It weighed upon him that he had to hide it from his family; he was accustomed to tell his wife everything; and if his feverish brain had not hatched a new idea at that moment, a new plan of conciliation for further action, he might have taken to his bed like Lyamshin.
— from The Possessed (The Devils) by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

He is a mathematician, and no poet.”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe

[pg 305] XXV. Now swome a prison in a prison put, And now this Soule in double walls was shut, Till melted with the Swans digestive fire, She left her house the fish, and vapour'd forth; 245 Fate not affording bodies of more worth For her as yet, bids her againe retire T'another fish, to any new desire Made a new prey; For, he that can to none Resistance make, nor complaint, sure is gone.
— from The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2) Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts by John Donne

One morning Mr Sampson Brass sat upon his stool copying some legal process, and viciously digging his pen deep into the paper, as if he were writing upon the very heart of the party against whom it was directed; and Miss Sally Brass sat upon her stool making a new pen preparatory to drawing out a little bill, which was her favourite occupation; and so they sat in silence for a long time, until Miss Brass broke silence.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens

After this, in the same year, the said Sir William Walworth, founded in the said parish church of St. Michael a college of a master and nine priests, or chaplains, and deceased 1385, was there buried in the north chapel by the choir; but his monument being amongst other by bad people defaced in the reign of Edward VI., and again since renewed by the fishmongers, for lack of knowledge of what before had been written in his epitaph, they followed a fabulous book, and wrote Jack Straw instead of Wat Tilar, a great error meet to be reformed there and elsewhere; and therefore have I the more at large discoursed of this matter.
— from The Survey of London by John Stow

I said to him, You and I, Adeimantus, at this moment are not poets, but founders of a State: now the founders of a State ought to know the general forms in which poets should cast their tales, and
— from The Republic by Plato

Of the cause of his emigrating and that of early emigration from Land in general, his son Christian H. Tollefsrude of Rolfe, Iowa, writes me: The causes were, no personal means and no prospect even securing a home in their native district, Torpen, Nordre Land (letter of July 27, 1904).
— 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

A few of the neighboring poor had joined the train, and some children of the village were running hand in hand, now shouting with unthinking mirth, and now pausing to gaze, with childish curiosity on the grief of the mourner.
— from The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Washington Irving

And there are therein fair rivers and great meadows and noble pasture for beasts.
— from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Mandeville, John, Sir

It is only denied that mere acts, not proceeding from faith, are or can be holiness.
— from The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 4 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Why, the National government would be substantially in the hands of those who have been engaged in a desperate struggle to overthrow it; and it would be a government converted into a great military and naval power by the war which resulted in their defeat, and fully competent to enforce its decisions at home and abroad by the strong hand.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 94, August, 1865 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics by Various

On a raised platform at one side was a camera and a man who gave directions through a megaphone; a neighbouring platform held a second camera.
— from Merton of the Movies by Harry Leon Wilson

At this point we must take the map and never put it aside till the final battle is over.
— from The Winning of Canada: a Chronicle of Wolfe by William Charles Henry Wood

He immediately made a new point in advance, rubbed his horse down with some heath and leaves of trees, and placed himself across the road, about two hundred paces from the camp.
— from The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas

"Perhaps if we should hide there till these two parties meet,—" "As neither party would have come upon us on the way," said Dick, "they might suppose we had taken some other road, after all.
— from The Road to Paris: A Story of Adventure by Robert Neilson Stephens

In this could be developed the "continually increasing possibilities of great guns, the minutiae of new explosives, all the technique of military and naval progression, without any vast expense."
— from New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915 by Various

"I don't know that they've done any mean thing to me," answered Nat Poole.
— from Dave Porter and His Classmates; Or, For the Honor of Oak Hall by Edward Stratemeyer

My uncle and I made a new partnership: that of Top & Callaway, of which you may have heard, for the honesty of our trade and the worth of the schooners we build.
— from The Cruise of the Shining Light by Norman Duncan

Janet and Lise would be growing up, there would be young men, and no place to see them save the sidewalks.
— from The Dwelling Place of Light — Complete by Winston Churchill