And when, using the evidence of my life as plain proof, she had completely cleared me of them, and I obeyed once more the Emperor's summons from Greece, did she ever forsake me, as though, now that all enmity and suspicion had been removed, I no longer needed much assistance?
— from The Works of the Emperor Julian, Vol. 1 by Emperor of Rome Julian

The old unblessed Products and Performances, as solid as they look, are Phantasms, preparing speedily to vanish.
— from On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle

§ 5. Comparison of the three specifically different kinds of satisfaction The pleasant and the good have both a reference to the faculty of desire; and they bring with them—the former a satisfaction pathologically conditioned (by impulses, stimuli )—the latter a pure practical satisfaction, which is determined not merely by the representation of the object, but also by the represented connexion of the subject with the existence of the object.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

She looked like a priestess performing some mystic, splendid rite.
— from Rilla of Ingleside by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

La patro kaj lia amiko parolas pri siaj domoj.
— from A Complete Grammar of Esperanto by Ivy Kellerman Reed

During the period of her operatic career in England, Catalani illustrated the works of a wide variety of composers, both serious and comic; for her dramatic talents were equal to both, and there was no music which she did not master as if by inspiration, though she was such a bad reader that to learn a part perfectly she was obliged to hear it played on the piano.
— from Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

Cuando llegaron allí, el muchacho persuadió a su perversa hermana a que debían operar con cuidado, buscando beneficiarse del néctar sin destruir las abejas pequeñitas, pues se referían historias de cazadores meleros desaparecidos bruscamente a manos de un dios invisible que protege las colmenas....
— from Argentina, Legend and History by Lucio Vicente López

“For he did claw at himself, and leap about over the ice like a playful puppy, save from the way he growled and squealed it was plain it was not play but pain. Never did I see such a sight!”
— from Love of Life, and Other Stories by Jack London

The water there, full of cinders and trash, pouring through the gear 72 as she turned from side to side, made it look a pretty poor show.
— from The Sea and the Jungle by H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson

When that light shone full upon her, Sonia looked to his eye like a painted Phryne surprised by the daylight.
— from The Art of Disappearing by John Talbot Smith

"Keep cool, boys, keep cool," cried Captain Bill, slapping his thigh, as his manner was, his broad, good-humoured face shining like a pewter platter, "steady your helm and haul in your jib-sheets."
— from Golden Dreams and Leaden Realities by George Payson

He would live like a prince henceforward, spend the winter in Budapest, or on the Riviera, in Monaco, and the summer at Ostend; in fact, he would be a grand gentleman, and not even look at poor priests' sisters.
— from St. Peter's Umbrella: A Novel by Kálmán Mikszáth