"Without counting that in any case, the time would be ill-chosen were I now to make such an effort, for never have I been so tormented as since my conversion; Catholicism unfortunately excites unclean suggestions when I prowl about it, without entering."
— from En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans

Then the two men closed completely upon each other—and the death-struggle commenced!
— from The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4 by George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

Meanwhile a band of high-spirited and profligate young men, called Compagnacci, used every occasion to insult and interrupt him.
— from Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots by John Addington Symonds

The same disease was likewise one of those blessings which the mad crusades conferred upon Europe; since which time, to the close of the eighteenth century, not a hope had been held out of its extirpation when, happily, the invaluable discovery of the cow-pock, or rather the general [351] application of that discovery, which had long been confined to a particular district, has furnished abundant grounds to hope, that this desirable event may now be accomplished.
— from Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton by Barrow, John, Sir

To pray together in the same language, whatever be the form of worship, is the most pathetic bond of fraternity, of hope, and of sympathy, which men can contract upon earth.
— from Corinne; Or, Italy. Volume 1 (of 2) by Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël

Not that we believe that Keats was incapable of or averse to 'fundamental brain-work'—he had an understanding more robust, firmer in its hold of reality, more closely cast upon experience, than any one of his great contemporaries, Wordsworth not excepted—but at that phase in his evolution he was simply not concerned with understanding.
— from Aspects of Literature by John Middleton Murry

The Captain and my captain came up every few moments to reason with me and to invite me down, but I shook my wilful head at them.
— from When We Were Strolling Players in the East by Louise Jordan Miln

Il me choisit comme un enfant qu'il aime
— from Popular Tales by Charles Perrault

From our camp we used to watch the Monsoon clouds come up every day through the gorge in thin wisps, but every day they melted away always at the same spot; and though rain fell heavily a mile below us, yet with us the sun shone brightly, and it was rare for any rain to reach us.
— from Mount Everest, the Reconnaissance, 1921 by A. F. R. (Alexander Frederick Richmond) Wollaston

On one occasion the Russian riflemen and our own men came close upon each other in a quarry before the town.
— from The British Expedition to the Crimea by Russell, William Howard, Sir