He was like a pregnant woman, only that the thing inside him was not a baby but a youth.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

Rizal charged Spain unceasingly with unprogressiveness in the Philippines, just as he labored and planned unwearyingly to bring the Filipinos abreast of modern European civilization.
— from Lineage, Life and Labors of José Rizal, Philippine Patriot by Austin Craig

The king having thus expressed himself, we are told, the fair Scheherazade resumed her history in the following words: “Sinbad went on in this manner with his narrative to the caliph—‘I thanked the man-animal for its kindness, and soon found myself very much at home on the beast, which swam at a prodigious rate through the ocean; although the surface of the latter is, in that part of the world, by no means flat, but round like a pomegranate, so that we went—so to say—either up hill or down hill all the time.’
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

Even three years, in such circumstances, are almost too long a period, and any longer term is absolutely inadmissible.
— from Considerations on Representative Government by John Stuart Mill

I was, indeed, like a person who, according to the old legend, had entered the cave of Trophonius; and the remedies I sought were to force myself into society, and to keep my understanding in continual activity upon matters of science.
— from Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey

I am sure she adores scandals, and that the sorrow of her life at present is that she can’t manage to have enough of them.
— from An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde

There was a time in the baron's life when he seemed to change his nature; it was when, after giving up his hired dancer, he madly entered upon an amour with Esther van Gobseck, alarmed his physician, Horace Bianchon, employed Corentin, Georges, Louchard, and Peyrade, and became especially the prey of Jacques Collin.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

The ones I specify are the largest in Colorado, but the whole of that State, and of Wyoming, Utah, Nevada and western California, through their sierras and ravines, are copiously mark'd by similar spreads and openings, many of the small ones of paradisiac loveliness and perfection, with their offsets of mountains, streams, atmosphere and hues beyond compare.
— from Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Walt Whitman

In so large a party it was not necessary that Emma should approach her.
— from Emma by Jane Austen

The Rāmāyaṇa , in fact, represents the dawn of the later artificial poetry (kāvya) , which was in all probability the direct continuation and development of the art handed down by the rhapsodists who recited Vālmīki’s work.
— from A History of Sanskrit Literature by Arthur Anthony Macdonell

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— from The 2003 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency

The war prisoner, being a prisoner, has earned death by natural law, and prefers to get his last stroke in hot blood than to be knocked down by the headsman’s axe.
— from The Lost Continent by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne

He is a large and powerful man and looks the picture of sleek contentment, as well he may.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

Besides these Neapolitan noblemen who have enlisted of late as privates, the Italian army now encamped on the banks of the Po and of the Mincio may boast of two Colonnas, a prince of Somma, two Barons Renzi, an Acquaviva, of the Duke of Atri, two Capece, two Princes Buttera, etc.
— from Complete Short Works of George Meredith by George Meredith

He—er—sounds something like a parrot to me.”
— from Miss Billy by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

It is curious to find no less a person than Sir Francis Drake charged with having been befriended by the devil; and the many marvellous stories current respecting him still linger among the Devonshire peasantry.
— from Strange Pages from Family Papers by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer

Let us go forth And find a little corner of the earth Where I may work and you may live at peace.
— from The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915 by Various

An interesting comment upon the prevalence of early national forms may be deduced, when one observes that on the table, at the Last Supper, there lies a perfectly shaped pretzel!
— from Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance by Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison