seem plunged in quiet slumber, it alone absurdly and inappropriately towers, an oppressive mass of stone, above the modest landscape, spoils the general harmony, and keeps sleepless vigil as though it could not escape from burdensome memories of past unforgiven sins.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Under General MacArthur, OWI participated under strict Army control.
— from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger

Fear you not that: if we can make our peace Upon such large terms and so absolute As our conditions shall consist upon, Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare

[352] The women will readily do that, so long as society will not entirely deny them the company of the man or place upon such company the stigma that generally attaches to it.
— from The Iron Ration: Three Years in Warring Central Europe by George Abel Schreiner

"How about beaming your own broadcasts to millions of people using someone else's satellite?"
— from Terminal Compromise by Winn Schwartau

What a lesson he gave me of patience under sufferings which the fearful description of the Eastern poet does not picture too vividly!
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works by Oliver Wendell Holmes

We English have so scanty a stock of superstitions, and some of these so wanting in refinement and dignity, as, for instance, the “crossing out” of an isolated magpie, the ejection of spilt salt over the left shoulder, deviations into the gutter to avoid a ladder, the mastication of pancakes upon Shrove Tuesday, and the like, that we are glad of any pretext for gratifying that innate love of the marvellous, which exists, more or less, in us all,—ay, and will exist, until John Bright is Premier of England, and our Fairy Tales and Arabian Nights, and all our books of pleasant fiction are solemnly burnt at Oxford, before a Synod of costive Quakers.
— from A Little Tour in Ireland by S. Reynolds (Samuel Reynolds) Hole

How is such a heart to be touched or moved, or placed under such influences as could move it?
— from Public School Education by Michael Müller

She rejected my offers, picked up snow to throw in my face, covered me with her French sarcasms, danced around me in circles, laughed, and mocked, until I was at a loss to know whether she was human.
— from Castle Nowhere by Constance Fenimore Woolson

"I feel a little mite onfriendly, putting up signs like that 'fore my neighbours," he admitted, "but the fact is, it ain't the neighbours so much as it's boys that need raising, an' them town creatures who call themselves sportsmen, an' kill a hummin'-bird to see if they can hit it.
— from The Song of the Cardinal by Gene Stratton-Porter

The editorial says, "The utmost confidence is felt that we can maintain our position until succor comes from outside.
— from Famous Adventures and Prison Escapes of the Civil War by Basil Wilson Duke

While she wore herself out devising methods of patching up some sort of costume, the most glorious dresses hung by the dozens in her old closets, dresses which Konrad had not seen, because he had never gone to any festive gathering with her.
— from The Song of Songs by Hermann Sudermann