To be a poet, he says: to have heard the gold-snooded Muses sing: is the highest happiness a mortal can know; he is mindful of the soul, the Poet-creator in every man, and pays it magnificent tribute; he acknowledges what glory, what bliss, have been his own; but not the poet, he says, not even he, may enjoy the commonplace happiness of feeling secure against dark fate.
— from The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris

It may seem surprising that Caesar does not express himself more energetically against the right claimed by the senate; but he would certainly have spoken in vain, for it was every senator’s interest that the power of the senate should be recognised in its greatest extent, even though it should not be exercised in every particular case.
— from C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino by Sallust

Now it seems extremely improbable that so practised and expert an anatomist should have been deceived, especially upon a point which would naturally excite his most earnest and undivided attention.
— from An Introduction to Entomology: Vol. 4 or Elements of the Natural History of the Insects by William Kirby

He also wrote two historical novels, entitled “Hoel Mar en Morven” and “Provost of Paris,” and compiled one of those harmless volumes entitled “Leisure Hours.”
— from The Brownings, Their Life and Art by Lilian Whiting

Only in Scott's first and Shackleton's "Nimrod" Expedition had men ever come thus far.
— from South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron

Somehow or other, nobody likes the landlord's food, and nobody ever has money enough along to pay the fine.
— from Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs

So tedious was the march that when the troops halted for the night, Ewell had made eight miles, Hill only two, and the latter was still eighteen miles from Culpeper.
— from Stonewall Jackson and the American Civil War by G. F. R. (George Francis Robert) Henderson