Grave-clothes are not more grim and sombre made Than are these helms; the deaf and sealed-up graves Are not more icy than these arms; the staves Of hideous biers have not their joints more strong
— from Poems by Victor Hugo

From early evening till late at night she could hear the music in the theatre and the bursting of the rockets; and it seemed to her that Kukin was roaring and battling with his fate and taking his chief enemy, the indifferent public, by assault.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Remember that a man in the prime of years has an appetite like a wolf; and as he passed a restaurant he could see a round-faced, holland-shirted, snow-white aproned fellow of a French chef preparing a dish delicious enough to make it turn to and eat itself; while, again, as he passed a fruit shop he could see delicacies looking out of a window for fools to come and buy them at a hundred roubles apiece.
— from Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol

Secondly, though these my principles make appearances of the representations of the senses, they are so far from turning the truth of experience into mere illusion, that they are rather the only means of preventing the transcendental illusion, by which metaphysics has hitherto been deceived, leading to the childish endeavor of catching at bubbles, because appearances, which are mere representations, were taken for things in themselves.
— from Kant's Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics by Immanuel Kant

They linger not in counsel, nor does Acestes decline his bidden duty: they enrol the matrons in their town, and plant a people there, souls that will have none of glory.
— from The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

When Paul had scampered away to do his “daily duty” Mr. Irving talked to Anne of various matters.
— from Anne of Avonlea by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Footnote markers in the text are hyperlinked to the footnotes located at the end of the book.
— from Scurvy, Past and Present by Alfred F. Hess

What I mean is that that asset alone is not sufficient for the work.
— from Fathers and Sons by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev

I suppose the people who admired him for them in his youth attached too much importance to them and too little to any training that would have balanced and adjusted them, and so he became what he is.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens

2 timepiece synchronized with another, musical instrument tuned to another.
— from A Dictionary of Cebuano Visayan by John U. Wolff

But for customary "entertaining," those who "live quietly," with possibly but one domestic to assist with the dinner, will show good sense in not attempting anything more imposing than they are able to compass successfully.
— from Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton

By the time Blue Bonnet had reached her own action [ 213 ] of that very morning in tearing the apron forcibly from Sarah's shoulders, she was dumb with shame.
— from Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party by Caroline Elliott Hoogs Jacobs

Half the Manchesters have just marched in to trumpet and drum.
— from Ladysmith: The Diary of a Siege by Henry Woodd Nevinson

No money at all was being minted in the Tower, and a heavy export of our metals to Scotland and Ireland was taking place.
— from The History of Currency, 1252 to 1896 by William Arthur Shaw

“How far,” says Lingard, “these confessions made in the Tower, and probably on the rack, are deserving of credit, may be doubted” (ed. 1849, vol.
— from Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals by Alfred Marks

The tide reached a high mark in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries under that extraordinary intellectual awakening which distinguished the epoch of the Crusades, the Stauffen emperors, the Minnesingers, and the court epic poets.
— from Music in the History of the Western Church With an Introduction on Religious Music Among Primitive and Ancient Peoples by Edward Dickinson

About twenty years ago the gaol-fever was in this prison; some died there, and many in the town, among whom was Mr Daniel, the surgeon who attended the prisoners.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton

When Man is the Turk, and the Atheist, Essene, Erastian Whig, And the Thug and the Druse and the Catholic, And the crew of the Captain's gig.
— from Poems by G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton