It might escape the hideousness of sin, but the hideousness of age was in store for it.
— from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

I recognise thee now; and long have I mourned thee as dead, I, and my sister, thy mother, and all thy kin that are still alive, and whom God has been pleased to preserve that they may enjoy the happiness of seeing thee.
— from Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This roughness gives wool a clinging power which exceeds that of any other material, except the hair of some few animals.
— from Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess

When Jesus cast the evil spirits from the men coming out of the tombs, so eager were they to possess some physical tabernacle, that they besought Him that they might enter the herd of swine.
— from Cowley's Talks on Doctrine by Matthias F. Cowley

The pressure released from his body, ever so little, Tad by a supreme muscular effort, threw his opponent slightly to one side, and quickly wormed himself from under.
— from The Pony Rider Boys in Montana; Or, The Mystery of the Old Custer Trail by Frank Gee Patchin

How I am to maintain even this handful of soldiers—for the army is diminished to such a mere handful that it would astonish your Majesty—I am unable to imagine.
— from History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) by John Lothrop Motley

Careful records of auroral phenomena from both ships may enable the height of some, observed from both, to be determined.
— from Auroræ: Their Characters and Spectra by J. Rand Capron

For if he loved any creature more than another on this earth--more than Madame l'Intendante, more even than his own son--that creature was Urbaine.
— from The Scourge of God: A Romance of Religious Persecution by John Bloundelle-Burton

[Pg 233] All the traditions of early times make Ephesus the home of St. John in the latter part of his life.
— from A Life of St. John for the Young by George Ludington Weed

Antiquarian Society, Proceedings , 1887; Fiske, John, Old Virginia and her Neighbors , II, 174-369; Greene, E.B., Provincial America , 270-342; Hart, A.B., Contemporaries , II, 224-311; Johnson, E.R., and others, History of Domestic and Foreign Commerce of the United States , I, 84-121; Kalm, Peter, Travels in North America , in Pinkerton, Travels , XIII, 374-700; McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 , pp.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton

6-77; Casgrain, R.R., Wolfe and Montcalm ; Channing, Edward, A History of the United States , II, 550-599; Clowes, W.L., The Royal Navy , III, 138-255; Kingsford, W., The History of Canada , III, 387-568, IV.; Lucas, C.P., A Historical Geography of the British Colonies , V, 216-328; McCrady, Edward, The History of South Carolina under the Royal Government, 1719-1776 , pp.
— from The Colonization of North America, 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton