The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step, On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies.
— from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

The notary, after having, according to the customary method, arranged the papers on the table, taken his place in an armchair, and raised his spectacles, turned towards Franz: “Are you M. Franz de Quesnel, baron d’Épinay?” asked he, although he knew it perfectly.
— from The Count of Monte Cristo, Illustrated by Alexandre Dumas

My father dead, my fortune lives for me; And I do hope good days and long to see.
— from The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

Too sure I find, while I the tortures prove Of feeble piety, conflicting love, On black despair my forc'd devotion's built; Absence for me has sharper pangs than guilt.
— from Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix'd a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Héloïse

(4) It prevented man from despising himself as man, from turning against life, and from being driven to despair by knowledge: it was a self-preservative measure.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

The reflections which this subject arouses, and which Plato formerly made, deserve to be more fully developed by a pen worthy of following so great a master, and defending so great a cause.
— from The Social Contract & Discourses by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But, in fine, all shall now withdraw for this day; and meet again, each Order in its separate place, to-morrow morning, for despatch of business.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Vitality had not altogether departed, and she was aroused by the caresses of her lover from the lethargy which had been mistaken for death.
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes by Edgar Allan Poe

But the horror of what lay at my feet drove me from the Hollow and drove me the wrong way.
— from Dark Hollow by Anna Katharine Green

When my friend De Meglior in that most solemn hour before his death confided to me the care of his daughter, I thought the companion I sought for was found; but Euphrasie soon showed herself so visibly the elected bride of heaven that all my anxiety was quickly directed to preserving her from sacrilege.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 05, April 1867 to September 1867 by Various

This was too much for Dinwiddie to swallow, so he vetoed the bill.
— from Give Me Liberty: The Struggle for Self-Government in Virginia by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker

Mutual fears drew them together; they talked and wept and encouraged each other, and always parted with the one whispered word—" To-morrow. "
— from The Lion's Whelp: A Story of Cromwell's Time by Amelia E. Barr

Full of sympathy as he was for his fellows, and agitated at times by the same warlike impulses, he could not give himself rein as they did, nor dared to raise any encouraging strain in his writing, as others felt that they might freely do.
— from A Study of Hawthorne by George Parsons Lathrop

Here she left me, giving me certain fairy powers over the Mimics and instructing me that I was to remain here at all times as the Guardian of Oz to prevent the Mimics from doing any harm to the Oz people should the evil creatures ever succeed in lifting Queen Lurline's spell.
— from The Magical Mimics in Oz by Jack Snow

Mrs. Franklin D. Richards is the most prominent organizer outside of the metropolis of Utah, having Ogden and Weber counties under her direction.
— from The Women of Mormondom by Edward W. (Edward William) Tullidge

Westall's menacing figure darkened all his sky for him.
— from Marcella by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

When the High Court of Errors and Appeals of Mississippi first decided this question, it was composed of Chief Justice Sharkey, and Justices Turner and Trotter (one of the framers of the Constitution).
— from The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 2, August, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various