The bottom of the ladder would have left some marks in the soft earth beneath the window; but there were none.
— from The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar by Maurice Leblanc

One of the great lessons, for example, which society has to teach its members is that society exists.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana

On the Pont au Change, on the Place de Greve, in long sheds, Mercier, in these summer evenings, saw working men at their repast.
— from The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle

Even Hungary was divided by faction, or restrained by a laudable scruple; and the relics of the crusade that marched in the second expedition were reduced to an inadequate force of twenty thousand men.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

The Lady of Shalott Mariana in the South Eleänore The Miller's Daughter Fatima OEnone The Sisters To ­ ­
— from The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson by Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron

Waterloo, moreover, is the strangest encounter in history.
— from Les Misérables by Victor Hugo

[ Faciunt favos et vespae; faciunt ecclesias et Marcionitae, is the strong expression of Tertullian, which I am obliged to quote from memory.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

But the heart of man is the same everywhere, and there are the children of this world and the children of light there as well as elsewhere.
— from Adam Bede by George Eliot

However, it is not my intention to speak evil of distinguished men.
— from The Satyricon — Complete by Petronius Arbiter

There a patron could sip his coffee, or a more stimulating drink, and look over his mail in the same exclusiveness affected by the Londoner of the time.
— from All About Coffee by William H. (William Harrison) Ukers

It is the Kernel from which proceed to spread on their cyclic journeys all the Powers that set in action the Atoms, in their functional duties, and the Focus within which they again meet in their Seventh Essence every eleventh year.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

He turned it away, and Lady Markland, in the sweet enthusiasm of the moment, fortunately did not perceive that change.
— from A Country Gentleman and His Family by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant

Rounding Dunollie Point, and passing the Maiden Island, the steamer enters on the broad waters of Loch Linnie, and here a magnificent scene opens on us.
— from The Cruise of the Elena; Or, Yachting in the Hebrides by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

On a carv'd sill I leant (A fleur-de-lis bound with an English rose) And look'd above me into two such eyes As would have dazzl'd from that ancient page That new old cry that hearts so often write In their own ashes, "All is vanity!" "Know'st thou—" she said, with tender eyes far-fix'd, On the wide arch that domes our little earth, "That when a star hurls on with shining wings, "On some swift message from his throne of light, "The ready heart may wish, and the ripe fruit— "Fulfilment—drop into the eager palm?" "Then let us watch for such a star," quoth I. "Nay, love," she said, "'Tis but an idle tale."
— from Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems by Isabella Valancy Crawford

But he is like other men in the same environment, and, like them, when inclination prompts, he falls.
— from Crimes of Preachers in the United States and Canada by M. E. Billings

Standing on the deck, and looking overhead as we swiftly ploughed our smooth way at a great height through the now imperceptible atmosphere of the planet, I saw the two moons of Mars meeting in the sky exactly above us.
— from Edison's Conquest of Mars by Garrett Putman Serviss

Another source of happiness to the human mind is the simple exercise of its intellectual powers.
— from Common Sense Applied to Religion; Or, The Bible and the People by Catharine Esther Beecher

And we do hereby most strictly command and enjoin, that no Scholar, Critic, Wit, Orthographer, or Scribbler, shall, by gibes, sneers, jests, judgments, quibbles, or criticisms, molest, interrupt, incommode, disturb, or confound the said Thomas Warton, or break the peace of his orderly, quiet, pains-taking, and inoffensive Muse, in the said exercise of his said duty.
— from The Rolliad, in Two Parts Probationary Odes for the Laureatship & Political Eclogues by Joseph Richardson

With an outfit the size of ours, that keeps me in the saddle every day and all day; and I would have some narrow escapes, I reckon.
— from Jean of the Lazy A by B. M. Bower

It does not indicate a serious frame of mind in the speaker. Extend for Proffer .
— from Write It Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults by Ambrose Bierce