There was no untried refuge left for a moment's shelter from the terrible truth.
— from Silas Marner by George Eliot

Eius autem vinculum est ratio et oratio, quae docendo, discendo, communicando, disceptando, iudicando conciliat inter se homines coniungitque naturali quadam societate; neque ulla re longius absumus a natura ferarum, in quibus inesse fortitudinem saepe dicimus, ut in equis, in leonibus, iustitiam, aequitatem, bonitatem non dicimus; sunt enim rationis et orationis expertes.
— from De Officiis by Marcus Tullius Cicero

The population of the Llanmadoc region of Gower are generally English by ancestry and speech; and not until reaching Llanmorlais, beyond Llanridian, did I find anything like an original Celtic and Welsh-speaking people, and these may have come into that part within comparatively recent times; and yet, as the above place-names tend to prove, in early days all these regions must have been Welsh.
— from The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries by W. Y. (Walter Yeeling) Evans-Wentz

When near us rush light sledge and note of information ahead to overhaul us.
— from The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club by Robert E. (Robert Edwin) Peary

He led us into a small, though no untidy room, lighted by a pine torch.
— from Marie; a story of Russian love by Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin

Next morning, the engine proving still refractory, we floated down to the Chillicothe bridge, which was sighted about 11 a. m. This day was rainy and the new unpainted roof let in the water freely.
— from The Houseboat Book: The Log of a Cruise from Chicago to New Orleans by W. F. (William Francis) Waugh

She'd say to herself, 'Here's a queer old chap with money, half off his nut, and not under restraint; let's make hay before they lock him up.'
— from The Man Who Found Himself (Uncle Simon) by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole

It was not until relatively late that the highest cultural development of the mother country followed upon that of these outposts of Greek culture.
— from Elements of Folk Psychology Outline of a Psychological History of the Development of Mankind by Wilhelm Max Wundt

We have seen monarchical unity and national unity rising, little by little, out of and above the feudal system, which had been the first result of barbarians settling upon the ruins of the Roman empire.
— from A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2 by François Guizot

“Reverend Father, of course I—should be glad; only——” “Only the Director of a theological seminary does not usually receive lay penitents?
— from The Gadfly by E. L. (Ethel Lillian) Voynich