Burton’s Magazine paid his price for five essays, and the remaining four, at the same rate, were snapped up by Mackintosh’s Monthly, The Northern Review being too poor to stand the pace.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

She went so far as to imagine Martin proposing, herself putting the words into his mouth; and she rehearsed her refusal, tempering it with kindness and exhorting him to true and noble manhood.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London

Many persons, having perfect [116] eyes, are blind in their perceptions.
— from The World I Live In by Helen Keller

We might, probably, have passed all the morning thus sociably, but for the entrance of a farmer, who came to solicit advice concerning some domestic affairs.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

Thus measuring things in Heav’n by things on Earth At thy request, and that thou maist beware By what is past, to thee I have reveal’d What might have else to human Race bin hid; The discord which befel, and Warr in Heav’n Among th’ Angelic Powers, and the deep fall Of those too high aspiring, who rebelld With Satan , hee who envies now thy state, Who now is plotting how he may seduce Thee also from obedience, that with him Bereavd of happiness thou maist partake His punishment, Eternal miserie; Which would be all his solace and revenge, As a despite don against the most High, Thee once to gaine Companion of his woe.
— from Paradise Lost by John Milton

mundbeorg m. protecting hill , PPs 124 2 .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall

When he had completed my portrait he painted for me a beautiful St. Catherine of the same size, and a clever Venetian jeweller made the ring, the bezel of which shewed only the sainted virgin; but a blue spot, hardly visible on the white enamel which surrounded it, corresponded with the secret spring which brought out my portrait, and the change was obtained by pressing on the blue spot with the point of a pin.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

If the three companions of my charmer had had anything attractive about them, I might possibly have persevered and defied misfortune; but in the same measure as beauty cheers my heart, ugliness depresses it.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

[The Muse of the Department.] PIEDEFER (Silas), son of Abraham Piedefer, and younger brother of the preceding; did not receive, as did Moise Piedefer, his part of the small paternal fortune; went to the Indies; died, about 1837, in New York, with a fortune of twelve hundred thousand francs.
— from Repertory of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A — Z by Anatole Cerfberr

Mr. Philip H. Pax on, of Camden, N. J., has patented a machine that will cut lozenges in a perfect manner, and will not be clogged by the gum and sugar of the lozenge dough.
— from Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. by Various

For a day and a night Love sang to us, played with us, Folded us round from the dark and the light; And our hearts were fulfilled of the music he made with us, Made with our hearts and our lips while he stayed with us, Stayed in mid passage his pinions from flight For a day and a night.
— from Poems & Ballads (Second Series) Swinburne's Poems Volume III by Algernon Charles Swinburne

Mr. Pepys has paid particular attention to this point, and in his valuable "Genealogy of the Pepys Family" (1887) he has collected seventeen varieties of spelling of the name, which are as follows, the dates of the documents in which the form appears being attached: 1. Pepis (1273); 2. Pepy (1439); 3. Pypys (1511); 4. Pipes (1511); 5. Peppis (1518); 6. Peppes (1519);
— from Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life by Samuel Pepys

The main purpose he put before.himself was to produce an economic revival in Spain by abolishing internal custom-houses, throwing open the trade of the Indies and reorganizing the finances.
— from The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

Had he remained, I should most probably have poured forth all my suspicion, all my hate; dragged by violence from his lips the confession of his wrong, and from his heart the last atonement for it.
— from Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story by William Gilmore Simms

About a league from Campos the country abounds with an arboreous species of Jatropha , with small white flowers, and sinuate leaves not unlike those of the holly, only larger; the footstalks of the leaves are furnished with a few long pointed prickles, and without being aware of their nature, I laid hold of a branch to collect a few specimens, but had no sooner done so than my whole hand felt as if it had been dipped into boiling oil, caused by the venom of the [180] prickles which in many places had punctured the skin, and it was intolerably painful for several hours; on my next attempt I was more cautious, and succeeded in obtaining a few specimens.
— from Travels in the Interior of Brazil Principally through the northern provinces, and the gold and diamond districts, during the years 1836-1841 by George Gardner

"My portmanteau," he pointed out, "which, as you have doubtless already ascertained from the hall-porter, came back with me the night before last.
— from Aaron Rodd, Diviner by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

The arrival at Naples was much less terrible than many persons had pictured it to Irma and Aunt Caroline.
— from Irma in Italy: A Travel Story by Helen Leah Reed

ei de kai synepinoêsais autê ta parakeimena || 164 splanchna kathaper tini lebêti megalô pyros hestias pollas, ek dexiôn men to hêpar, ex aristerôn de ton splêna, tên kardian
— from Galen: On the Natural Faculties by Galen