When a troubadour professed his readiness to obey his lady in all things, he made it incumbent upon the next comer, if he wished to avoid the imputation of tameness and commonplace, to declare himself the slave of her will, which the next was compelled to cap by some still stronger declaration; and so expressions of devotion went on rising one above the other like biddings at an auction, and a conventional language of gallantry and theory of love came into being that in time permeated the literature of Southern Europe, and bore fruit, in one direction in the transcendental worship of Beatrice and Laura, and in another in the grotesque idolatry which found exponents in writers like Feliciano de Silva.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

As he drew closer to the cry he went more slowly, with caution in every movement, till he came to an open place among the trees, and looking out saw, erect on haunches, with nose pointed to the sky, a long, lean, timber wolf.
— from The Call of the Wild by Jack London

This was strikingly brought out in the hundreds of English compositions (written by students of the Imperial University, 1872-74, describing the home or individual life of students), examined and read by the author.
— from The Religions of Japan, from the Dawn of History to the Era of Méiji by William Elliot Griffis

But you’re so busy that you can’t look behind you; you can spot a louse on someone else, all right, but you can’t see the tick on yourself.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

But the Doctor, after hearing their story, doesn't make much of it, and only gives them thirty lines of Homer to learn by heart, and a lecture on the likelihood of such exploits ending in broken bones.
— from Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes

I stood watching the scene, while Adrian flitted like a shadow in among them, and, by a word and look of sobriety, endeavoured to restore order in the assembly.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

the ground's your own , 335 Star-spangled banner , 49 , 333 – 335 Still, still with thee , 481 Sun of my soul, my saviour dear , 159 Sunset and evening star , 535 Sur nos chemins les rameaux , 470 Sweet hour of prayer , 432 Sweet is the day of sacred rest , 488 Sweet is the light of sabbath eve , 488 Sweet is work, my God, my king , 37 Sweet is the work, O Lord , 168 Sweet the moments, rich in blessing , 127 Take me as I am, O saviour , 384 Te Deum laudamus , 1 Tell me not in mournful numbers , 248 Tell me the old, old story , 427 The banner of Immanuel , 188 ,
— from The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Hezekiah Butterworth

The general state of her health, the nature of her pains, and the time they first commenced, should all be known; and if she has had children before, it will be highly useful to know what kind of a labor she had; whether it was long or short, easy or difficult, and particularly if attended with any accident likely to occur again.
— from The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine by Frederick Hollick

His youthful poem, "Venus and Adonis," is touched with the disease which had blighted the literature and the life of southern Europe,—the infection of the imagination by sensuality, a sort of intellectual putrescence.
— from The Chief End of Man by George Spring Merriam

Yet ne’er one sprig of laurel graced these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down to p---g Tibalds: Each wight, who reads not, and but scans and spells, Each word-catcher, that lives on syllables, Even such small critics some regard may claim, Preserved in Milton’s or in Shakespeare’s name.
— from An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope

The love of strong emotions—the brandy-drinking of the mind—is an acquired taste.
— from The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2, May, 1851 by Various

At last one Sunday evening he decided to be done with dallying, and to bring Ruth between the hammer and the anvil of his will.
— from Mistress Wilding by Rafael Sabatini

"What if I had not used that last opportunity?" said Edith to herself as she walked back to her cottage.
— from The Pansy Magazine, February 1886 by Various

[55] Hogg’s Life of Shelley , ed. 1906, p. 233.
— from The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald

We imagine that within the interior of the liquid mass such molecular interactions negative one another: but that at and near the free surface, within a layer or film ap­prox­i­mate­ly equal to the range of the molecular force, there must be a lack of such equi­lib­rium and consequently a manifestation of force.
— from On Growth and Form by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson