberty, and Nature law.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

As all language has acquired its meaning, and did not have it in the beginning, so the man who launches a new locution, the poet who creates a symbol, must do so without knowing what significance it may eventually acquire, and conscious at best only of the emotional background from which it emerged.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Besides which, he industriously gathered the histories of their martyrdom, together with other ecclesiastical writings, and erected there a large and noble library.
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

Gregorius and his men cut down the gates of the yard; and there in the port fell Einar, a son of Laxapaul, who was of Sigurd's people, together with Halvard Gunnarson, who was shot in a loft, and nobody lamented his death.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson

In the year 1484, a great fire happened upon this Leaden hall, by what casualty I know not, but much housing was there destroyed, with all the stocks for guns, and other provision belonging to the city, which was a great loss, and no less charge to be repaired by them.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

But the servants were ordered to give the King's son a sleeping-drink, and then the maiden laid herself down on the threshold and lamented all night long.
— from Household Tales by Brothers Grimm by Wilhelm Grimm

That Science is possible in the way in which it is practised to-day, proves that all elementary instincts, the instincts which ward off danger and protect life, are no longer active.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

At last a nightingale, lost in a thicket of shrubs, in the midst of its most melodious cadences had fluted low and lower into stillness and fallen asleep.
— from Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

Soon as the speech of Ráma, stirred By deep desire to know, he heard, The pious saint began to tell What paused the waters' roar and swell: “On high Kailása's distant hill There lies a noble lake Whose waters, born from Brahmá's will, The name of Mánas 158 take.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

He had wide blue eyes full of laughter, a neat little vertical nose, a neat little horizontal mouth with his few neat little teeth showing very plainly, and on the whole Rebecca's figure of speech was not so wide of the mark.
— from New Chronicles of Rebecca by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

[Pg 6] engraving if it were more like a photograph or lithograph, and no lines seen?—suppose, more like the head of Mr. Santley, now in all the music-shops, and really quite deceptive in light and shade, when seen from over the way?
— from Ariadne Florentina: Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin

But I shall take it back with me, shall I not, love; and never lose it more?"
— from Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter by Lawrence L. Lynch

And I perceive, my lord,' I said, 'that you are of a like mind with his lordship, and no lover of new-fangled and curious terms.' "Upon which my dear earl laughed, and related unto us how the queen had been pleased to take notice of him at Oxford, and spoke merrily to him of his marriage.
— from Constance Sherwood: An Autobiography of the Sixteenth Century by Georgiana Fullerton

This is the time when the evergreens stand out so prominently on the landscape in such sharp contrast with the others that have been stripped of their broad leaves and now look bare and lifeless.
— from Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study by Ontario. Department of Education

Old Light and New Light, con. and pro ?
— from Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, February 20, 1892 by Various

Teaching in Queen’s College Barbadoes, in Londonderry, Brecon, and Guernsey (Newnham and Girton students are to be found in both the Channel Islands), Vice-principal of the Samuel Morley Memorial College London, and, not least interesting, lecturer at the University Extension College Exeter.
— from Cambridge by M. A. R. (Mildred Anna Rosalie) Tuker

“Only now and then—saum as I’d let any nice lad.”
— from The Four Roads by Sheila Kaye-Smith