The same reasoning will apply to the indefinite number of supposed indemonstrable truths exempted from the profane approach of philosophic investigation by the amiable Beattie, and other less eloquent and not more profound inaugurators of common sense on the throne of philosophy; a fruitless attempt, were it only that it is the two-fold function of philosophy to reconcile reason with common sense, and to elevate common sense into reason.
— from Biographia Literaria by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

But as I said, On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
— from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

History told of little else; and not one rebel defection--not even Robert E. Lee's--cost young Adams a personal pang; but Sumner's struck home.
— from The Education of Henry Adams by Henry Adams

But, as I said, On Lammas Eve at night shall she be fourteen; That shall she, marry; I remember it well.
— from The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

Villiers may henceforth be regarded as fairly launched in his career; it was perhaps his misfortune that so few important obstacles occurred in his progress, and that it was achieved by an apparent concurrence of lucky events, and not by patient merit, nor by any of the legitimate sources of success.
— from The life and times of George Villiers, duke of Buckingham, Volume 1 (of 3) From original and authentic sources by Thomson, A. T., Mrs.

‘Pilgrim-day,’ wherever kept, is a New England festival; ‘Evacuation-day’ belongs to the city of New York; the anniversary of the battle of Bunker Hill is celebrated only in Charlestown; and the victory on Lake Erie, at Newport, where its hero resided.
— from The Collector Essays on Books, Newspapers, Pictures, Inns, Authors, Doctors, Holidays, Actors, Preachers by Henry T. (Henry Theodore) Tuckerman

A chopping sea prevails off Crete, and whether one leaves Europe at Naples, Brindisi, or Athens, one's steamer soon reaches that beautiful island, and consumes in passing it an amount of time which is an ever-fresh surprise.
— from Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu by Constance Fenimore Woolson

"Home," to Burke, had always meant a place of peace and rest, of luxurious ease and noiseless servants, of orderly rooms and well-served meals, of mellow lights and softly blended colors.
— from The Road to Understanding by Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter

Nora had gone off, and as her sister and Priscilla sat leaning against their hillocks with their backs to the road, she could be seen standing now on one little eminence and now on another, thinking, doubtless, as she stood on the one how good it would be to be Lady Peterborough, and, as she stood on the other, how much better to be Mrs. Hugh Stanbury.
— from He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope

Well may the old ladies exclaim (and no doubt, Mr. Bull, thou hast a penchant for displaying thy Latinity)
— from Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle by Anonymous

Even if we were to suppose that all of the items listed by Lebius were based on facts, every more or less educated and not entirely brutish person would surely have to ask himself, whether the publication of such things was permissable according to the law or the moral codex of the press.
— from My Life and My Efforts by Karl May

It is a bad omen for a hen to cackle or lay eggs at night.
— from The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India, Volume 3 by R. V. (Robert Vane) Russell

I spent the whole of last evening at Nevill's Court.
— from The Vanishing Man A Detective Romance by R. Austin (Richard Austin) Freeman