And this morning when I opened the Bible for direction, the first words my eyes fell on were, 'And after we had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia.'
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

Of labouring oxen, and five hundred She-asses: but for every one of those, Had they been valu'd at indifferent rate, I had at home, and in mine argosy, And other ships that came from Egypt last, As much as would have bought his beasts and him, And yet have kept enough to live upon; So that not he, but I, may curse the day, Thy fatal birth-day, forlorn Barabas; And henceforth wish for an eternal night, That clouds of darkness may inclose my flesh, And hide these extreme sorrows from mine eyes; For only I have toil'd to inherit here
— from The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe

We may meanwhile perceive perfectly well that the other person is the better performer, and yet nevertheless—at times—get more enjoyment from our own playing because it brings the [Pg 327] melody and harmony so much nearer home to us.
— from The Principles of Psychology, Volume 1 (of 2) by William James

It is not ours to make election for ourselves: heaven, our fathers, and our husbands must decide for us.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

I had with me some books necessary to this purpose; I had spent two months in making extracts from others, I had borrowed from the king’s library, whence I was permitted to take several to the Hermitage.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

You speak with about as little reflection as we might expect from one of those children down there playing in the sand.
— from The Awakening, and Selected Short Stories by Kate Chopin

2 [AP] move, emigrate from one place to another.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

In contrast to all those who are intent on deriving the arts from one exclusive principle, as the necessary vital source of every work of art, I keep my eyes fixed on the two artistic deities of the Greeks, Apollo and Dionysus, and recognise in them the living and conspicuous representatives of two worlds of art which differ in their intrinsic essence and in their highest aims.
— from The Birth of Tragedy; or, Hellenism and Pessimism by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

I come to you with a smile on my lips and a blessing in my bosom, with my hand upon my mutilated heart and my eyes full of pardon, with my purity restored and my soul redeemed by twenty years of fidelity and love, with my delusions swept away and my faith shining.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

Timbestere is a mere English form of the O.F. tymberesse , a player on a timbre .
— from Chaucer's Works, Volume 1 (of 7) — Romaunt of the Rose; Minor Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer

“Ah, there is at last my excellent friend,” observed the agent when he perceived that I had discovered the captain.
— from Peter the Whaler by William Henry Giles Kingston

The remains of what was once a fond mother's darling were buried next day in the old dilapidated Military Cemetery, without a murmer, except from one, a pretty young half-breed mexican damsel, whose tears, no doubt, has dampened the lonely grave more than once.
— from A Texas Cow Boy or, fifteen years on the hurricane deck of a Spanish pony, taken from real life by Charles A. Siringo

Every one seemed to be listening only to the music, equally full of sweetness and majesty—only to have ears for the noble rhythm with which Gluck begins his "Alceste."
— from Marie Antoinette and Her Son by L. (Luise) Mühlbach

I was still tormented by that frightful apprehension of the past night, that she would die without my knowing it—die without saying one word to clear up the awful mystery of this blow, and set the suspicions at rest forever which I still felt whenever my eyes fell on the end of the old cravat.
— from The Queen of Hearts by Wilkie Collins

Seated on a loosened crag, but leaning against the trunk of the cedar, with his arms folded, his mighty eyes fixed on the ground, and his legs crossed with that air of complete repose which indicates that their owner is in no hurry again to move them, was ‘A form, some granite god we deemed, Or king of palmy Nile, colossal shapes Such as Syene’s rosy quarries yield To Memphian art; Horus, Osiris called, Or Amenoph, who, on the Theban plain, With magic melody the sun salutes; Or he, far mightier, to whose conquering car Monarchs were yoked, Rameses: by the Greeks Sesostris styled.
— from The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

Consequently the demand might even fall off three and a half times and still consume the product.
— from Practical Forestry in the Pacific Northwest Protecting Existing Forests and Growing New Ones, from the Standpoint of the Public and That of the Lumberman, with an Outline of Technical Methods by E. T. (Edward Tyson) Allen

His goods were made entirely for one house in St. Paul's Churchyard, until that house became bankrupt in 1834, after which a traveller was sent through England, Scotland and Ireland to take orders.
— from History of Lace by Palliser, Bury, Mrs.

You have my entire forgiveness of the past, even though you do not ask it; but let me not be imposed upon for the future.
— from The History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl by Richard Cobbold

There were hundreds of thousands of shells, millions of rounds of small ammunition; there were stores enough to feed the army for months, there was Russian property valued at millions, there were guns, horses, wagons, railroad material, enough for one hundred and fifty miles of track.
— from The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East by Sydney Tyler