These, like the over-largely lettered signs and placards of the street, escape observation by dint of being excessively obvious; and here the physical oversight is precisely analogous with the moral inapprehension by which the intellect suffers to pass unnoticed those considerations which are too obtrusively and too palpably self-evident.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

How are you? Are you less sad and painfully pre-occupied than yesterday, my adored one?
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Your letter sent a pang to my very heart's core that the dear old home, so full of the memory of our father, must be given up.
— from The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 1 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper

Coco-de-Mer, gives the following interesting account:— “ Coco-de-Mer , or Double Coco-nut , the curious twin fruit so called, the produce of the Lodoicea Sechellarum , a palm growing only in the Seychelles Islands, is cast up on the shores of the Indian Ocean, most frequently on the Maldive Islands, but occasionally also on Ceylon and S. India, and on the coasts of Zanzibar, of Sumatra, and some others of the Malay Islands.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

“I have never been acquainted with Jacek—have not even seen him; I had scarcely heard of his riotous life, since I was then studying rhetoric in a [pg 160] Jesuit school, and later served as page with the Wojewoda.
— from Pan Tadeusz Or, the Last Foray in Lithuania; a Story of Life Among Polish Gentlefolk in the Years 1811 and 1812 by Adam Mickiewicz

He would have feared those sublimities whence some very great men even, like Swedenborg and Pascal, have slipped into insanity.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

Not half so swift the sailing falcon flies, That drives a turtle through the liquid skies, As Phoebus, shooting from the Idaean brow, Glides down the mountain to the plain below.
— from The Iliad by Homer

Ordinary water-colours based on glycerine or albumen can be used in the decoration of leather, but are recommended only for colouring small parts of a design, partly because liquid colour is more easily applied over large surfaces, and partly because, being less transparent, they do not lend themselves to the process of rubbing which plays so important a part in patine .
— from The Decoration of Leather From the French of Georges de Récy by Georges de Récy

It is felt that there can be disadvantages in too much freedom, and so these people sigh to be placed under a yoke—a yoke of their own choosing, but none the less stern and powerful and, above all, active.
— from The Spirit of the Links by Henry Leach

Thus shall the barrel remain inexhaustible; it hath a lively spring and perpetual current.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 by François Rabelais

This church is capable of "seating" fifteen hundred persons, has galleries running entirely around it, and is sustained at the roof within by composite pilasters of plaster, and at the pulpit by columns of mongrel Corinthian; the tout ensemble is very excellent; a darkey sexton gave us a pew, and there were some handsome ladies present, dark Richmond beauties, haughty and thinly clothed, with only here and there a jockey-feathered hat, or a velvet mantilla, to tell of long siege and privation.
— from Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend

She had scarcely finished speaking before Jem made a little spring and picked something up.
— from Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The weapons were a light spear, a pilum or javelin six feet long, terminated by a steel point, and a sword with a double edge, adapted to striking or pushing.
— from The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization. by John Lord

However, for the sake of the interest of all parties, he thought rather, that that treaty should be renewed; and that the Latins should, as participators, enjoy the prosperity of the Roman people, rather than that they should be constantly either apprehending or suffering the demolition of their town and the devastations of their lands, which they suffered formerly in the reign of Ancus, afterwards in the reign of his own father."
— from The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 by Livy

Also, navigating by dead reckoning requires long study and practice.
— from The Cruise of the Snark by Jack London