And let AN be one of the Sun's Rays incident upon it at N, and thence refracted to F, where let it either go out of the Sphere by Refraction towards V, or be reflected to G; and at G let it either go out by Refraction
— from Opticks Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections, and Colours of Light by Isaac Newton

No sooner, however, has the young sailor begun his new life in earnest, than all this fine drapery falls off, and he learns that it is but work and hardship, after all.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

In all its life it eats not herb nor grain, But only tears that from frankincense flow; 110 It, for a shroud, sweet nard and myrrh contain.
— from The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno by Dante Alighieri

Religious zeal, said they, must necessarily fail, the more generally liberty is established and knowledge diffused.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 1 by Alexis de Tocqueville

In conversation with and in numerous letters from pioneers and their descendants, especially in Iowa and Wisconsin, I have found that the hope of larger returns for one’s labor is everywhere given as the main motive, sometimes as the only one.
— from A History of Norwegian Immigration to the United States From the Earliest Beginning down to the Year 1848 by George T. (George Tobias) Flom

“I'd like it ever so much,” she replied.
— from Sister Carrie: A Novel by Theodore Dreiser

Adv. diffusely &c. adj.; at large, in extenso[Lat]; about it and about it.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

Every man of distinction in the early days of his life is either a ridiculous enthusiast or an unfortunate.
— from On Love by Stendhal

And oh, how he loved it!' 'Every one had reason to love it,' said Tom, in a low voice; but she did not heed or hear.
— from The Trial; Or, More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Mary) Yonge

Pale and shaken they looked into each other’s eyes.
— from Morning Star by H. Rider (Henry Rider) Haggard

In the compartment on the left the roses are twined in a crown resembling those worn in processions; in the centre, in all its dazzling beauty, the red rose, the rose of love, is enthroned; while the panel on the right is consecrated to the faded rose—the souvenir rose, shrivelled, and lying beside the little casket which it still perfumes with its old-time sweetness."
— from Women in the fine arts, from the Seventh Century B.C. to the Twentieth Century A.D. by Clara Erskine Clement Waters

In the last every lamp is extinguished, its latest-sitting guest—if it have any guest—having gone to bed.
— from Gwen Wynn: A Romance of the Wye by Mayne Reid

Selective action could effectually put such competitors out of the way; but in the way of developing a race it could but leave it entirely to itself.
— from The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer by John Gerard

He catered for the most costly of all publics, and who will insist on listening to the sweetest voices and looking at the prettiest legs in Europe.
— from One Of Them by Charles James Lever

You will say that I am prone to discover love intrigues everywhere.
— from Frédérique, vol. 1 by Paul de Kock

"'If any be brought, it is immediately sent away, the two, or as I am informed, the three pence in the ounce, given by the East India Company, being a temptation not to be resisted; but, the truth is, very little is brought in, for the merchants that carry our commodities to foreign markets, find it more to their advantage to carry directly to London whatever they receive in cash; and whereas formerly they used, when they had disposed of their cargo, to load their vessels with such commodities as there was a demand for in Ireland, and bring the rest in cash, they bring now only the commodities, and send the silver to London; and when they have got the twopence in every ounce from the East India Company, the rest serves to answer the returns we are obliged to make to England, for the rents we are obliged to pay to noblemen and gentlemen who have estates in Ireland and live in England, and for the pensions, and other occasions which are many; by this means they gain likewise the exchange, which is commonly four or five per cent, better to them than if they sent cash.
— from The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 06 The Drapier's Letters by Jonathan Swift

Mining Law in England, 85 Notary , 94 ; 78 Nubia.
— from De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 by Georg Agricola

Indeed, Allen and I sometimes wonder how he has escaped marriage for so long.” “Is ‘escaped’ the right word?”
— from Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss