James Rose, a non-jurant (i.e. one who refused to acknowledge allegiance to the Hanoverian King), was a man of devout, large, and tolerant mind, as shown by writings still extant.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

How blest, mine own dear love, am I; Thou, fond and true, art ever nigh, And duteous, faithful Lakshmaṇ stays Beside me, and my word obeys.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

But, irreverently consorting with these grave, reputable, and pious people, these elders of the church, these chaste dames and dewy virgins, there were men of dissolute lives and women of spotted fame, wretches given over to all mean and filthy vice, and suspected even of horrid crimes.
— from Mosses from an Old Manse, and Other Stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Must one die like a dog?” said he.
— from War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

The animal at last, through fatigue, stopped, and he found, by the glare of lightning, that he was in the neighbourhood of a hovel that hardly lifted itself up from the masses of dead leaves and brushwood which surrounded it.
— from The Vampyre; a Tale by John William Polidori

Since I had resided at the Hermitage, Diderot incessantly harrassed me, either himself or by means of De Leyre, and I soon perceived from the pleasantries of the latter upon my ramblings in the groves, with what pleasure he had travestied the hermit into the gallant shepherd.
— from The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau — Complete by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

But that they to whom God has given, as He has to us, to be the founders of a new state as yet free from enmity—that they should create themselves enmities by their mode of distributing lands and houses, would be superhuman folly and wickedness.
— from Laws by Plato

'Level up,' but not down, was Judge Story's maxim of democratic levelling, as he began his political career.
— from Extracts from the Diary and Correspondence of the Late Amos Lawrence; with a brief account of some incidents of his life by Amos Lawrence

When my own dear lads are safely settled I'll never try another, for these things are heart-breaking, and I can't manage any more,' thought Mrs Jo, as she put the lining into Teddy's coat-sleeve upside down, so perplexed and grieved was she at this new catastrophe.
— from Jo's Boys by Louisa May Alcott

The omission of the break at the sixtieth second, made the mark of double length, and hence the beginning of the minute was easily recognized.
— from The National Geographic Magazine, Vol. II., No. 1, April, 1890 by Various

You can see then very readily how a telegraphic alphabet can be constructed by combinations of marks of different lengths agreed upon to represent different letters and numerals.
— from Science for the School and Family, Part I. Natural Philosophy by Worthington Hooker

An even more important contributor to this mode of dramatic literature and very significant predecessor of Shakespeare was John Heywood, a friend and neighbor of Sir Thomas
— from The Century of Columbus by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh

The fragments were embedded in a mixture of decomposed lava and sand.
— from Coral Reefs; Volcanic Islands; South American Geology — Complete by Charles Darwin

O. W. Childs, famous for the water ditch which he constructed and for which he received most of downtown Los Angeles in payment, likewise bought a few interests.
— from The Romance of the Ranchos by E. Palmer Conner

But now, as in its past history, the United States should carefully avoid the false lights which might lead it into the mazes of doubtful law and of questionable propriety, and adhere rigidly and sternly to the rule, which has been its guide, of doing only that which is right and honest and of good report.
— from Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War by William McKinley