And trust me, love, in my eye so do you.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

There be now, for martial encouragement, some degrees and orders of chivalry, which, nevertheless, are conferred promiscuously upon soldiers and no 194 soldiers; and some remembrance, perhaps, upon the escutcheon, and some hospitals for maimed soldiers, and such like things; but in ancient times, the trophies erected upon the place of the victory; the funeral laudatives, 350 and monuments for those that died in the wars; the crowns and garlands personal; the style of emperor which the great kings of the world after borrowed; the triumphs of the generals upon their return; the great donatives and largesses upon the disbanding of the armies; were things able to inflame all men’s courages.
— from Bacon's Essays, and Wisdom of the Ancients by Francis Bacon

En la noche, la oscuridad del bosque es imponente, misterioso el silencio de aquel vasto recinto, y poético el murmurio del viento rumoroso.
— from Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader by Ernesto Nelson

It seemed to the boy that the man had but one object in view, to make everyone seem despicable.
— from Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life by Sherwood Anderson

31 and 32 ).—To sew linen, or webbed buttons on to underclothing, fasten in your thread with a stitch or two, at the place where the button is to be; bring the needle out through the middle of the button, and make eight stitches, diverging from the centre like a star, and if you like, encircle them by a row of stitching, as in fig.
— from Encyclopedia of Needlework by Thérèse de Dillmont

When was man ever so devoted, so devoid of all selfishness, so attached to employers, yet poorer than herself, as this uneducated Irishwoman?
— from Roughing It in the Bush by Susanna Moodie

He and Mrs. Elvsted sit down and proceed with their work.
— from Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

The holy angel, immediately laying hold of the man, threw him back into the fire, and the malignant enemy said, “Do not reject him whom you before received; for as you received the goods of the sinner, so you ought to share in his punishment.”
— from Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, the Venerable, Saint

For a moment everything seemed dark before him.
— from Berenice by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Rev. M. E. STRIEBY, D.D., 56 Reade Street, N.Y. TREASURER.
— from The American Missionary — Volume 36, No. 3, March, 1882 by Various

Some even more envenomed scandals drove her to a curiosity that was greater than Psyche’s.
— from Paz (La Fausse Maitresse) by Honoré de Balzac

How my eyes strained despairingly as I cursed the pitiless darkness!
— from Under the Andes by Rex Stout

No one said anything for a little time, until at last Mr. Elliott spoke: "Do I correctly understand from this report," says he, touching the papers which lay upon the table as he spoke, "that Mr. Longways betrayed the nature of the contents of the despatch-box both to you and to Captain Leach?"
— from The Rose of Paradise Being a detailed account of certain adventures that happened to captain John Mackra, in connection with the famous pirate, Edward England, in the year 1720, off the Island of Juanna in the Mozambique Channel; writ by himself, and now for the first time published by Howard Pyle

For her, and thee, and for no other, She prayed the moment ere she died: Prayed that the babe for whom she died, 630 Might prove her dear lord's joy and pride!
— from The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge