Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime ; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling.
— from The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 01 (of 12) by Edmund Burke

In the mere artist, too, there is always something that falls short of the gentleman and that defeats the man.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

Pike a mile or more and then turned into a side road.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

I may assume that there is a second to be mentioned?’
— from Hard Times by Charles Dickens

In the midground another two tombs in a suitable form, and in the background and on an elevated plane, the tomb and statue of the founder, Don Diego Tenorio.
— from Don Juan Tenorio by José Zorrilla

" The latter part of this delectable speech was addressed to me across the table, in a species of stage whisper, in reply to some telegraphic signals I had been throwing him, to induce him to turn the conversation into any other channel.
— from The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 2 by Charles James Lever

I don't know what I said: she looked at me all the time in a strange, clear way.
— from Rest Harrow: A Comedy of Resolution by Maurice Hewlett

My Lichtenstein cousin has, however, a disagreeable, odd way of showing her friendship; she is so ladylike and reserved, that one is afraid to joke in her presence, much less to be as familiar with her as with Marie; but it is just that which renders her so attractive in my eyes, for if she sends me away ten times, I am sure to return to her the eleventh:--the reason is," he murmured to himself, "that her old strict father is present, of whom she is rather shy; let him but once cross the boundary of Ulm, and I'll soon tame her."
— from The Banished: A Swabian Historical Tale by Wilhelm Hauff

"He behaved very handsomely, and said he had not presumed to consider me his mouthpiece; and then, too, I am so intimate with L'Estrange."
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. VII, December 1850, Vol. II by Various

The methods adapted to this ideal are simple, not impossible to any, and will become less and less difficult as you continue to make them more and more a real part of your life.
— from Mastery of Self for Wealth, Power, Success by Frank C. (Frank Channing) Haddock

He at once sent over large numbers, as many as two thousand in a single year.
— from A Brief History of the United States by Joel Dorman Steele

[676] We shall consider some extraordinarily quaint mazes and Troy Towns in a subsequent chapter, but meanwhile it may here be noted that in the Scilly Islands (which the Greeks entitled Hesperides) is a monument thus described: “Close to the edge of the cliff is a curious enclosure called Troy Town, taking its name from the Troy of ancient history; the streets of ancient Troy were so constructed that an enemy, once within the gates, could not find his way out again.
— from Archaic England An Essay in Deciphering Prehistory from Megalithic Monuments, Earthworks, Customs, Coins, Place-names, and Faerie Superstitions by Harold Bayley

Many avow that there is a single substance which is also the first, from which are all things, but what that substance is, is not known.
— from Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Emanuel Swedenborg

They have been much addicted to the invasion and subjection of their neighbours, and they are not yet entirely tamed, being established in a very inaccessible country.
— from The travels of Pedro de Cieza de Léon, A.D. 1532-50, contained in the first part of his Chronicle of Peru by Pedro de Cieza de León