As soon as he spied Tiny, he was delighted; and then she told him how unwilling she felt to marry the ugly mole, and to live always beneath the earth, and never to see the bright sun any more.
— from Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by H. C. (Hans Christian) Andersen

I was sure that it was not the modern dress of any portion of France or Brittany; but not until I was dressed and stood before a mirror between the windows did I realize that I was clothed much more like a young huntsman of the middle ages than like a Breton of that day.
— from The King in Yellow by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers

Men of the greatest abilities are most fired with ambition, and, on the contrary, mean and narrow minds are the least actuated by it.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

"But our true Life came down hither, and bore our death, and slew him, out of the abundance of His own life: and He thundered, calling aloud to us to return hence to Him into that secret place, whence He came forth to us, first into the Virgin's womb, wherein He espoused the human creation, our mortal flesh, that it might not be for ever mortal, and thence like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, rejoicing as a giant to run his course.
— from The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo

Carried away by wonder, I forgot the death of man, and the living and beloved friend near me.
— from The Last Man by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

V During the three or four succeeding years a quaint and singular vehicle might have been discerned moving along the lanes and by-roads near Marygreen, driven in a quaint and singular way.
— from Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy

Now return to your safe custody: you shall presently meet afore the ladies, and be the dearest friends one to another.
— from Epicoene; Or, The Silent Woman by Ben Jonson

alas! said I to myself, that man should disturb his soul for the loss of a child, when so much as this lies awfully buried in his presence——Remember, said I to myself again—remember thou art a man.”—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

alas! said I to myself, that man should disturb his soul for the loss of a child, when so much as this lies awfully buried in his presence—Remember, said I to myself again—remember thou art a man.'—
— from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne

Sanguine thence are soon caught, young folks most apt to love, and by their good wills, saith
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

But they had some difficulty in managing about the light, as burning it steady would have been forbidden by the pirates.
— from Yr Ynys Unyg The Lonely Island by Julia de Winton

The same remark holds good in regard to the greater part of the leeward coasts of Martinique, and the leeward alluvial bases and recesses [24] of hills, in whatever port of the torrid zone they may be placed , with the exception, probably of the immediate sites of towns, where the pavements prevent the rain-water being absorbed into the soil, and hold it up to speedy evaporation.
— from Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest

The copper-plate head of a bill, ‘ London 17.., Bought of Churcher and Christie, Leather Sellers and Breeches Makers, at the Lamb and Breeches, London Bridge .’
— from Chronicles of London Bridge by Richard Thompson

Not only does variability appear to be induced in man and the lower animals by the same general causes, but in both the same parts of the body are affected in a closely analogous manner.
— from The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex by Charles Darwin

The scarlet banner of the woodbine fluttered from many a tree like a bloody omen, the ash was clad in purple robes, the elm and linden trees were like yellow flames among the bright red fires of gum and dogwood.
— from See America First by Charles J. Herr

I have since turned from this insolent egotism but for a long time it influenced my attitude towards life and brought me close to disaster.
— from The Wasted Generation by Owen Johnson

In spite of which many perished, the survivors afterwards declaring that the tragedy mesmerized their nerves with a certain awe not to be compared with the terrors felt on sinking ships, the Mahomet affecting them like a being of life, like behemoth slowly dying, or some doomed moon.
— from The Lord of the Sea by M. P. (Matthew Phipps) Shiel

Green was known only to a 140 small circle of friends, having written nothing under his own signature except one or two papers in magazines or in the Transactions of archæological societies; and the plan of his book, which dealt, in eight hundred and twenty pages, with the whole fourteen centuries of English national life, obliged him to handle facts in the mass, and touch lightly and briefly on personal traits.
— from Studies in Contemporary Biography by Bryce, James Bryce, Viscount

After that period Palestine was ruled in the sternest military manner, and treated like a border province subject to martial law with legionaries scattered all over it.
— from The Expositor's Bible: The Acts of the Apostles, Vol. 2 by George Thomas Stokes