Nor, O my love, be thou dismayed Though Ráma lend Sugríva aid, For one so pure and duteous, one Who loves the right, all sin will shun, Release me from thy soft embrace, And with thy dames thy steps retrace: Enough already, O mine own, Of love and sweet devotion shown.
— from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki

It appeared that within a very few minutes of our leaving, an English lady had arrived who was in the last stage of consumption.
— from The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Yesterday when I passed your old house in the Place Royale, all the memories of our love and happiness awoke again within me.
— from Juliette Drouet's Love-Letters to Victor Hugo Edited with a Biography of Juliette Drouet by Louis Guimbaud

We came to Ipswich—very late, having had to fight every inch of ground since we were ten miles out of London; and found a cluster of people in the market-place, who had risen from their beds in the night, fearful of falling chimneys.
— from David Copperfield by Charles Dickens

Further, the constitution of our consciousness is the ever present and lasting element in all we do or suffer; our individuality is persistently at work, more or less, at every moment of our life: all other influences are temporal, incidental, fleeting, and subject to every kind of chance and change.
— from The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer: the Wisdom of Life by Arthur Schopenhauer

I conclude, looking to the future, that for terrestrial productions a large continental area, which will probably undergo many oscillations of level, and which consequently will exist for long periods in a broken condition, will be the most favourable for the production of many new forms of life, likely to endure long and to spread widely.
— from On the Origin of Species By Means of Natural Selection Or, the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin

So much only of life as I know by experience, so much of the wilderness have I vanquished and planted, or so far have I extended my being, my dominion.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is due, I must add, to the patience and forbearance, to the love and labours, to the life and death, to the mediation and sufferings for me of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
— from Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by Aaron Bernstein

Most of our lives are made up with mending the troubles made by our own sins or our own follies.
— from The Lady of Lynn by Walter Besant

The summit of the mountain presents a mixture of open lawns and woods.
— from Delineations of the Ox Tribe: The Natural History of Bulls, Bisons, and Buffaloes. Exhibiting all the Known Species and the More Remarkable Varieties of the Genus Bos. by George Vasey

When it is most lively the mind creates out of all it feels and hears and sees, taking a simple sight or hint or impression or incident, and working out images, making much out of little, a world out of an atom.
— from Essays Æsthetical by George Henry Calvert

"Well, I brought each of us a little note book; daddy gave them to me," said Madaline, "and let's sit down, and make out our lists and schedules.
— from The Girl Scouts at Bellaire; Or, Maid Mary's Awakening by Lilian Garis

Finally, there were men so constituted that they could decline to take any thought whether slavery were right or wrong, and could deal with every question that arose concerning it as a question of expediency merely, or of law and precedent.
— from Stephen Arnold Douglas by William Garrott Brown

Violent anger would spring up magically out of laughter, and blows out of caresses.
— from The Old Wives' Tale by Arnold Bennett

The abundance of life which Christ offers consists in the mutual offices of love and the interchange of service.
— from Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics by Archibald B. D. (Archibald Browning Drysdale) Alexander