While some claim that to his improved method of studying nature are chiefly to be attributed the prodigious strides taken by modern science, others deny him all merit in this respect.
— from Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ghosts repine at violated night, And curse th’ invading sun, and sicken at the sight.
— from The Aeneid by Virgil

So it demands that this ceremony, which it cannot do without, be repeated every time that it is necessary, and consequently, that the movements, a condition of its success, be executed regularly: it imposes them as an obligation.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim

Theodosius, who was acquainted with the merit and power of his new ally, condescended to meet him at the distance of several miles from Constantinople; and entertained him in the Imperial city, with the confidence of a friend, and the magnificence of a monarch.
— 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

He opened the balcony window, looked out, saw nothing and closed the window again.
— from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

But it is in their domestic circle that manners are best seen [122]; where restraint is thrown aside, and no authority controls the freedom of expression.
— from Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, v. 1 of 3 or the Central and Western Rajput States of India by James Tod

[4105] Henricus Ayrerus in a consultation for a melancholy person, would have him take as few purges as he could, because there be no such medicines, which do not steal away some of our strength, and rob the parts of our body, weaken nature, and cause that cacochymia, which [4106] Celsus and others observe, or ill digestion, and bad juice through all the parts of it.
— from The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton

If not, we cannot see why they may not allow Catholics the same indulgence which they concede to sinners, heretics, and infidels.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 07, April 1868 to September, 1868 by Various

I shall not speak anything to the manner of his repeating of the quarters towards which the gates do look; why he should begin at the east, then to the north, afterwards crossing to the south, and last to the west; though I do verily think that the Holy Ghost hath something to show us, wherefore he doth thus set them forth.
— from Works of John Bunyan — Complete by John Bunyan

But, in common with all eminently poetic minds, Nodier always confused the dream with the ideal, and the ideal with the material world; for Nodier, every fancy of his imagination really existed—Thérèse Aubert, la Fée aux miettes, Inès de las Sierras—he lived in the midst of all these creations of his genius, and never sultan had a more magnificent harem.
— from My Memoirs, Vol. III, 1826 to 1830 by Alexandre Dumas

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— from With Force and Arms: A Tale of Love and Salem Witchcraft by Howard Roger Garis

That could easily be managed, for we could so arrange as to halt for the night near a cathedral town, and if we were a little late starting off the next day, it would not so much matter, our time being our own.
— from Toilers of Babylon: A Novel by B. L. (Benjamin Leopold) Farjeon

In the last decade of his life he conceived a new and complicated theory respecting the origin of the American people, or rather the origin of Europeans and Asiatics from America, made known to the world in his Quatre Lettres .
— from The Native Races [of the Pacific states], Volume 2, Civilized Nations The Works of Hubert Howe Bancroft, Volume 2 by Hubert Howe Bancroft

Almost stifled by emotion, he put this poor relic of his country into his bosom, and remounting his noble animal, crossed the bridge.
— from Thaddeus of Warsaw by Jane Porter

They have now another claim to my regard.
— from A Boy of Old Japan by R. (Robert) Van Bergen

As for our gallant host, I never saw such spirits; he is a fine old grey-headed blow-hard of fifty odd, talking English like a native, and combining the frank open-hearted cordiality of a sailor with that graceful winning gaiety peculiar to Frenchmen.
— from Letters from High Latitudes Being Some Account of a Voyage in 1856 of the Schooner Yacht "Foam" to Iceland, Jan Meyen, and Spitzbergen by Dufferin and Ava, Frederick Temple Blackwood, Marquis of