My agony was soothed; I let myself be borne upon the current of this gentle night on which I had my mother by my side.
— from Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

Thou mightst as well say I love to walk by the Counter-gate, which is as hateful to me as the reek of a lime-kiln.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

And the little straight nose, which gives the face its merry, mischievous air when she is laughing, gave it now, with its delicate nostrils, a touching air of femininity.
— from The Admiral: A Romance of Nelson in the Year of the Nile by Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen

The titles of the sections were “Some Children,” “Men and Women,” “Some Incidents,” “London,” “Country Places,” and “Russia.”
— from When Winter Comes to Main Street by Grant M. (Grant Martin) Overton

Moses also was sitting in long-continued prayer, Exod.
— from Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg

Music hall audiences give their applause after the turn, not before, as a rule, save when some special favorite like Miss Vesta Tilley or Mr. Albert Chevalier or—oh, I micht as weel say it like old Harry Lauder!—comes on!
— from Between You and Me by Lauder, Harry, Sir

Many Americans were settled in Louisiana, and it was already generally believed that the country would soon be annexed to the United States.
— from Daniel Boone, Backwoodsman by C. H. Forbes-Lindsay

“The theory of selection teaches that in the 121 life of mankind, as in that of plants and animals, it is always and everywhere a small and privileged minority alone which succeeds in living and developing itself; the immense majority, on the contrary suffer and succumb more or less prematurely.
— from Evolution Social and Organic by Arthur M. (Arthur Morrow) Lewis