"It is not likely that either Richard or I can ever forget your kindness that day, cousin John."
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

The tale of Alexander on his warlike marches suddenly dying, On one side China and on the other side Persia and Arabia, To the south the great seas and the bay of Bengal, The flowing literatures, tremendous epics, religions, castes, Old occult Brahma interminably far back, the tender and junior Buddha, Central and southern empires and all their belongings, possessors, The wars of Tamerlane,the reign of Aurungzebe, The traders, rulers, explorers, Moslems, Venetians, Byzantium, the Arabs, Portuguese, The first travelers famous yet, Marco Polo, Batouta the Moor, Doubts to be solv'd, the map incognita, blanks to be fill'd, The foot of man unstay'd, the hands never at rest, Thyself O soul that will not brook a challenge.
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

At last the evil reached such a pitch that the people rose, and with indiscriminate fury destroyed good and bad alike.
— from Erewhon; Or, Over the Range by Samuel Butler

When Noah saw that the intelligence he communicated perfectly paralysed Mr. Bumble, he imparted additional effect thereunto, by bewailing his dreadful wounds ten times louder than before; and when he observed a gentleman in a white waistcoat crossing the yard, he was more tragic in his lamentations than ever: rightly conceiving it highly expedient to attract the notice, and rouse the indignation, of the gentleman aforesaid.
— from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

As a matter of fact, most of the advice she has received and heeded has led to excisions rather than to additions.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Par exemple, les images et illustrations qui abondent sur la toile et rendent les sites inaccessibles à cette population sont légendées.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

But the extreme southern portion of Luzon, the enormously rich hemp peninsula already described [ 401 ] in a former chapter, and the adjoining hemp island of Samar, were still seething with sedition which later broke out.
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

"that is to mene the endles love." THE ELEVENTH REVELATION CHAPTER XXV "I wot well that thou wouldst see my blessed Mother...." "Wilt thou see in her how thou art loved?"
— from Revelations of Divine Love by of Norwich Julian

My lord the Emperor, resolve me this: Was it well done of rash Virginius To slay his daughter with his own right hand, Because she was enforc'd, stain'd, and deflower'd? SATURNINUS.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Two woodcutters standing close to the giant remained with axes in their grip, like two executioners ready to strike once more, and Renardet, motionless, with his hand on the trunk, awaited the fall with an uneasy, nervous feeling.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant

In this dreadful Quarrel perished two hundred thousand of private Soldiers; ten thousand of the Nobility, Gentry, and Persons of Distinction; three Kings; and, at last, the entire Race of Plantagenet .
— from An Essay on the Antient and Modern State of Ireland by Henry Brooke

Author of "American Literature" "The English Religious Drama," etc.
— from Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

Winifred Child had listened to Ena Rolls's warnings and had taken them deeply to heart.
— from Winnie Childs, the Shop Girl by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson

Then I gave public notice by herald and trumpet that I should be busy with affairs of state for a fortnight, but about the end of that time I would take a moment’s leisure and blow up Merlin’s stone tower by fires from heaven; in the meantime, whoso listened to evil reports about me, let him beware.
— from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain

It was like the escarped rampart of a stupendous fortress, whose glacis was the beach, and whose champaign the ocean.—From its surface we overlooked the greater part of the Cape.
— from Cape Cod by Henry David Thoreau

It was built of great pine logs, the ends roughly dovetailed together with a lumberman’s axe.
— from The Speculations of John Steele by Robert Barr

“One of the rarest specimens of a prairie lizard that exists!” replied the professor, as, all unconscious of the dangling noose, he thrust the specimen into his green box.
— from The Motor Boys Overland; Or, A Long Trip for Fun and Fortune by Clarence Young

Like the ever returning but never ending labors of the fabled Sisyphus, this court, in disregard to the maxim of “stare decisis,” would, in each recurring case, have to enter upon its examination and decision as if all were new, without any aid from the experience of the past, or the benefit of any established principle or settled law.
— from How to Master the Spoken Word Designed as a Self-Instructor for all who would Excel in the Art of Public Speaking by Edwin Gordon Lawrence

Osiris was seen at his espousals with Isis, teaching men to till the ground, to gather fruits, to plant the vine; he was shown slain of men, rising again, leaving the earth, reappearing as the White Bull, the blameless Apis.
— from The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner by Dmitry Sergeyevich Merezhkovsky

Clematis immediately decided to let the excelsior remain where it was, lest he miss something really important.
— from Seventeen A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington