No man can read such records without finding his own boyhood again, and his own abounding joy of life, in the poet's early impressions.
— from English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English-Speaking World by William J. (William Joseph) Long

On the most modest computation, reckoning seven kopecks a soul and five souls a family, one needs three hundred and fifty roubles a day to feed a thousand families.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

The windings and the numerous peaks of mountains, their ridges, bent into angles or broken into defiles, with the hollow valleys, by their irregular forms, cleaving the air which rebounds from them (which is also the cause why voices are, in many cases, repeated several times in succession), give rise to winds.
— from The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 1 (of 6) by the Elder Pliny

Ille vir, haud magna cum re, sed plenus fidei —He is a man, not of large fortune, but full of good faith.
— 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.

And besides that, my cousin Richard said himself, that when it came to the point he was afraid Mr. Ferrars would be off; and when Edward did not come near us for three days, I could not tell what to think myself; and I believe in my heart Lucy gave it up all for lost; for we came away from your brother's Wednesday, and we saw nothing of him not all Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and did not know what was become of him.
— from Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Time wore on at the Grange in its former pleasant way till Miss Cathy reached sixteen.
— from Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

We were about half-way between the cutter and the ship, when a bank of mist came rolling slowly along from the southern horizon, the opposite extremities seeming to close in, till a circle was formed around us, still, however, having the cutter and the ship within its confines.
— from Salt Water: The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman by William Henry Giles Kingston

Does not my critic really see that this whole notion of national possessions benefiting the individual is founded [Pg 46] on mystification, upon an illusion?
— from The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Norman Angell

Mr. Cuthbert Rampant shared her emotion.
— from The Sailor by J. C. (John Collis) Snaith

At seven in the morning Catherine reached St. Petersburg.
— from The Girls' Book of Famous Queens by Lydia Hoyt Farmer

A man, by this specious appearance, has often acquired that appellation who, in all the actions of private life, has been a morose, cruel, revengeful, sullen, haughty tyrant. Let them put on the cap, whose temples fit the galling wreath!
— from Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World by Anonymous

With a gently undulating surface and a diversity of vale and wood scenery unrivalled, the natural loveliness of this state is disfigured by zigzag, or Virginia fences, which [Pg 108] stretch along the sides of the most charming roads, surround the loveliest cottages, or rudely encroach upon the snowy palings that enclose them, and intersect the finest eminences and fairest champaigns.
— from The South-West, by a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by J. H. (Joseph Holt) Ingraham

Mountain climbing requires some hard work.
— from Certain Success by Norval A. Hawkins

Who, it seemed, had cut his matrimonial career rather short, by unlawfully running away from his happiness, and establishing himself in foreign countries as a bachelor.
— from Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens

Late in the evening a troop of twenty maharees came riding straight up to our tents.
— from Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government by James Richardson