It is true that an attempt has been made among civilised peoples to obviate its injurious effects by means of all the machinery of state government; but as soon as this, wherever, or of whatever kind, it be, is suspended or eluded, the natural law immediately resumes its sway.
— from The Basis of Morality by Arthur Schopenhauer

And if too late I reach its side To save it from the 'whelming surge, I call my dolphins o'er the tide, To bear the crew where isles emerge.
— from The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Ward Radcliffe

If Kisotchka had laughed in response I should have gone on in this style: ‘You had better look out, Kisotchka, or some officer or actor will be carrying you off!’
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

“This passes a jest, my lord,” said De Bracy; “no knight here will lay lance in rest if such an insult is attempted.”
— from Ivanhoe: A Romance by Walter Scott

We had our troops on the Weldon Railroad contending against a large force that regarded this road of so much importance that they could afford to expend many lives in retaking it; Sherman just getting through to Atlanta with great losses of men from casualties, discharges and detachments left along as guards to occupy and hold the road in rear of him; Washington threatened but a short time before, and now Early being strengthened in the valley so as, probably, to renew that attempt.
— from Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete by Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson) Grant

Take a handful of dried Wormwood, for every gallon of Wine, stop it in a vessel close, and so let it remain in steep: so is prepared wine of Rosemary flowers, and Eye-bright.
— from The Complete Herbal To which is now added, upwards of one hundred additional herbs, with a display of their medicinal and occult qualities physically applied to the cure of all disorders incident to mankind: to which are now first annexed, the English physician enlarged, and key to Physic. by Nicholas Culpeper

The temperature rose some degrees, and the accumulated vapor in the air was not long in resolving into snow.
— from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

Amongst aristocratic nations a member of the legislature is rarely in strict dependence upon his constituents: he is frequently to them a sort of unavoidable representative; sometimes they are themselves strictly dependent upon him; and if at length they reject him, he may easily get elected elsewhere, or, retiring from public life, he may still enjoy the pleasures of splendid idleness.
— from Democracy in America — Volume 2 by Alexis de Tocqueville

The occasion, great as it was, would have lost its romance if she had not been there.
— from France in the Nineteenth Century by Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer

"The poor lad," I rejoined, "is so very penitent for his offence."
— from Memoirs of the Court of Louis XIV. and of the Regency — Volume 01 by Orléans, Charlotte-Elisabeth, duchesse d'

The eastern horizon had been ruddy for sometime, but when the sun suddenly came up from behind the mountain, the mist 210 lifted itself, rolled into soft white wreaths and crowned the summits, while all the land below broke out into an effulgence of light, color, and glory.
— from Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

And all our thought of them, as they are now, at this hour, "in those heavenly habitations, where the souls of them that sleep in the Lord Jesus enjoy perpetual rest and felicity," [238] gains indefinitely in life, in reality, in strength and glory, as we see them, through this narrow but bright "door in heaven" (Rev. v. 1), not resting only but serving also before their Lord, who has bought them for His use, and who holds them in His use quite as truly now as when we had the joy of their presence with us, and He was seen by us living and working in them and through them here.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle of St Paul to the Romans by H. C. G. (Handley Carr Glyn) Moule

17 The above are only a few of the many like instances recorded in scientific progress.
— from Perpetual Motion by Percy Verance

[Job 31:24] And Psalm lxii: "If riches increase, set not your heart upon them."
— from Works of Martin Luther, with Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Martin Luther

"'Oh, ladies,' I remember I says, fervent, 'I feel like we could make a Fourth o' July just like stirrin' up a white cake, so be we was let.' "'What d' you know about managin' a Fourth?' snarls Silas.
— from Mothers to Men by Zona Gale

If the naked are clothed; if the hungry are fed; if justice is done; if labor is rewarded; if superstition is driven from the mind; if the defenceless are protected and if the right finally triumphs, all must be the work of man.
— from The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Complete Contents Dresden Edition—Twelve Volumes by Robert Green Ingersoll

A more heterogeneous assembly surely had not often met, and seldom, I believe, were more languages in requisition in so small a party.
— from Henry Martyn, Saint and Scholar First Modern Missionary to the Mohammedans, 1781-1812 by George Smith

There can be no question that M. F. de Lasteyrie is right in saying that they were never worn as crowns; they were designed for suspension before an altar, and most of them have crosses hanging from them.
— from Some Account of Gothic Architecture in Spain by George Edmund Street