Such music I never dreamed of, and the call in it is stronger even than the music is sweet!
— from The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Whose example, may it not deter other rash Justices; and so this
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Religious melancholy is not disposed of by a simple flourish of the word insanity.
— from Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking by William James

Accustomed to think of no subject foreign to ourselves, our happiness and all our desires were confined to that pleasing and singular union, which, perhaps, had no equal, which is not, as I have before observed, love, but a sentiment inexpressibly more intimate, neither depending on the senses, age, nor figure, but an assemblage of every endearing sensation that composes our rational existence and which can cease only with our being.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Why,” says he, “after all the sickness, and himself spending all the last year in the country, one of his men is now dead of the plague, and his wife and one of his mayds sicke, and himself shut up;” which troubles me mightily.
— from The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by Samuel Pepys

Why may I not demand Of thine affairs as well as thou of mine?
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[171] regions that are far away from the south, the moisture is not drawn out by hot weather, but the atmosphere is full of dampness which diffuses moisture into the system, and makes the frame larger and the pitch of the voice deeper.
— from The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

[71] "Bembo, the great light of the sea–girt queen, The Muse's glory, Bembo hath gone hence; Nor left his equal 'mong the sons of men In noble deeds, or witching eloquence.
— from A Decade of Italian Women, vol. 2 (of 2) by Thomas Adolphus Trollope

The abnormal smokers, or those who use tobacco excessively, have a more and more intense nervous desire or physical need of the narcotic or the circulatory stimulant effect of the tobacco, and, consequently, smoke more and more constantly.
— from Disturbances of the Heart Discussion of the Treatment of the Heart in Its Various Disorders, With a Chapter on Blood Pressure by Oliver T. (Oliver Thomas) Osborne

That morphia is not diametrically opposed to thebaine, as is often stated, since it has, to a certain degree, the convulsive properties of the latter alkaloid.
— from Poisons, Their Effects and Detection A Manual for the Use of Analytical Chemists and Experts by Alexander Wynter Blyth

It was April once more before Dosia Linden came North again, after extending months, in no day of which had her stay seemed anything but temporary—a condition to be ended next week or the week after at farthest.
— from McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

Lest I should be misunderstood, let me observe that this hesitation about the validity of the theory of the Via Media implied no doubt of the three fundamental points on which it was based, as I have described above, dogma, the sacramental system, and opposition to the Church of Rome.
— from Apologia pro Vita Sua by John Henry Newman

He chooses his ministers independently of the Congress, and the ministry is not dependent on the Congress; in other words, there is a concentration of power and also the continuity of it, though the person of the President may change after a certain lapse of time.
— from A Fantasy of Far Japan; Or, Summer Dream Dialogues by Kencho Suematsu

But morality is not dependent on censorship for protection.
— from The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet by Bernard Shaw

‘You have still to learn,’ said Jasper, ‘that modesty helps a man in no department of modern life.
— from New Grub Street by George Gissing