Just at that moment we heard a loud shout from all parts of the deck, and the mate called out down the companion-way to the captain, who was sitting in the cabin.
— from Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

These news, my lords, may cheer our drooping spirits: 'Tis said the stout Parisians do revolt And turn again unto the warlike French.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

Again, it may be asked, how is it that varieties, which I have called incipient species, become ultimately converted into good and distinct species, which in most cases obviously differ from each other far more than do the varieties of the same species?
— from The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life, 6th Edition by Charles Darwin

Both are hypotyposes, i.e. presentations ( exhibitiones ); not mere characterisations , or designations of concepts by accompanying sensible signs which contain nothing belonging to the intuition of the Object, and only serve as a means for reproducing the concepts, according to the law of association of the Imagination, and consequently in a subjective point of view.
— from Kant's Critique of Judgement by Immanuel Kant

He must confide the glory of his reign and the safety of his states to the general most capable of directing his armies.
— from The Art of War by Jomini, Antoine Henri, baron de

O dear to me my birth-things—all moving things and the trees where I was born—the grains, plants, rivers, Dear to me my own slow sluggish rivers where they flow, distant, over flats of slivery sands or through swamps, Dear to me the Roanoke, the Savannah, the Altamahaw, the Pedee, the Tombigbee, the Santee, the Coosa and the Sabine, O pensive, far away wandering, I return with my soul to haunt their banks again, Again in Florida I float on transparent lakes, I float on the Okeechobee, I cross the hummock-land or through pleasant openings or dense forests, I see the parrots in the woods, I see the papaw-tree and the blossoming titi; Again, sailing in my coaster on deck, I coast off Georgia, I coast up the Carolinas, I see where the live-oak is growing, I see where the yellow-pine, the scented bay-tree, the lemon and orange, the cypress, the graceful palmetto, I pass rude sea-headlands and enter Pamlico sound through an inlet, and dart my vision inland; O the cotton plant!
— from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

The charm of the Mediterranean coast only deepened for our heroine on acquaintance, for it was the threshold of Italy, the gate of admirations.
— from The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1 by Henry James

In English law a male at fourteen and a female at twelve may consent or disagree to marriage, but it cannot be celebrated without the consent of the parents or guardians until the parties are of age.
— from The New Gresham Encyclopedia. A to Amide Vol. 1 Part 1 by Various

The captain and mate came on deck as often as they were able, which was now but seldom; for they declined so fast, that they were not well enough to make observations above four or five times the whole voyage.
— from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African Written By Himself by Olaudah Equiano

What more can one desire?
— from The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People by Oscar Wilde

"A man can only do his best, Dora," he said gently, moved by her honest friendship, simple wild thing though she was.
— from Trail's End by George W. (George Washington) Ogden

Stock plays were always followed by an afterpiece, but the afterpiece was in most cases omitted during the first run of a new play.
— from Critical Strictures on the New Tragedy of Elvira, Written by Mr. David Malloch by George Dempster

As they are one moment capable of higher courage, so they are liable, the next, to baser depression, and it is often a matter of chance whether numbers shall multiply confidence or discouragement.
— from The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays by James Russell Lowell

She had insisted on contributing to the expenses of the expedition, almost against Captain Young’s wishes, who felt by no means confident of doing anything that would entitle him to accept her willing contribution.”
— from The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Frederick Whymper

Neither in manners, customs or dress was there any very great difference between these natives and those belonging to the upper parts of the Upper Congo.
— from In Darkest Africa, Vol. 1; or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of Equatoria by Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley

It strikes an awe And terror on my aching sight; the tombs And monumental caves of death look cold, And shoot a chillness to my trembling heart.
— from Lives of the English Poets : Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, Pope by Samuel Johnson

The manuscript catalogue of Dukes goes only as far as 1856.
— from Studies in Judaism, First Series by S. (Solomon) Schechter

Do we find it difficult to rise as early on that day as during the week, that with the morning we may commence our duties? Let conscience speak, and we shall wake early.
— from The Sabbath at Home by Silas M. (Silas Milton) Andrews

Her eyes shone like those of a startled bird who awaits only a shade more certainty of danger to dart from the spot.
— from The Opened Shutters: A Novel by Clara Louise Burnham