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

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

Come, Mr. Emerson, sit down after all your energy.”
— from A Room with a View by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster

[603] :—‘In the dusk of the evening’ (just the time when fairies are most easily seen) ‘during a séance with Mr. Home at my house, the curtains of a window about eight feet from Mr. Home were seen to move.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

I especially remember the tenderness with which my mother tried to soothe me in my waling hours of fret and pain, and the agony and bewilderment with which I awoke after a tossing half sleep, and turned my eyes, so dry and hot, to the wall away from the once-loved light, which came to me dim and yet more dim each day.
— from The Story of My Life With her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy by Helen Keller

Of those to whom they have given a body, as necessity required in that universal blindness, I should, I fancy, most incline to those who adored the sun:— La Lumire commune, L’oil du monde; et si Dieu au chef porte des yeux, Les rayons du soleil sont ses yeulx radieux, Qui donnent vie touts, nous maintiennent et gardent, Et les faictsdes humains en ce monde regardent: Ce beau, ce grand soleil qui nous faict les saisons, Selon qu’il entre ou sort de ses douze maisons; Qui remplit l’univers de ses vertus cognues; Qui d’un traict de ses yeulx nous dissipe les nues; L’esprit, l’ame du monde, ardent et flamboyant, En la course d’un jour tout le Ciel tournoyant; Plein d’immense grandeur, rond, vagabond, et ferme; Lequel tient dessoubs luy tout le monde pour terme:
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

Every morning ere sunrise did Amadeo return; but could hear only from the labourers in the field that Monna Tita was ill, because she had promised to take the veil and had not taken it, knowing, as she must do, that the heavenly bridegroom is a bridegroom never to be trifled with, let the spouse be young and beautiful as she may be.
— from Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection by Walter Savage Landor

The cathedral, whose memories embrace St. Dunstan and St. Wulfstan and that stout-hearted old martyr of Oxford, Bishop Latimer—who had himself once presided at the burning of a friar—uplifted our hearts with its august vista of nave and choir.
— from From Gretna Green to Land's End: A Literary Journey in England. by Katharine Lee Bates

They must either scramble down and wade or swim across, or else turn inland and make a long détour round the head of the chasm.
— from Parkhurst Boys, and Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed

[108] The following are the names of the principal mounds seen during this day’s march: Ermah, Shibbit, Duroge, Addiyah, Abou-Kubbah, and Kharala, each name being preceded by the Arabic word Tel, i. e. mound.
— from Discoveries Among the Ruins of Nineveh and Babylon by Austen Henry Layard

Then came Massatan Wague, a Marabou, who told me what I have above related, and how I had been arrested with an intention to destroy me, and take what I had; that Sibila had been the means of my escaping such danger, and had saved my life; to which story I gave little credit, knowing well the reason why they shewed me such mercy; but I thanked God alone for my preservation.
— from The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805 Together with Other Documents, Official and Private, Relating to the Same Mission, to Which Is Prefixed an Account of the Life of Mr. Park by Mungo Park

Every professional man, every silly doctor and scientist holds some title by the hand with which he is clubbing us on the head.
— from The convolvulus: a comedy in three acts by Allen Norton

"Is it mischievous?" "Er—" said Denis, and his eye twinkled, "she was when she was a puppy, you see."
— from The Young O'Briens: Being an Account of Their Sojourn in London by Margaret Westrup

And that she may not afterwards be troubled with a surplus of milk, she must eat such diet as give but little nourishment, and keep her body open.
— from The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle