In the Library at Dresden there is a series of old pictures said to be Mexican, and which I was told had been purchased from a Jew in Vienna, containing devils mainly of serpent characters blended with those of humanity.
— from Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway

However I with thee have fixt my Lot, Certain to undergoe like doom, if Death Consort with thee, Death is to mee as Life; So forcible within my heart I feel The Bond of Nature draw me to my owne, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our State cannot be severd, we are one, One Flesh; to loose thee were to loose my self.
— from The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton

Mr. Rushworth was eager to assure her ladyship of his acquiescence, and tried to make out something complimentary; but, between his submission to her taste, and his having always intended the same himself, with the superadded objects of professing attention to the comfort of ladies in general, and of insinuating that there was one only whom he was anxious to please, he grew puzzled, and Edmund was glad to put an end to his speech by a proposal of wine.
— from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen

He was a master of several curious, but useless sciences, a ready orator, an elegant poet, 153 a skilful gardener, an excellent cook, and most contemptible prince.
— 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 Hospital was to be reserved for fever in all its forms; Lydgate was to be chief medical superintendent, that he might have free authority to pursue all comparative investigations which his studies, particularly in Paris, had shown him the importance of, the other medical visitors having a consultative influence, but no power to contravene Lydgate's ultimate decisions; and the general management was to be lodged exclusively in the hands of five directors associated with Mr. Bulstrode, who were to have votes in the ratio of their contributions, the Board itself filling up any vacancy in its numbers, and no mob of small contributors being admitted to a share of government.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot

Well, my dear parents, I think this last rule crowns the rest, and makes them all very tolerable; and a generous man, and a man of sense, cannot be too much obliged.
— from Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson

Narrow modes of skill cannot be made useful beyond themselves; any mode of skill which is achieved with deepening of knowledge and perfecting of judgment is readily put to use in new situations and is under personal control.
— from Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey

The intelligent community are now acquainted with many of these important facts, so that no man of science can be found in this enlightened age who can popularly be termed a Christian.
— from The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves

[Pg 171] sojourn amid natural conditions is considered a great trial of patience—a sort of martyrdom; one studies contempt, both in one's attitudes and one's looks towards all "natural things."
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book I and II by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

As he thundered out this he made a rush at Bildad, but with a marvellous oblique, sliding celerity, Bildad for that time eluded him.
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville

Not only all of the "Seven Sisters," but many other stars, can be seen twinkling among them.
— from Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments by Garrett Putman Serviss

“Oh, Julius, don’t let him carry me off,” said Carrie, beginning to cry.
— from Julius, the Street Boy; or, Out West by Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Here the marks of shoes could be detected in the soft earth.
— from Air Service Boys Over the Enemy's Lines; Or, The German Spy's Secret by Charles Amory Beach

The marks of service cannot be more degrading than service itself; and it is the mere chicane of philosophy to extend reform only to cuffs and collars, while we do not dispense with the services annexed to them.
— from A Residence in France During the Years 1792, 1793, 1794 and 1795, Complete Described in a Series of Letters from an English Lady: with General and Incidental Remarks on the French Character and Manners by Charlotte Biggs

Next the second troïka, in a mist of snow, could be seen the little old man making his way with long strides.
— from The Invaders, and Other Stories by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

She did go part o' the way, and then, when she found that Ted wouldn't send his mate off, she came back and, woman-like, said as 'ow she wasn't going to go 'ome just to please Charlie Brice.
— from Sailors' Knots (Entire Collection) by W. W. (William Wymark) Jacobs

Tintagel was visited, and no part of mountain or sea consecrated by the legends of Arthur was left unexplored.
— from The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by John Forster